Classroom Activities: Elements of Art

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These classroom activities are designed to complement the Elements of Art topic on BrainPOP Jr. Color, Value, and Mood How can color and value change the mood of a piece of art? Have students crea...
BrainPOP Sound Effects

BrainPOP Sound Effects

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From Moby's famous "Beep Beep" to the tell tale "POP" that you hear every time you load our homepage or app, these BrainPOP sound effects add a new dimension of BrainPOPpiness to your work!  What fun ...

Make Your Own BrainPOP Animation

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Interested in making your own BrainPOP animation? Emily Smith leads "The Hive Society" a 5th grade Language Arts teacher at Cunningham Elementary in Austin TX. This year alone her student "scholars" h...
Video game design

STEAM Video Game Design: Tales From Students in the Field!

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Peek into a STEAM video game design lab with POPstar David Conover and some of his Pflugerville, TX students. They’ll share their unique experiences developing a “Circuit of Sustainability” and collab...

BrainPOP and Project-based Learning- A Perfect Match

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Guest blogger Donna Adams Román shares her approach to project-based learning with the use of BrainPOP. Inspiring independent thinking is a challenge all teachers face. It requires some intentional...

3D Printing Lesson Plan: Make Your Own Moby

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In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students use BrainPOP resources to explore 3D printing. Students will learn what 3D printers can and cannot do and sketch a useful object that t...
Chocolate

Chocolate

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Yum! Learn all about chocolate in this student-made, BrainPOP-inspired video by PJ Burns' and Erin Waggoner's 3rd graders in Nicholasville, Kentucky....
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Making Student BrainPOP Videos – First Grade Teacher Lauren Bounds Shares her Process

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Lauren Bounds is a 1st Grade teacher at the Thackston School in Knoxville, TN. In this guest blog post, Lauren tells the story of using BrainPOP as inspiration for making a solar system movie with her...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Student Animation Movie

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This student animation about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proves that BrainPOP is way more than a movie and a quiz: BrainPOP can also be used as inspiration for student animation projects! This animatio...
Moby Exercising

Moby Exercising: RUN, MOBY, RUN!

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Art work based on the BrainPOP Jr. movie, Exercise! 1st graders used Kerpoof to draw Moby exercising after we watched the movie Exercising. By Liz Gatewood's KCD's 1st graders....