Brainpop

BrainPop is a website with hundreds of short Flash-based movies for students in grades K-12 covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, arts and music, health and technology.  The movies are about five minutes long, and can be a great way to introduce or reinforce the information in a unit of study.

At HTS, we subscribe to BrainPop and BrainPop Jr (for K-3)

Our Login is: dtarantino
Password is: seashell

This is for use by a single teacher at at time - that is to say, you cannot have an entire class login and watch their own movies.

The BrainPop homepage looks like this:  Each of the movies are narrated by the characters Tim and Moby, featured in the picture below...

Each subject is divided into major categories:

Then again:

BrainPop Jr is narrated by a character named Annie, and introduces topics with younger students in mind:

And perhaps most importantly, BrainPop has comprehensive resources for teachers:

 

You might enjoy an interview with the director of BrainPop Educators:

http://www.teachhub.com/news/article/cat/14/item/214