Go to the Movies!
Curriculum Connections
Keep this list of BrainPOP movies handy, and check the BrainPOP Educators online Curriculum Calend ar additional tie-ins.
♦ November 3: It’s out of this world! NASA launched Mariner 10, the first spacecraft to fly to Mercury, on November 3, 1973.
♦ November 4: King Tut’s tomb was discovered today in 1922. Wrap up your lessons with our Mummies movie.
♦ November 6: Fall back! Daylight Saving Time ends tonight. For K-3, there's Time to the Hour.
♦ November 7: Happy birthday Joni Mitchell! Celebrate with some60s Folk. Then, earn “glowing” reviews with our Marie Curie movie on the chemist’s birthday. Finally, commemorate the 1996 launch of the Mars Global Surveyor with our Mars movie, then have the class Fly to Mars themselves on GameUp.
♦ November 8: Rake in the votes on Election Day with our Voting(BrainPOP) and Local & State Governments (K-3) movies. Then, learn more about Branches of Power on GameUp!
♦ November 11: On Veterans Day, show our Armed Forces movie. You can also learn about influential author Kurt Vonnegut - a veteran himself - who was born on this date in 1922.
♦ November 14: Put a little art in your day on Claude Monet’s birthday. Teach the class about his genre, Impressionism. K-3 teachers, brighten things up with BrainPOP Jr.’s Colors movie.
♦ November 15: Bottles and papers and cans, oh my! On America Recycles Day, talk to the class about Recycling. BrainPOP Jr. covers the topic in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Additionally, modern artistGeorgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887.
♦ November 17: Today marks the Great American Smokeout. Explain the dangers of this deadly habit with BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. movies on Smoking.
♦ November 18: Can you picture it? Louis Daguerre was born today in 1787; learn more in our Photography movie.
♦ November 19: Four score and seven years ago … BrainPOP andBrainPOP Jr. both offer movies on Abraham Lincoln, who delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Delve even deeper with BrainPOP’s movie on the Civil War. ♦ November 20: See stars on Edwin Hubble’s birthday … with ourGalaxies movie.
♦ November 22: Remember John F. Kennedy, on the anniversary of his 1963 assassination.
♦ November 24: Happy Thanksgiving! Teach students about the holiday with our BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. movies.
♦ November 30: Author Mark Twain came into the world as Samuel Clemens today in 1835.
♦ December 1: Observe World AIDS Day with our movie on the global epidemic.
♦ December 4: The Los Angeles Times was first published today in 1881. Talk to the class about Reading a Newspaper.
♦ December 7: It’s a day that will live in infamy. Pearl Harbor was attacked on 70 years ago today, leading the U.S. into World War II.
