Brain Pop Jr.

Brain Pop, Brain Pop Jr. and Brain Pop Espanol are websites that provide educational movies for young learners.  The movies in Brain Pop Jr. are reinforced with games, activities, quizzes and more.  Our students love it!

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A resource pack is available for download from Promethean Planet.  For support downloading, check out this video from Teacher Tube. 

APS Science Unit Matrix

Many of the resources found in Brain Pop Jr. support the ASP Science units for K-5.  There are 11 subcategories in the Science section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can be found in the category.

  • Animals (Camouflage, Hibernation, Migration, Food Chain, Classifying Animals)
  • Energy (Heat, Light, sound)
  • Forces (Sink or Float, Simple Machines, Magnets)
  • Habitats (Desert, Freshwater, Rainforest, Arctic)
  • Land (Soil, Fossils, Landforms, Rocks and Minerals, Slow Land Changes)
  • Matter (Solids, Liquids and Gases, Changing States of Matter)
  • Plants (Parts of a Plant, Plant Life Cycle)
  • Science Skills (Scientific Method, Science Projects, Making Observations)
  • Space (Earth, The Moon, Solar System, The Sun)
  • Weather (Seasons, Winter, Fall, Water Cycle)
  • Conservation (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, Natural Resources)

There are 9 subcategories in the Health section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can be found in the category.

  • Be Active (Exercise)
  • Be Responsible (Caring for Pets, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)
  • Be Safe (Internet Safety, Safety Signs)
  • Be Well (Allergies, Lice, Hand Washing, Exercise, Food Pyramid)
  • Bodies (Bones, Lungs, Exercise, Heart, Senses)
  • Drugs (Medicine)
  • Food (Food Pyramid)
  • Relationships (Divorce, Friends, Bullying)
  • Teeth (Loosing a Tooth, Caring for Teeth)

APS Literacy Guides

Many of the resources found in Brain Pop Jr. support the ASP literacy guides.  There are 7 subcategories in the Reading section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can be found in the category.

  • Authors (Ezra Jack Keats, Cynthia Rylant, Eloise Greenfield)
  • Books (Choosing a Book, Library, Ezra Jack Keats, Reading Nonfiction, Cynthia Rylant)
  • Comprehension (Main Idea, Make Inferences, Make Predictions)
  • Genres (Reading Nonfiction, Poems)
  • Story Elements (Character, Setting, Main Idea, Plot)
  • Language (Similes, Synonyms and Antonyms, Adjectives and Adverbs)
  • Phonics (Rhyming Words, Short Vowels, Silent e)

There are 8 subcategories in the the Writing section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can found in the category.

  • Communication (Sending a Letter, Listening and Speaking, Internet Safety)
  • Essay (How-to-Essay, Book Reports, Writing About Yourself, Writing with the Senses)
  • Nonfiction (Writing About Yourself, Reading Nonfiction)
  • Paragraph (Writing a Paragraph, Writing with the Senses)
  • Poetry (Poems, Writing With Senses)
  • Sentence (Capital and Lowercase, Types of Sentences)
  • Word (Synonyms and Antonyms, Tenses, Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs, Contractions, Plural Nouns, Possessive Nouns)
  • Fiction (Short Story, Ezra Jack Keats, Cynthia Rylant)

APS Social Studies Pacing Guide

There are 10 subcategories in the Social Studies section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can be found in the category.

  • Ancient History (Ancient China, Ancient Egypt)
  • Biographies (George Carver Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, George Washington)
  • Communities (Kindergarten, Rural, Suburban and Urban, School, Homes)
  • Economics (Wants and Needs, Goods and Services)
  • Government (Rights and Responsibilities, U.S. Symbols, Local and State, President)
  • Holidays (Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln)
  • Geogrpahy (Reading Maps, Landforms, Rural, Suburban and Urban)
  • Cultures (Mexico, Pueblo))
  • American History (Pueblo, thanksgiving, Harriet Tubman, George Washington)
  • Citizenship ( Rights and Responsibilites, U.S. Symbols)

APS Math Continuum

There are 10 subcategories in the Math section of Brain Pop Jr.  Refer to the list below for the category name and the content that can be found in the category.

  • Addition and Subtraction (Basic Addition, Basic Subtraction, Counting On, Doubles, Making 10)
  • Calendar (Calendar and Dates)
  • Data and Probability (Tally Charts and Bar Graphs, , Basic Probability)
  • Fractions (Basic Parts of a Whole)
  • Geometry (Plane Shapes, Solid Shapes)
  • Measurement (Inches and Feet, Cups, Quarts, Pints and Gallons, Ounces, Pounds and Tons)
  • Money (Dollars and Cents, Counting Coins)
  • Number Sense (Even and Odd, Place Value)
  • Time (Parts of a Clock, Time to the Hour)
  • Multiplication and Division (Arrays, Making Equal Groups)

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