Activate: SnapThoughts for My BrainPOP
Have your students signed up for individual logins through My BrainPOP? If you have a school-wide subscription to BrainPOP, students will be able to use our SnapThought ® tool to play Activate.
The SnapThought tool allows students to capture meaningful moments in their game play with opportunities for brief written reflection. To use the tool, start by making sure students are logged into My BrainPOP with their own individual accounts. Once students are logged in, the SnapThought tool will appear below any games that offer this capability.
During game play, students can click the SnapThought tool up to five times. A thumbnail, or “snapshot” is generated and stored on the bottom left of the screen. At any point in the game, students can click their snapshot(s), type a brief reflection, which may be a response to an open-ended prompt, and save or submit to the teacher’s account for you to review and respond to.
You can use the SnapThought tool to facilitate discussion around game play and strategies, or have students submit their snapshots to you for assessment or accountability. Here are a few ideas and prompts for using the SnapThought tool in Activate.
- Take a snapshot of the screen where the issues are presented. Which issue will you choose to support? Why?
- Take a snapshot of the “Choose a Task” screen. Think of at least one more activity that you might do in real life to spread awareness, raise funds or pursue leaders? Write it down, and talk about how it would contribute to your cause.
- Once your cause progresses to the local level, take a snapshot. How is supporting your cause at the local level different from supporting it at the personal level? What do you think will change as you move on to the state and national levels?
