With Make-a-Movie, students build their own BrainPOP-style animated movies—using BrainPOP images, their own drawings, or their own voice—to develop higher order thinking skills, make sense of what they’ve learned, and spark their creativity.
Continue Reading5 Ways Creative Coding Boosts Your Instruction on BrainPOP
Teachers love Creative Coding for a reason: in addition to helping you hit those computer literacy and ISTE computational thinking standards, it’s full of instructional benefits that’ll help your learners comprehend the content—while building their computational thinking skills.
Continue ReadingWhy Teaching About Civics Matters—No Matter What Subject You Teach
Teaching civics isn’t just a matter of teaching isolated concepts: it gives students the background knowledge and critical thinking skills to participate inside and outside the classroom.
Continue ReadingHow to Plan and Create a Lesson on BrainPOP Science
Whether you need a 10-minute differentiated activity or a full class’ worth of material, here’s an end-to-end breakdown of how to plan and assign your BrainPOP Science lesson.
Continue ReadingIntroducing BrainPOP (3-8)’s New-and-Improved Topic Page
We’ve reorganized (and added to!) the teacher topic page so you can get right to what matters most: teaching.
Continue ReadingHow to Build an Assignment on BrainPOP 3-8—and Why You Should
Assignment builder gives teachers the power to differentiate every lesson to ensure that students are learning in a way that is engaging, challenging, and accessible to them. Here’s how (and why) to assign a lesson on BrainPOP.
Continue ReadingHow BrainPOP Aligns with the Science of Reading
We at BrainPOP are all about making learning effective and digestible for all learners, so it should come as no surprise that we are also students of the Science of Reading.
Continue ReadingNew to BrainPOP: Back to School 2024
This back-to-school season, BrainPOP is getting Moby-sized new feature updates that’ll support learning at all levels and help track and celebrate student progress.
Continue ReadingNew to BrainPOP Science: Back to School 2024
This back-to-school season, BrainPOP Science is getting exciting updates that will support students and teachers alike.
Continue ReadingIt’s Okay to Pause: 5 Ways Pause Points Maximize Learning Impact
We chatted with Dr. Barbara Hubert to uncover the real power behind BrainPOP movies’ Pause Points: the feature, rooted in research-based learning science principles, that transform background-building from passive to active learning—with just a few clicks.
Continue Reading