BrainPop is a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in K-12 classes (ages 6 to 17), along with quizzes related materials, covering subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and art and music. BrainPop is used in over 20% of schools in the US and also offers subscriptions to homeschool families and children. It is also used in schools in Mexico, France, Spain, Israel and several other countries, where it offers videos in local languages ​​designed for students in these countries. BrainPop is available by subscription but has some free content, including today's movies, some free movies from every topic area, educational materials, including lesson plans, and an extensive library of educational games called GameUp. Free smartphone and tablet apps access free content and subscribe to BrainPop.
Videos and other materials designed to engage students and assist teachers and primary schools; they are in harmony with the state education standard. Most of the videos feature Tim and Moby characters. In addition to BrainPop.com for older children, the company offers BrainPop Jr. for younger children (K-3 classes), BrainPop Espaà ± a ol, BrainPop FranÃÆ'§ais, BrainPop ELL for non-native speakers of language learning UK, BrainPop Educator, a free site for teachers and parents to post material and interact with BrainPop and one another, GameUp and My BrainPop, a tool for students and teachers to record learning achievements. This site is owned by FWD Media, Inc. and its affiliates, based in New York.
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Site description
History and products
Founded in 1999, the BrainPop website features animated curriculum-based content that supports educators and is intended to be fun and motivate students to watch. The films in that place include subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering & amp; technology, health, and art and music. Since 2007, the films have been closed. The site also accesses various educational games. BrainPop is used in over 25% of schools in the US and in many schools outside the US, as well as by parents, homeschooling children, and others. The company was founded by Avraham Kadar, M.D., an immunologist and pediatrician, to explain the medical concept to his young patients using animation. In 2011, BrainPop hosted more than 11 million unique visits each month, from thousands of schools and individuals around the world. BrainPop uses an internal faculty, animator, and writer team to produce and continually update the site, incorporating teacher input and parent.
Site resources include BrainPop.com, for grade 3 and higher (above age 9) and BrainPop Jr., for K-3 grades (ages 5 to 9). The sites also offer films in several languages ​​for regional markets that are tailored to local education standards. Sites, free interactive resources for homeschool teachers and children, BrainPop Educators, features free tips, tools and best practices by and for educators. My BrainPop is a tool for students and teachers to record learning achievements, and teachers can track student progress. In 2009, BrainPop introduced BrainPop ELL (originally named BrainPop ESL), which is targeted at students who learn English as a second language. Schools and parents can use this site to help shape the student curriculum. BrainPop's free GameUp site contains free online games from third-party game publishers in coordination with BrainPop, BrainPop Jr. and BrainPop ELL curricula.
BrainPop films can be used to introduce new lessons or topics, to illustrate complex material or to be reviewed before the exam. Content is parallel to US state education standards and can be searched by state topics or standards. In addition to movies, this site features quizzes, educational games, experiments, and other related content that students can use interactively to reinforce lessons in movies. BrainPop products are compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors and interactive whiteboards, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. No downloads, installations or special hardware are required. The film features recurring characters like Moby robots, Tim (a teenager, in BrainPop) and Annie (a younger girl, in BrainPop Jr.). Most of the movies begin with characters that respond to correspondence and end humor, often with Tim being distracted on Moby or vice versa.
Reputation
"BrainPOP has built a reputation for quality, attention and strong support for teachers". BrainPop and its products have received many awards and acknowledgments from Common Sense Media, CODiE Awards, Education Publishing Association, District Administration, Forbes magazine, Service Association Library for Children, Association of Educational Publishers, Digital Innovations in Learning Awards, Technology & amp; Learning Magazine , KAPi Awards, Applications for Homeschooling, International Serious Awards, Learning Magazine , Ednet's Best Teacher Choice Award, eSchool News , Homeschool.com, Apple Education , Interactive Media Award, Master With Application, and Achievement Award, Media & amp; Method. A multi-class 2009 study by SEG research, entitled "Study of BrainPop Effectiveness", involves more than 1,000 students in schools in Palm Beach County, Florida and New York City. BrainPop-financed research concludes, "Students in the class using BrainPop made significant improvements compared to students in the class who did not use BrainPop."
