Brain Pop: May Curriculum Connections

New Content and Curricular Tie-Ins

Go to the Movies!

The Latest on BrainPOP:

♦ Coaster Creator (GameUp)

♦ Edgar Allan Poe

♦ Flower Power (GameUp)

♦ Food Chain (GameUp)

♦ Landform Detectives (GameUp)

♦ Master Mines (GameUp)

♦ Pyramid Panic (GameUp)

♦ Refraction (GameUp)

♦ Tangled Web (GameUp)

 

Curriculum Connections

Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check the BrainPOP Educators online Curriculum Calendar for additional tie-ins.

   

♦ May 8: It’s National Teacher Appreciation Day – thank you for all you do, educators! Underscore the importance of your chosen profession with our Getting Help (BrainPOP) and School (K-3) movies.

♦ May 9: On this date in 1970, more than 100,000 young people gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the Vietnam War. On a lighter note, the Beatles signed their first recording contract on May 9 in 1962.

♦ May 10: Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president today in 1994. Explain the significance of this milestone with our Apartheid topic.

♦ May 13: Happy Mother’s Day! Still looking for a last-minute gift? Consider our Chocolate movie – it’s short and sweet! In history: the U.S. declared war on Mexico today in 1846. Learn more with ourMexican-American War movie.  

♦ May 14: Edward Jenner administered the first modern vaccine on May 14, 1796. Give it your best “shot” with our Vaccines andSmallpox movies. Also on this date? The Jamestown Settlement was founded in 1607. Our Thirteen Colonies movies – on BrainPOP andBrainPOP Jr. – are great resources.

♦ May 15: Rock the vote, ladies! The National Woman’s SuffrageAssociation was founded today in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

♦ May 17: The Supreme Court handed down their famed Brown vs. Board of Education decision on this date in 1954.

♦ May 18: It’s Endangered Species Day. Talk to the class about what this means with our Extinction (BrainPOP) and Extinct and Endangered Species (BrainPOP Jr.) movies. ESL/ELL teachers, BrainPOP ESL offersThey're Endangered (Level 3/Unit 1/Lesson 1), which explains the present simple passive while talking about extinct and endangered species. 

♦ May 19:  Talk to the class about the historical significance of civil rights activist Malcolm X, born today in 1925.

♦ May 20: Come fly with me! Aviatrix Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic today in 1932. Also in May 20 history: the Homestead Act was passed in 1862. Use our Westward Expansion topic to explain this to students.

♦ May 21: Clara Barton established the American Red Cross on May 21^st, 1881. It’s the perfect occasion to show our First Aid movie.

♦ May 22: Put some art in your day on Mary Cassatt’s birthday. OurImpressionism topic can help.  

♦ May 23: Happy World Turtle Day! Come out of your shell with ourReptiles movie.

♦ May 24: On Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s birthday, today’s hot topic is Temperature. We’ve got movies on BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.

♦ May 26: Astronaut Sally Ride celebrates her birthday today.

♦ May 28: Help kids understand the true meaning of Memorial Day with our Armed Forces movie.

♦ May 29: Highlight the contributions of President John F. Kennedyon his birthday. Also on this date, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first climbers to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, in 1953. Plus, coming soon to BrainPOP ESL: We Have Climbed It! Lessons on the past simple and present perfect tenses are packaged in a lesson about Mt. Everest. 

♦ May 30: On World MS Day, help kids understand what multiple sclerosis is.

♦ May 31: It’s World No Tobacco Day. BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.both have Smoking topics to help you talk to kids about this deadly habit.

♦ June 2: The MyPlate Food Guide debuted a year ago today. Relevant topics include Nutrition (BrainPOP) and Food Pyramid(BrainPOP Jr.).

♦ June 3:  Hernan de Soto claimed the Floridian peninsula for Spain on this date in 1539. Put that in context with our Conquistadorsmovie.

