A couple of weeks ago I learned about a great teaching tool during a professional development day at our district.
It’s called BrainPop.
Not sure why I hadn’t heard of it before as it has won several awards.
BrainPop is series of short online animated educational videos (roughly 5 minutes each) on basically ANY topic for ANY grade level.
As an 8th grade social studies teacher I started using BrainPop to introduce new units – as a means to spark interest and tap into students’ prior knowledge.
However, what I really love about BrainPop is using it at home with my 7 year-old son – he just loves Moby (the robot host of the show).
This is truly a great tool for both teachers AND parents.
You can find out more about BrainPop here:
www.BrainPop.com
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I am currently substituting and I had a long term assignment for 7th grade Physical Science class.
I used the Brainpop to help me with my lessons and even create a teat for the students at the end of the unit. The Brainpop was extremely helpful and even helped me gerenerate moer substitute positions.