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Apple Education Endorses Us!
BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. Added to Apple's Recommended Curriculum
Collections
If you're looking for great educational resources on Apple's newly launched Curriculum Solutions web
site, you'll see that we come highly recommended! We're thrilled to announce that Apple Education
has added both BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. to its Recommended Curriculum Collections. We're included in the Early Learning, Upper
Elementary, Middle and High School Language
Arts, and Middle and High School Science and Math categories.
New on BrainPOP: FYI
Check It Out!
We're proud to
introduce our new FYI feature, accessible from the topic pages
underneath our movies.
The FYI feature contains additional information about our topics, in a
format designed to promote reading comprehension. Each begins with a
new
Cassie
& Rita cartoon, then lets users navigate relevant category buttons
like topic-related careers; graphs and statistics; historical details;
trivia; and
more. See an example of our FYIs here!
The FYI feature has many applications. A few tips:
♦ Use the FYI for a class read-aloud.
♦ Have students create their own version of an FYI.
♦ After watching a BrainPOP movie, extend comprehension by encouraging the class to explore some of
the FYIs independently.
♦ Print out the FYI for students to share with their families at home.
Got an FYI Tip? We'd love to hear and share your ideas. Email us!
August Movies
New and Timely Movies
BrainPOP
♦ August
18: Women gained the right to
vote on this day in 1920, when Congress ratified the 19th amendment. Find out more in our Women's Suffrage movie.
♦ August
25: The Democratic
National Convention begins today in Denver, CO. Watch and learn with our Presidential Election
movie.
♦ August
28: Martin Luther King,
Jr.
gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington, D.C. today in 1963. Delve deeper with our movie
on this dynamic leader and the Civil Rights
Movement.
♦ August 29:
Three years ago today, the deadly Hurricane Katrina made landfall in
Louisiana and Mississippi. Our Hurricanes movie
helps explain the science of these dangerous and powerful storms.
BrainPOP Jr.
♦ Annie and Moby learn how to divide and conquer in the new movie about Making Equal
Groups.
♦ It's tea time! The water is boiling! Explore solids, liquids, and gases in Changing States of
Matter.
♦ Check out our Food Chain movie for a look at how living things find energy and rely on each other to survive.
BrainPOP at NECC
Highlights from San Antonio
Thank you to everyone who stopped by Booth 8074 at NECC - we loved meeting you and hearing what you had to say
about BrainPOP! We'd like to convey our deepest appreciation to the four educators who joined us at the conference:
Patrice Dawkins-Jackson and Lorraine Prince (Dunwoody Springs Charter School in Atlanta, GA); Robert Miller
(Port Orange Elementary School in Port Orange, FL); and Scott Walker (who teaches Arts & Humanities in Kentucky and blogs at TeacherTech). With incredible enthusiasm,
unwavering effort, and great humor, they
led demos in our booth throughout the day, presented on our behalf at our special events and our partner Promethean's booth, and helped answer
whatever questions you had. Patrice, Lorraine, Robert, and Scott: thank you!
Special Events
BrainPOP hosted
three dynamic workshops at the nearby Marriott Rivercenter. Our staff and BrainPOP educators ran sessions about integrating technology into science
lessons and labs; the tremendous impact BrainPOP and interactive whiteboards can have on science lessons; and the difference BrainPOP Jr. makes in
K-3 classrooms. At the Microsoft booth, a presentation on Project K-Nect - an innovative
initiative
that uses Smartphones to support 9th-grade students in rural North Carolina - touted BrainPOP as the pilot program's most popular resource. And in
his
presentation on English Language instruction, technology consultant Arturo
Guajardo, a facilitator for Austin ISD, recommended BrainPOP as an excellent tool for teaching English to non-native speakers.
The Winners Are ...
Congratulations to the winners of our "spotter" campaign!
Debbie Turner (Mobile, AL);
Joy Hatchett (Red Rock, OK); Sara Pennartz (Lewisville, TX); Michelle Jaekel (Arlington, VA);
Linda Downs (Floresville, TX); and Margaret Frick (Arlington, VA) will all receive School Combo subscriptions.
These lucky NECC attendees picked up BrainPOP t-shirts, wore them during the conference, and were then "spotted" by members of the
BrainPOP team. At the Promethean booth, Tanya Richard (New Orleans, LA) won a Premium School subscription
in Promethean's NECC game show.
See You Soon
Our busy conference schedule picks up again this fall. Visit us
on the
road, and as always, let us know if you're interested in
presenting for us at an upcoming conference.
Welcome, New District Subscribers!
BrainPOP Looks Forward to Serving You
and Your Students
New to the BrainPOP family:
Albermarle County Public Schools (VA) ♦
Alva ISD (OK)
♦
Ames Community SD (IA) ♦
Anderson SD 5 (SC)
♦ Bethpage UFSD
(NY) ♦ Biloxi Public Schools (MS)
♦ Bloomington Public Schools (MN)
♦ Bridgewater-Raritan RSD (NJ)
♦ Buckeye Valley Local SD
(OH) ♦ Cherokee County Schools (GA)
♦ Chireno ISD
(TX) ♦ Concord Public Schools (MA)
♦ Dixie SD (CA)
♦ Elmwood Park SD (NJ)
♦ Gettysburg Area SD (PA)
♦ Gilmer County Schools (GA)
♦ Glen Ellyn SD 41, (IL)
♦ Greater Amsterdam SD
(NY) ♦ Haralson County Schools
(GA) ♦ Hornell City SD (NY)
♦ Irving ISD (TX)
♦ Lakeland Central SD
(NY) ♦ Lindsay ISD
(TX) ♦ Maize USD 266
(KS) ♦ Medina Public Schools (ND)
♦ Mercer Island SD (WA)
♦ Metropolitan SD of Pike
Township (IN) ♦ Moorhead Area Public Schools (MN)
♦ New Hartford Central SD
(NY) ♦ North Babylon UFSD (NY)
♦ North Middlesex RSD
(MA) ♦ Northbrook SD 28
(IL) ♦ Oyster River Cooperative SD(NY) ♦
Patchogue-Medford SD (NY)
♦ Peru Community Schools (IN)
♦ Plymouth Community School
Corporation (IN) ♦ Salem
Elementary SD
(WI) ♦ SD of Pickens County
(SC) ♦ SD of Waukesha (WI)
♦ Shamrock ISD
(TX) ♦ Shawnee Public Schools (OK)
♦ Skokie SD 73 (IL)
♦ Somis Union SD (CA)
♦ Stephens County Schools (GA)
♦ Sun Prairie Area SD
(WI) ♦ Sunset Ridge SD 29 (IL)
♦ Taylorville Community SD #3 (IL)
♦ Teton County SD #1 (WY)
♦ Uniontown Area SD (PA)
♦ Vail SD (AZ)
♦ Walton County (GA)
♦ Washington County Public Schools
(MD) ♦ Waterford Township SD
(NJ) ♦ Winnisquam RSD
(NH) ♦ Woodbury Public Schools
(NJ) ♦ Woodlands Public Schools
(OK)
Interested in a district-wide
subscription? Send an email to our District Relations
team.
Quick Tip: Funding
Microsoft Settlement Funds and BrainPOP
Is your school district located in AZ, AK, CA, FL, KS, MA, MN, NE, NM, NC, ND, SD, TN, VT, Washington,
D.C., WV, or WI?
Remember, you can use Microsoft Settlement Funds vouchers to pay for your subscriptions to BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., and/or BrainPOP Español.
Contact our District Relations team for
assistance.
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