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From Jazz to Fractions: How to Connect Any BrainPOP Topic to Your Curriculum

One movie can become millions of teachable moments. Learn how a single BrainPOP topic becomes a web of cross-curricular connections from Jazz to Sound to Fractions to the Great Depression.

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You'll practice "six degrees of separation" thinking and leave with easy routines you can use the next day to unlock unexpected connections in your own content area.

From Patterns to Point of View: How to Connect Any BrainPOP Jr. Topic to Your Curriculum

One movie can become millions of teachable moments. Learn how a single BrainPOP Jr. topic becomes a web of cross-curricular connections from Collage to Patterns to Points of View to the Rural/Suburban/Urban.

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You'll practice "six degrees of separation" thinking and leave with easy routines you can use the next day to unlock unexpected connections in your own content area.
 

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BrainPOP Beyond the Screen

Building background knowledge with a BrainPOP movie doesn't mean kids stay glued to devices. See how a 5-minute movie becomes the jumping-off point for 45 minutes of hands-on instruction, discussion, and collaboration.

Learn offline and printable strategies (both built into BrainPOP and invented by real teachers) that turn animation into the start of learning, not the entirety of it.

Why Animation Sticks: Active Viewing That Builds Critical Thinking

How else do you show light refracting off a raindrop or DNA sequencing in real time? Animation explains complex concepts in ways other teaching strategies simply can't. 

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In this hands-on session, you'll experience why animation works across every subject, and walk away with active viewing strategies that strengthen comprehension and build habits for questioning and evaluating information.

How to Build Your Classroom Community with BrainPOP and ClassDojo

Classroom community, connection, and critical thinking don't exist in isolation. When students feel like they belong, they're more willing to share ideas.

Walk away with easy, practical strategies that bring BrainPOP and ClassDojo into your classroom routine to build the kind of classroom where community and learning grow together, not separately.

Tales from the Field: How Real Teachers Use BrainPOP

Hear directly from classroom teachers who use BrainPOP every day.

Our Certified BrainPOP Educators (CBEs) will share the routines and strategies that have become part of their teaching rhythm (the ones they rely on again and again) and show you how to make them work easily in your own classroom.

How to Build Your Classroom Community with BrainPOP and ClassDojo (Booth 1917)

Classroom community, connection, and critical thinking don't exist in isolation. When students feel like they belong, they're more willing to share ideas.

Walk away with easy, practical strategies that bring BrainPOP and ClassDojo into your classroom routine to build the kind of classroom where community and learning grow together, not separately.

Why Animation Sticks: Active Viewing That Builds Critical Thinking

How else do you show light refracting off a raindrop or DNA sequencing in real time? Animation explains complex concepts in ways other teaching strategies simply can't.

In this hands-on session, you'll experience why animation works across every subject, and walk away with active viewing strategies that strengthen comprehension and build habits for questioning and evaluating information.
 

From Jazz to Fractions: How to Connect Any BrainPOP Topic to Your Curriculum

One movie can become millions of teachable moments. Learn how a single BrainPOP topic becomes a web of cross-curricular connections from Jazz to Sound to Fractions to the Great Depression.

You'll practice "six degrees of separation" thinking and leave with easy routines you can use the next day to unlock unexpected connections in your own content area.
 

Tales from the Field: How Real Teachers Use BrainPOP

Hear directly from classroom teachers who use BrainPOP every day.

Our Certified BrainPOP Educators (CBEs) will share the routines and strategies that have become part of their teaching rhythm (the ones they rely on again and again) and show you how to make them work easily in your own classroom.

BrainPOP Beyond the Screen

Building background knowledge with a BrainPOP movie doesn't mean kids stay glued to devices. See how a 5-minute movie becomes the jumping-off point for 45 minutes of hands-on instruction, discussion, and collaboration.

Learn offline and printable strategies (both built into BrainPOP and invented by real teachers) that turn animation into the start of learning, not the entirety of it.

Making Digital Citizenship Skills a Year-Long Routine

Being a good digital citizen is part of being a good learner. Questioning sources, verifying information, and creating responsibly aren't separate skills, they're how students engage with the world.

See why BrainPOP is built to bring these skills into your classroom naturally, and practice quick routines that weave digital citizenship into your curriculum without adding to your plate.

Cultivating Inquiry and Investigation with BrainPOP Science

Learn how to bring multi-dimensional science and engineering to life in your middle school classrooms with BrainPOP's newest platform, BrainPOP Science.