♦ June 4: The Battle of Midway Island began today in 1942, ultimately proving to be a World War II turning point. 

♦ June 5: The CDC reported the first AIDS cases today in 1981. It’s also World Environment Day. Timely BrainPOP topics includeEcosystems and Humans and the Environment. For K-3, there’sRainforests, Arctic Habitats, Desert, and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Teaching ESL/ELL? Check out We Must Clean Up - and review modal auxiliary verbs - on BrainPOP ESL. 

♦ June 6: Happy birthday Cynthia Rylant!

♦ June 7: Today in 1914, the first ship passed through the Panama Canal. Our Theodore Roosevelt topic tells you more.

BrainPop: Supplement your Curriculum April - May

♦ April 6: The first modern Olympic Games began today in 1896.

♦ April 7: On World Health Day, explore the Human Body.

♦ April 9: The U.S. Civil War ended on this date in 1865. K-3 teachers, use BrainPOP Jr.'s Abraham Lincoln movie to discuss the conflict. Also on this date? The Works Progress Administration was founded in 1935. Work our New Deal topic into your day. 

♦ April 10: Mark the 1866 founding of the ASPCA with BrainPOP'sDogs and Cats topics, and for K-3, Caring for Pets. 

♦ April 12: On the anniversary of its first shots, in 1861, show ourCivil War movie. Today also marks the anniversary of the first human space flight (1961) and the first Space Shuttle flight (1981) - ourApollo Project and Space Flight movies are out of this world! 

♦ April 13: Happy birthday, Thomas Jefferson!

♦ April 14: With Tax Day 24 hours away, explain the significance of April 15th with BrainPOP's Taxes topic and, for K-3, Local and State Governments. 

♦ April 15:  Iceberg! Remember the 100th anniversary of the unsinkable ship's demise with our new Titanic topic.

♦ April 16: Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... Wilbur Wright's birthday. Talk about the pioneering aviator with our Flightmovie. 

♦ April 18: On the anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, shake things up. Show our Earthquakes movie or, for K-3, Fast Land Changes. 

♦ April 19: The shot heard 'round the world was fired today in 1775, kicking off the American Revolution. On BrainPOP Jr., there's George Washington.

♦ April 20: Here's a valuable strand of information: it's National DNADay. 

♦ April 21: Remember the Battle of San Jacinto with our Mexican-American War topic. Then, wish Queen Elizabeth II a royally good birthday.

♦ April 22: Save the planet! Make a difference this Earth Day withHumans and the Environment, and, for K-3, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 

♦ April 23: How poetic! William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on April 23 in 1564. 

♦ April 25: Jazz things up on Ella Fitzgerald's birthday. It's also World Malaria Day; show our Protozoa topic and explain the widespread disease. Or, celebrate nature's best-dressed creatures on World Penguin Day. 

♦ April 26: Explain the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster with our Nuclear Energy movie. 

♦ April 27: Go green on Arbor Day! Show our Seed Plants and Plant Growth movies. K-3 teachers, BrainPOP Jr. has Forests. 

♦ April 28: On Astronomy Day, see stars! Galaxies and Solar System(K-3) are just two of our related topics; GameUp offers Fly to Marsand Build a Solar System. 

♦ April 29: Duke Ellington was born on this date in 1899. Talk about his legacy with our Harlem Renaissance and Great Depression movies. 

♦ May 1: It's not a tall tale - the Empire State Building really did open today in 1931. BrainPOP's Skyscrapers topic tells you more about this landmark. 

♦ May 3: Play some 60s Folk on Pete Seeger's 93rd birthday.

♦ May 4: Chirp chirp - it's Bird Day. Talk to the class abour our fine feathered friends with BrainPOP's Birds movie. 

♦ May 5: Double the celebration! On Cinco de Mayo, our Latin Musicand Mexico (K-3) movies make things even more festive. Watching the Kentucky Derby? Show the kids our Horses movie. 

