Brain Pop

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing, Jennifer. Barinpop.com is a great tool in all subjects, like you said. My school purchased the license.

[Anonymous]

Hi I haven't used brain pop in years - thank you for reminding me - but "buy a license?" - Ill check that out.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing, Jennifer. I was wondering, is brain pop something that you feel is useful for the primary and middle grades? or do you think it would benefit high schoolers as well? I vaguely remember using it, but I remember when I taught middle school I had access to it because my school purchased the license and now that I teach high school we don't have access to it, so I haven't been able to see if it's worth the investment. If anyone else knows the answer, please let me know. I would like to advocate for as many useful resources for my students. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I love brain pop, it is a very fun resources I feel like it would be good for any grade level, even higher grades. In middle school I feel like the students would really get into it because they love playing games. The one game that I really enjoyed on here and thought would be useful for students to do was a timeline game, i think it was called timezone. The player was asked to place certain historical events in order, the events were all described and I really think this is great for classroom use!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reminder, some teachers in our social studies department used the program and students get bored when its overdone. For example, some special needs teachers used to take them to the lab and some got out of control. Another teacher would display the short video clips daily and the kids got bored fast. So, I guess it is a balance with everything and the license costs $1500?

[Anonymous]

I am very familiar with Brainpop and implementing it in the classroom. I have used the "Great Wall of China" clip to accommodate my visual and auditory learners. The short clip gives so much detail for students to learn about China's Great Wall in a matter of four minutes. There is a 10 question quiz that students just love to take after the clip. I usually divide students into groups and they have to write the answers down and at the end we all go over the quiz to reveal the correct answers. The group with the highest points correct wins a small rewards (tickets). Brainpop is very interactive with grades 5-8.

[Anonymous]

http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/geography/story/sto_set.html

This website has a quick intro to the origins and geography of China. Great introduction lesson to China!

[Anonymous]

[font=arial, sans-serif]"The Chinese lunar calendar dates back to the second millennium BCE. Unlike our calendar, which numbers the years progressively from a given time (the birth of Christ), the Chinese calendar is cyclical. Each cycle is made up of 12 years; after the 12th year, the cycle is repeated. The Chinese associate each year of a 12-year cycle with an animal and they refer to the years as "the year of the dragon," "the year of the ox," and so forth. The 12 animals and the years associated with them are often represented on a circular chart, and for this reason, they are known as animals of the zodiac." http://www.edsitement.com[/font%5D


https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/animals-chinese-zodiac


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[Anonymous]

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/following-great-wall-china#sect-introduction

Edsitement provides comprehensive lesson plans ready to teach. If you have never heard of this great source, I invite you to navigate and find great day-by-day lessons.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info! It seems like a great activity to use when exposing students to The Great Wall. Especially when it comes to reaching different styles of learning. The students love using Brain Pop!

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Brainpop.com is a great website to use for students in K-8th grades. It has a great inventory of videos for all subjects, ranging from science, math, art, English, health, history, geography, etc. The videos give great summaries on topics you search, and do so in an interesting way with two animated characters, called Tim and Moby (one is a robot, which students really seem to enjoy). Tim and Moby explain any topic in very simple terms, and highlight key vocabulary that is important. As the teacher, it is very easy to navigate and search for videos, simply type in the topic you want to search in the search engine at the top and results will come. BrainPop also offers downloadable handouts you can use with your students, such as graphic organizers, quizzes, and puzzles that connect to the videos. They also have brain pop videos to help support ESL students, and a Brain Pop Jr site for elementary students. I use Brainpop all the time to add visuals to the readings I have my students engage in and have used Brainpop videos when teaching on China, Communism, and Japan.

The link is as follows: http://www.brainpop.com.

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