Tools and Features Support
BrainPOP invites students to discover, play, and create, enriching and deepening their understanding of topics across the curriculum. Explore how each BrainPOP tool and feature expands students capacity to learn and teachers to teach.
Create
When students create, they generate, plan, and produce, authentically showing what they know about a BrainPOP topic.
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.
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Draw About It, Write About It, and Talk About It on BrainPOP Jr. offer different modes of creative response for every type of learner.
Play
When students interact with content, through games, quizzes, and other activities, they apply, analyze, and evaluate, seamlessly allowing for playful assessment opportunities.
GameUp
A collection of high quality learning games, each paired with support resources and best practices.
Challenge
Interactive tasks that playfully assess knowledge while offering practice with test-taking skills.
Primary Source
First-hand artifacts and related activities that prompt examination, analysis, and interpretation.
Word Play
Interactive vocabulary activities with prompts to draw, write, and act out words highlighted in the BrainPOP Jr. movie.
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.
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BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. offer printable Activities to extend learning.
Discover
When students discover new information through simple, clear explanations, meaningful images, and fun, catchy animation, they naturally begin building knowledge by remembering and understanding.