♦ May 6: Subconsciously, you know it's Sigmund Freud's birthday and the perfect occasion for our Dreams topic. 

♦ May 7: The RMS Lusitania sank today in 1915 - put that in context with our World War I topic. 

iPad Apps that work with SmartBoards

Thursday, March 1, 2012

iPad Apps that work with Smartboards

The iPad looks amazing when projected onto a large screen. The students in a 1 to 1 iPad classroom gets to see the apps at work. Have a look at the list below to see if any of these might be useful in your classroom. If you have others that should be added to this list please leave a comment with the name of the app and we will add it to the list.

Doceri: FREE
Turn your iPad and classroom computer into an Interactive Whiteboard with Doceri™. Imagine the freedom to move around the room, interact with your students and never turn your back to the class. Requires Doceri Desktop - download a FREE TRIAL at www.doceri.com. Doceri is the ultimate tool for presentations and lessons, accessible anywhere you have Wi-Fi.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/doceri-remote/id412443803?mt=8

SplashTop: $5.49 AU
This is the ONLY remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken, IE, Firefox, Safari, World of Warcraft, and other PC / MAC applications. Remotely access your PC or MAC from any device!

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/splashtop-remote-desktop-for/id382509315?mt=8

Edistorm: FREE
Edistorm is an online brainstorming tool that uses the metaphor of sticky notes to allow you to brainstorm. Edistorm is the best way to brainstorm before, during and after your meetings. Edistorm allows you create brainstorms, add or retrieve your ideas anywhere you are. Visit Edistorm.com to organize your ideas and to visually collaborate with your clients wherever they are.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/edistorm/id378985009?mt=8

Bridgit: FREE
With the SMART Bridgit conferencing software app, you can collaborate effortlessly with local and remote meeting participants*. Use the app with your SMART Board interactive whiteboard or display to view content that is being presented and highlight or annotate over that content. You can create or join a meeting on your iPad with either a WiFi or 3G network connection.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/smart-bridgit-conferencing/id433502122?mt=8

Mocha VNC: FREE
Using your iPhone or iPad, you can connect to a Windows PC or Mac OS X and see the files, programs, and resources exactly as you would if you were sitting at your desk, just on a smaller screen. Compared to the Lite version the full version has: Keyboard banners with extra keys, extra keys as ALT,CTRL and the Apple key a well as mouse dragging , hover and mouse wheel.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/mocha-vnc-lite/id284984448?mt=8

Google Docs: FREE
Google docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. All your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer.

https://docs.google.com/

Dropbox:
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8

Digital Classroom

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65+ iPad Adds Perfect for Elementary School

All Subjects/General:

1. Keynote – Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping.
2. iMovie – Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and the amazing new iPad 2
3. Pages- Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are.
4. Numbers – A spreadsheet application
5. Whiteboard – Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
6. iBooks – an ereader book store.
7. eClicker/eClicker Host – eClicker is a personal response system that allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson.
8. ComicLife – It’s the funnest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device.
9. TypeDrawing – TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it’s perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos.
10. Animoto – Animoto turns the pictures on your iPhone into beautiful music videos! It takes just a few minutes to make one, and then you can share and collect them with your friends
11. Discovery Education – Educational videos
12. Mobile Mouse – Mobile Mouse instantly transforms your iPad into a wireless mouse and trackpad for your computer.
13. Professor Garfield Cyberbullying – Through comic strips, questions and ansers and problem solving, Garfield teaches what cyberbullying is and how to prevent it.
14. Sundry Notes – Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more!
15. Blackboard Presenter – This app turns your iPad to blackboard presenter.
16. Little Artist HD – Little Artist is a super easy to use finger painting app for kids of all ages !!
17. DropBox – Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
18. CK12.Org – free online textbooks
19. Templates for Elementary Students – works for all ages
20. Notability – text to speech or just a note taking app
21. Overdrive - allows you to check out books from any public library

Language Arts:

