Blending
into Lesson Design
Cathie Gillner
Mobile Device Teacher
Dorseyville Middle School
Fox Chapel Area School District
Catherine_Gillner@cl.fcasd.edu
https://goo.gl/gNGwMW
@cgillni
DESCRIPTION:
Did you know that BrainPOP is more than a movie and a quiz? If you have a subscription or not, you will learn the latest tips and tricks on all that BrainPOP offers for your daily lessons. Concept mapping, primary sources, gaming, & playful assessments are all at your fingertips with minimal effort in planning. Learn what all the Beep is about!
Objectives:
Explore the features in BrainPOP
Create a lesson to enhance a current subject/lesson you are teaching
Find specific support materials including videos, step guides and printables available
The BrainPOP logo in the left hand corner will take you to the home page
Find:
Search Feature
Search for games and movies.
Great as research starter for students.
Subject
Unit
Topic
Organization
Breadcrumb
Watch the Movie
See related movies and find lesson ideas in BrainPOP Educators
Why you should watch a video several times?
Quiz Feature
Classic Mode - Finish the quiz before you see the results
Review Mode - Answer correctly to move to the next question
Note - You can submit your results on Classic and Review
Printed Quiz - Print out a copy of the quiz
Create Your Own Quiz - through My BrainPOP Quiz Mixer
Make-A-Map (Concept Mapping)
Transform information into knowledge by making meaningful connections.
Sortify
Categorize and sort information from BrainPOP movies into bins representing key concepts.
Time Zone X
Students use their knowledge of history, understanding of cause and effect and historical themes, and context clues to place events related to BrainPOP movies onto a timeline in the proper order.
Meaning of the Beep
Students use context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. This game was designed to improve students' vocabulary, grammar, and language skills through increasing their facility with concept clues.
GameUp
BrainPOP offers game-based learning lesson plans, research on games for learning, game making tools, student-made games, and more to support game-based-learning (GBL) using GameUp.
FYI
Extend student knowledge with the FYI section featuring extras about the topic. Perfect for enrichment or additional research.
Activities
Activity pages contain worksheets for students to submit online. Many topics may also contain a Primary Source for additional study.
Type Primary Sources in the search feature to see a list of Topics.
Challenge
The BrainPOP Challenge is an interactive exercise that tests student knowledge of a BrainPOP topic. Each topic has a Challenge that contains four of eight possible tasks.
Make- A -Movie
BETA
Subscription Only
Create your own BrainPOP style movie.
Creative Coding
BrainPOP Educators
Free Trial Code:
www.bpopne.ws/mbptrial