Diseases, Injuries, and Conditions Lesson Plan: Raising Health Awareness

August 22, 2011
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students take part in a hands-on activity to explore the difference between disease...

BrainPOP’s GameUp: Using “Guts and Bolts” as a Teaching Tool

June 25, 2012
This video documents a play testing session for BrainPOP's GameUP science game, "Guts and Bolts," while providing tips and tricks for teache...

Cancer Lesson Plan

February 6, 2020
This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Cancer, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each sec...

Make-a-Map Templates

September 21, 2016
Template descriptions and tips for how to use...

Tips and Activities for Using Phet Simulations

June 23, 2016
Following are activity suggestions and tips from PhET to use in conjunction with the interactive simulations. Creating PhET Interactive S...

Using SnapThought®

September 16, 2015
This screencast provides a brief overview of the SnapThought® tool....

Setting Cooperative Gaming Expectations

January 1, 2013
If you are allowing students to cooperatively play an educational game, make sure you go over expectations for being a good cooperative gami...

STEM Skills Lesson Plan: STEM to the Rescue!

October 27, 2008
In this STEM Skills lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students use BrainPOP and other online resources to research a science, engineer...

Getting Creative: Scientific Illustrations & Other Projects

January 23, 2013
All the way from Shanghai, we welcome Laura Brown, a high school science teacher, for this webinar on scientific illustrations and other cre...