educational games for girls

EdWeb Webinar: Educational Games for Girls – Collaboration and Context

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This Thursday, January 10 at 4pm ET,  join our friends at EdWeb for a compelling webinar. Presenters: Victoria Van Voorhis, Founder & CEO, Second Avenue Software, and  Jayne C. Lammers, Assistan...
Pavlov's dog game

Teaching Conditioned Reflexes with the Pavlov’s Dog Game

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Can you train a dog to drool on command? Find out in the Pavlov's Dog game in BrainPOP's GameUp! Show your students the Conditioning movie, then let them explore conditioned reflexes through game p...
game design

Guest Blogger Steve Isaacs Shares Tales from the Game Design Classroom

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Guest Blogger and BrainPOP Educator Steve Isaacs share his methods for incorporating game design into his classroom.  You can find the post in its original form on Steve's blog, games and learning. ...
treefrog treasure

New Game on GameUp: Center for Game Science presents “Treefrog Treasure”

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The Center for Game Science (CGS) is part of the department of computer science at the University of Washington. We’re made up of a group of designers, software engineers, artists, and students, inclu...
Global Education Conference

Global Education Conference #Globaled12 Continues!

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BrainPOP is thrilled to be a sponsor of one of the most innovative professional development conferences to hit the web!  The 3rd annual Global Education Conference is a free 5 day, 24/7, 300+ session ...
beta testers

And the Gold Award Winner is. . . . Guts and Bolts!

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Just like Jamaican running superstar Usain Bolt crossed the finish line for a gold at the Olympics- "Guts and Bolts" - one of BrainPOP's own games on GameUp - is now a gold award winner all its own! T...
New Media Consortium

New Media Consortium Loves GameUp!

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The New Media Consortium, authors of the esteemed and widely referenced Horizon Reports, provides an authoritative voice about all things education and technology. Therefore we were thrilled to see a ...
Lesson Plan Contest

Game-Based Learning Lesson Plan Contest

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Filament Games, the developers of GameUp games You Make Me Sick, Cell Command, and Crazy Plant Shop, is hosting a lesson plan contest! They are looking for educators who are supporters of game-based l...
ISTE

Guest Blogger Rachael Tarshes’s ISTE Playground Recap

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8th Grade Science teacher, guest blogger, and superstar BrainPOP Educator Rachael Tarshes joined the BrainPOP team in San Diego to share her strategies for game-based learning at the ISTE Playground. ...
Teaching with Games Webinar

Teaching with Games, GLPC Case Study: Lisa

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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative about teaching with games. They conducted a series of case studies and a national survey, Te...