Tools and Features Support
BrainPOP offers a variety of tools and other resources to help students build knowledge, apply and assess understanding, and extend and deepen learning on topics across the curriculum.
For support using BrainPOP ELL, watch these support screencasts for each tool and feature.
To meet various instructional and student needs, including synchronous/asynchronous learning, differentiation, and language development, review our strategies for modifying BrainPOP tools and features.
Build Background
Students build background knowledge through BrainPOP’s clear explanations, meaningful images, and fun, character driven animation. Foundational background knowledge enables students to practice higher order thinking and essential ELA skills across all topics.
Movies
Short, humorous animations bring to life topics across the curriculum.
Related Reading
High-interest, informational texts extend understanding of a topic and support key reading strategies.
Primary Source
First-hand artifacts and related activities that prompt examination, analysis, and interpretation.
Creative Tools
When students create, they generate, plan, and produce, authentically showing what they know about a BrainPOP topic and further applying essential English Language Arts skills.
Make-a-Movie
Movie-making tool that provides access to BrainPOP’s library of images, text, and animations.
Make-a-Map
Concept mapping tool that prompts for meaningful connections between concepts using images, keywords, and clips from the movie.
Creative Coding
Topic-related coding projects offered in both text- and block-based coding languages.
Looking for more?
Draw About It, Write About It, and Talk About It on BrainPOP Jr. offer different modes of creative response for every type of learner.
Assessment
When students interact with content, through games, quizzes, and other activities, they apply, analyze, and evaluate, seamlessly allowing for playful assessment opportunities.
Quiz & Quiz Mixer
Interactive quiz questions many of which engage higher-order thinking skills. Quiz Mixer allows creation of customized quizzes targeting specific content or skills.
Challenge
Interactive tasks that playfully assess knowledge while offering practice with test-taking skills.
Word Play
Interactive vocabulary activities with prompts to draw, write, and act out words highlighted in the BrainPOP Jr. movie.
Looking for more?
BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. offer printable Activities to extend learning.