1. Toontastic – Create your own stories on line using the story arch and our animated artwork.
2. Book Creator – Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. (Allows everything except video)
3. Popplet – Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet’s super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts
4. Reading Trainer – This app teaches you how to train your eyes and brain to read and comprehend text faster. Think of it as exercise for your reading skills.
5. Super Why – Help your child achieve the Power to Read with this collection of four SUPER WHY interactive games
6. ABC Phonics Word Sight – Learn Dolch sight words the fun and easy way.
7. Dr. Suess‘s ABC – The beloved classic “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” is now available for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
8. Word Magic – Teaches young children how to read and recognize letters.
9. Animated Rhymes 3 – This App contain 2 Rhymes (1) Pussy Cat (2)The Dog Says Bow,Wow.
10. StarFall – The “ABCs” section of Starfall.com’s well-loved website
11. SpellBoard – Monday, we get our weekly words. Wednesday, we have our pre-quiz and Friday is the spelling test.
12. Story Wheel – Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities.
13. Shakespeare in Bits – This is the Free Lite edition of Shakespeare In Bits: Romeo & Juliet.

Math:

1. MathBoard – MathBoard is a stunning app for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems
2. Free Graphic Calculator – With the highest number of available mathematical functions, you will be able to solve almost every mathematical problem you can imagine
3. Ruler – Use your finger to drag the marker across the screen. Actual dimensions will be instantly displayed.
4. Math Quizzer – Math Quizzer is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost your skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division
5. Ace Kids Math Games – Easily teaches kids how to Count, Add, and Subtract VISUALLY using fun animations with a prize reward system for completing each level.
6. Math Bingo – The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems.
7. iFactor Quadratics – This is a simple application that will factor quadratic equations, if possible
8. eSolver HD – eSolver HD enables you to solve quadratic equations in a very simple way.
9. Math Flash Cards – Math Flash Cards is a fun to use math drill application that looks and works just like the old paper flash cards.
10. Numerate: Count, Add and Subtract – Learn how to recognize numbers (1-20) and explore simple addition and subtraction with interactive calculations.
11. MakeChange – Practice counting change and doing addition problems.
12. Equation – EQUATION is a very fast and easy tool to solve Quadratic Equations.
13. Park Math – Park Math introduces early math concepts to children in Preschool and Kindergarten (ages 1-6).
14. MotionMath – By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
15. Math Ninja Lite – Teaches basic concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, to more advanced and complicated problem solving such as mixed operator usage.
16. Math Ninja – Use your math skills to defend your tree house against a hungry tomato and his robotic army in this fun action packed game!
17. Motion Math Zoom – They’ll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.
18. Pizza Fractions – In chef’s pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples

Social Studies:

1. Geo Play 2 – States, Countries, International Capitals, Continents, Potpourri.
2. The Presidency – The Presidency application is an excellent educational reference for easy access to historical information regarding the 44 United States Presidents.
3. GeoMaster – In GeoMaster – US State Game, your goal is to place as fast and as accurately as possible all US states on a map.
4. Stack the States – Stack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun!
5. Early Jamestown – Victory Productions presents an interactive textbook exploration of the early days of the Jamestown settlement and the state of Virginia.

Science:

1. 3D Sun – “3D Sun” lets you carry a virtual window onto today’s sun, right in your pocket.
2. Stars – Stars is a light application that displays the 88 constellations in the sky
3. Bobo Explores Light – Hold a fully functional science museum in the palm of your hand!
4. 3D Brain – Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness.
5. Molecules – Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers.
6. Starwalk – Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time.
7. SolarWalk – This 3D Solar System model enables you to navigate through space and time, observe all the planets in close-up, learn their trajectories, inner structure, history of their exploration, points of interest and more.
8. NASA VIZ – This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad.

Electives/Other:

1. iSign3D – Introducing an innovative application for learning the American Sign Language alphabet for the iPad!

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