Reviews for websites and movies have been profitable. A review on Common Sense Media commented: "BrainPOP is a standard carrier for quality self-contained online education content.... A one-year subscription is valuable because there is at least one year's worth of content for children to browse at BrainPOP. "A school student writes in the Curriculum Choices :" The videos are very funny, and they explain the information in a way that children can easily understand and remember. [His quizzes] quick and easy way for me to see if [the students] really understand the material. "The reviews in The Reading Matrix states:
- This presentation provides meaningful instructions and ratings, driven standards [for] for exceptional quality.... One of the best features teachers love about BrainPop is its ease of use.... [T] layouts, webinars, and free tutorials make navigating through the vast amount of winning information.... [A] The State Standard Tool... enables educators to search for their country's standards to suit different activities with appropriate standards.... [The] interactive character... helps explain concepts, designs experiments, and shows students how to acquire specific skills or uses the information provided.... Tim and Moby have their own personalities and trusted friends and connect with their audiences.... [the] site allows students to teach themselves.
School recommends products. A teacher wrote to eSchool News , "This product has made my students eager to take a quiz after the video How many teachers can say that about their students?" Praising the BrainPop video of Ada Lovelace, Wired magazine wrote, "After reading more about life and his work, I still feel it is the best summary of the Ada Lovelace BrainPop video, designed for kids." Another reviewer feels that a good feature of BrainPop films is the brevity: "enough to catch and engage the kids." After budget cuts lead to the cancellation of a Michigan school subscription to BrainPop by 2014, teachers raise money from students to bring it back by 2015.
Education site connexions.org writes: "I recommend this site to teachers who want to inform and entertain their students Video is a unique educational tool with interesting characters [... sic ]... BrainPop will not only enliven the classroom, but the site is reliable with lessons following country-level standards and levels. " Teach Magazine notes," Team and Moby... illustrate often difficult concepts in fun formats which is uniquely suited to 21st century students. " In 2011, Canada's TEACH magazine wrote that the films were presented "in a fun format uniquely suited to 21st century learners...... BrainPop films are ideal for group and one-on-one settings and can be used to introduce new lessons or topics or to illustrate complex themes as reviews prior to the exam In 2015, Yahoo! Tech selected BrainPop for a list of "Eleven Great Helpers Digital Home Workers for Your Kids", and SheKnows Media listed it among the top educational sites for children.
In 2010, The New York Times wrote a free enterprise smartphone and tablet application: "BrainPop is a viable app, featuring a new short educational cartoon every day.Cartoon is followed by a quick quiz that will be challenging even challenging adults. " The Epoch Times shows the app as" iPhone Applications of the Week "and calls the movie" typically funny, if somewhat tacky, and always interesting ". The Explore Knowledge Academy, the first public charter charter in Nevada, has recommended BrainPop phone and tablet applications, such as ChanelproSMB, Family Circle, Media Sense Common Cool Mom Tech and The Educator's Room . ADDITION Magazine selected the app as one of three apps to "hone your reading skills."
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BrainPop characters
Tim and Moby are the main characters in most BrainPop movies.
Team
Tim is a teenager who does most of the talk in the movie and understands what Moby says. The design on his shirt usually matches the topic being discussed. At the start of each video, Tim reads a letter from a student asking about the topic. Often at the end of the movie, Moby will be very annoying to Tim, or vice versa.
Moby
Moby the Robot is an orange robot that communicates with a beep. Three lights on his chest were on when he rang, and Tim usually translated what he said. Moby is Tim's friend but likes to drive him crazy. Moby helps out by picking up things for Tim and asking questions about the topic they're discussing. As a robot, he can do things that people can not do, like turning his hands into a frozen light, sending himself back to the past, throwing rubbish into a black hole in the sky, lifting his head, and using a laser. Some movies, such as Earth, Radar, and Milky Way, imply that Moby comes from outer space. However, Leonardo da Vinci's film implies that it was created by da Vinci.
Other characters
Cassie and Rita are two teenage girls, who are good friends and are especially featured in the comics that accompany many films in the "FYI" section. They also occasionally appear in the main movie and even tell some of them. Rita tends to be quieter and smarter, while Cassie tends to be more confused. Like Moby, Cassie likes to disturb Tim, while some movies imply that Rita has a romantic interest in Tim and that she restores her feelings.
Bob is a rat with a broken tail and a chest that is patched. He is featured in, and often performs, an experiment called "Experiments with Bob Ex-Lab Rat", which is associated with most science films.
