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BrainPOP
Create personalized assignments that drive meaningful, active learning. BrainPOP’s animated movies give each student equal access to key background knowledge, while accompanying learning activities improve students’ essential literacy skills and encourage them to show what they know in creative ways.
All BrainPOP classrooms drive measurable learning outcomes. Whether you're teaching right angles or the Wright Brothers, you're building students' background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
Through short, information packed "topic movies", BrainPOP engages learners via narrative, humor, and characters who speak in a voice kids can relate to, encouraging self-directed learning and further exploration of the world around them.
What makes BrainPOP movies Unique? Read moreMovies Pause Points - an Interactive, Active Learning experience, Read more
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Create personalized assignments that drive meaningful, active learning.
BrainPOP’s animated movies give each student equal access to key background knowledge, while accompanying learning activities improve students’ essential literacy skills and encourage them to show what they know in creative ways.
At the heart of every BrainPOP lesson is a movie—with relatable, humorous characters—that helps students of all levels build key background knowledge and expand their vocabulary.
Each BrainPOP movie also includes Pause Point questions that make the movie-watching experience an active one—with real learning outcomes—by increasing student motivation, engagement, and comprehension.
Quizzes include drag-and-drop, multiple-select, and other technology-enhanced question types to help students demonstrate their understanding of the movie—while also preparing them for assessments and engaging their literacy skills in a low-stakes way.
High-interest texts—which teachers have the option to assign at three levels of complexity—connect to the topic's movie and deepen background knowledge while practicing comprehension skills.
After watching the movie, students dive deep into a powerful selection of relevant and conceptual Tier 2 words, using context clues and word parts to uncover their meaning—helping them better understand the movie, the topic, and the world as a whole.
Give students more opportunities to flex their higher order critical and creative skills.
Creative Tools like movie-making and coding to help students show what they know in their own unique way.
Power up any subject with Essential Literacy Skills
With every BrainPOP learning experience, students are building the key literacy skills that are essential to meeting your curriculum standards. Literacy skills are critical for learning in all parts of the curriculum and serve as a prerequisite for academic and long-term career success.
Reading Comprehension
Writing
Language Arts
Start with Creating a Student Account!
Creating Student Accounts:https://help.brainpop.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027825691-School-Admin-Create-Student-Accounts
The BrainPOP Assignment Builderhttps://help.brainpop.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027827271-Create-Assignments
The Best Lesson You’ll Ever Teach is Tomorrow’s with BrainPOP’s New Insights Reports
Imagine entering your classroom tomorrow with multiple data points about your students’ recent performance. You’d know exactly how to adapt your lesson to deepen their understanding!
When you log in to BrainPOP’s Insights Reports, you gain a detailed understanding of each student’s real-time progress and performance, ensuring that each lesson is thoughtfully designed to meet your students exactly where they are in their learning journey.
Identify Skill Gaps: Quickly identify individual skill gaps so you know which students to check in with during independent work time to meet them exactly where they are.
Monitor Student Engagement: Solve the problem of work completed too quickly, or assignments missed altogether, and work to ensure active participation.
Reinforce Content Knowledge: Identify areas where students lack context, and individualize instruction by assigning relevant BrainPOP lessons.
Complete Error Analysis: The bar graph in this report lets you visualize students’ answer choices so that you can pinpoint exactly what they misunderstand.
Understand Student Thinking: Question details offer insights into students’ thought processes and common misconceptions so that you can adapt more effectively.
Navigate Multiple Data Points: Streamline your review with the question navigation feature, which lets you navigate across questions that address the same standard.
Utilize Current Levels: Differentiate reading assignments confidently by understanding which students may need additional support or new challenges.
Reinforce Literacy Skills: This report makes prioritizing literacy simple. Find which skills students struggle with to know what to incorporate into your instruction.
Work with Colleagues: No one teacher can be responsible for literacy outcomes. Identify trends across student groups, and divide and conquer interventions.
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