If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram (@akbusybee) you might know that I am a tad bit obsessed with BrainPOP
There are SO many great features in BrainPOP that is more than the movie! I am going to be sharing some of my favorites throughout the summer on my blog!
If you have never heard of BrainPOP before-
"BrainPOP creates animated curriculum- based content that supports educators and engages students-in school, at home and on mobile devices. Our resources include movies, quizzes, games, mobile apps, experiments, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards including Common Core." https://www.brainpop.com/about/tour
One of my new favorite features is Make-A-Map
For the screenshots I using a Free Movie and have not signed in.. HOWEVER.. signing in allows you to do so much more (such as save your work and students can share it with their teacher or work on it at a later time)
"BrainPOP creates animated curriculum- based content that supports educators and engages students-in school, at home and on mobile devices. Our resources include movies, quizzes, games, mobile apps, experiments, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All content is aligned to and searchable by state standards including Common Core." https://www.brainpop.com/about/tour
One of my new favorite features is Make-A-Map
For the screenshots I using a Free Movie and have not signed in.. HOWEVER.. signing in allows you to do so much more (such as save your work and students can share it with their teacher or work on it at a later time)
With each BrainPOP movie there are tons of extras that are below the movie. Click on the Make-A-Map Feature
Once you have clicked on the Make-A-Map it pulls up the Concept Mapping Tool (did I mention that right now I am working on a Chromebook)
In this work space you have the movie, keyword, images and the ability to add extra nodes.
Students (or teachers- you could do this as a group) begin playing the movie. When they have found a piece that they want to add to the concept map they click on the camera button to snap a picture.
What the what! That piece is now on my Concept Map.. and even better.. by pushing the play button it takes you back to that part of the movie!
As you can see this is a fantastic tool, but an even better tool when a student can save it and work on it later and continue to add to it.
Ideas for the classroom:
- Summarizing information over a topic that has been discussed in class
- Researching a topic deeper
- Taking notes
As soon as I saw this tool I also thought about those special education students and the ELL students who we are always trying to reach. What a great way for a student to easily show what they are learning and also quickly and easily go back to review what they have done.
The videos replay in the work space, but so do the keywords!
Other great features:
- Connect the findings and add information in between
- change the color of the different nodes (how great would this for students to color code the word depending on what you are doing)
As I noted I am not currently signed in and using the free feature. Signing in allows SO much more!
-You can Add Movies! Often times when we are researching although we are looking at one topic, there are connections that can be made. By clicking on the add movie piece it brings up other movies that would be associated with current movie.
-You can save your work
-You can turn in your work!
Are you a BrainPOP or BrainPOPJr user? What are your favorite tools?
I will be sharing another one of my features next week!
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