Gary and gary are fathers and sons featured in comics titled "How To With Gary and gary", which shows how to do things safely. The capital "Gary" is the father, and the lowercase "gary" is a boy.
BrainPop Jr.
BrainPop Jr. was launched in 2006. It is similar to BrainPop in the subject area, but the films are directed to the K-3 class (ages 5-9). The host is Moby and a little girl named Annie. Like regular BrainPop, this site offers free "Movie of the Week", as well as some free movies in various curricular areas. Common Sense Media writes "BrainPop Jr." high quality educational sites that can be easily navigated by their own children. This interactive site includes video, audio instructions, and graphics that are familiar to children in an ideal format for young learners. Kids can enjoy their videos to the next level, more effectively, and do something with what they just watched online... [and explore] sub-categories, such as science and math. If your K-3 kid loves learning things online online, this site is worth the cost of a subscription. " General Media Sense also praised the video quality and variety of free movie topics, and wrote," This video covers a lot of ground but is easy to follow and fun to watch; they will explain things slowly and carefully and at the appropriate level for primary school children [but] are largely dependent on parents to get children involved in further exploration of the material. "
Characters in BrainPop Jr.
Annie is a young girl who tells a movie. He wears red-rimmed glasses and also works with Moby. He has a teenage sister named Mia. There are many clues in BrainPop Jr. that Annie is a Mexican. For example, the dog's name is SeÃÆ' Â ± or Maurice, and he sometimes calls his father "Papi".
At BrainPop Jr., Moby shows her emotions more often, like crying or excited. Moby is better off in BrainPop Jr than in BrainPop. He can also do things Moby can not do, like sneezing, sweating, and drinking something, like water. He can also get sick and smell the flowers.
Frank and Joey are two fish that star in the comic strip "Belly Up."
BrainPop and BrainPop ELL educators
BrainPop educators were introduced in 2008. This is an online community of 125,000 teachers, and parents using BrainPop. This free site offers answer keys for activity pages, graphics organizers, professional development materials, posters, cliparts, and other resources for educators. It also allows educators to collaborate and share resources, such as lesson plans, organizers and activities for students. The site also offers video tutorials and webinars. My BrainPop, added in 2013, is a tool for students and teachers to record learning achievements from games, activities, quizzes and other content.
BrainPop ELL (English as a second language) is a website launched in 2009 featuring animated videos that provide grammar and vocabulary instruction and interactive exercises for non-native English speakers of all ages. Each video contains an animated story, a new vocabulary introduction, and an illustration of relevant grammatical topics. Narrator is a boy named Ben, who is accompanied by Moby robot. The videos present a series of language training and content that are more challenging for English learners, starting with the beginner level and continuing to the advanced level. Students may choose review activities, such as "Words, Words, Words", vocabulary exercises that use flash cards and include pronunciation guides; "Listen, Say," to strengthen the vocabulary and speak; "Read", to understand the reading; and "Write down", for writing exercises. There are also games and quizzes to review ideas from videos. Internet-based websites have proven to be useful tools to complement classroom instruction for English learners. Education Week recommends BrainPop ELL, writing that it "helps build background knowledge and concrete visual examples."
GameUp
In 2011, BrainPop launched its educational games website GameUp , which contains a collection of free online games from third-party game publishers and BrainPop designers that help teach a variety of subjects and coordinate with BrainPop, BrainPop SMP Curriculum and BrainPop ELL. BrainPop partners with community developer and developer organizations to continue to expand and improve site content and sync games with academic standards. More than 100 games are displayed on the site in 2014 based on the Core General Core Standards Initiative. GameUp aims to help teachers use educational games in the classroom to engage and motivate students. It's supported by BrainPop Educators.
New Media Consortium writes: "GameUp features top online educational games titles as well as supporting and additional materials for educators.The GameUp title comes from an impressive collection of organizations like Nobelprize.orgÃ,®, iCivics, JASON Project, Mangahigh, and National Council of Teachers Mathematics, to name a few. " Edutopia , Education Week and The Wall Street Journal are among other sources recommending GameUp. BrainPop "takes care of their game very carefully and considers a variety of factors, ranging from gaming curricular values ​​to experience appropriate for classroom use, and seriously pairing games with additional lessons and materials that allow teachers to integrate games quickly and easily into their classroom. "
See also
- Educational animation
References
External links
- Official website
- the official site of the Israeli BrainPop
- A teacher's video is using BrainPop, from Education Week (2013)
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