Brain Pop is an ideal 2.0 Tool to use in your classroom. There is a free trial, however you will have to pay ( 9.95 per month) once the trial is over. This site contains 8 subjects. Subjects such as English, Math, Technology, Health, just to name a few. These subjects are designed for grades three (3) through twelve (12). Each subject has many animated movies. Once you choose your subject and activity you can show it on your smart board for whole class or on individual computers. You can pause and ask questions as well as check for understanding. Each animated activity contains a quiz. My class always enjoy taking the quiz. It keeps them engaged while focused on the selected standard or objective. Brain Pop includes a state standard tool which can help you match your selected standard. For individual centers, student are able to follow up with a variety of activities for clarity of the standard. This is great, helps to monitor student's understanding.
This 2.0 tool also contains an educators' portal and video tutorials. This includes event news, lesson plans, academic standards, curriculum calendar features, resource, training videos, link to face book and more. It also offers closed captions for each movie. This is great to help the struggling reader. It also offers worksheets to use with the selected standard.
Tim and Toby always introduce the concept. Children may get bored with the same introducing characters. The variety of activities however, will keep the students engaged.
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