BrainPOP Jr.

By: Kodi Phillips

What is the tool and how can it be used?

BrainPOP, founded in 1999, is a website that creates animated, curriculum based content that supports educators and helps them enhance their lessons. BrainPOP Jr. is one of the newest additions to BrainPOP. On BrainPOP Jr. students can watch movies, take quizzes, perform experiments, look at timelines, and view activity pages. It includes many inteactive features such as writing, drawing, and discussion prompts as well as interactive games. It has fully integrated learning units that encourage exploration and inquiry as well as introduce students to test-taking skills and comprehension strategies. All of these activities cover many different topics from science, social studies, reading, writing, math, and health. The content found of this website is developmentally appropriate. All of the content on BrainPOP Jr. is aligned to state standards. It can be used to introduce a new lesson, illustrate a difficult topic or even review for a test. It can be used in classrooms, media labs, and homes. BrainPOP Jr. works on PC or Mac computers and can be used with projectors or interactive whiteboards. Teachers can choose to use this website one on one with a student or with small groups or the whole class.

What are some advantages and disadvantages?

BrainPOP Jr. is a wonderful website to use in the classroom. One of the main advantages that teachers can benefit from is the link to state standards. Classrooms around the country are focusing on the standards and this is a great way to search the website for things related to a certain standard. You can search by state, subject, or grade level. All content is aligned to state standards. Another great advantage is that new subscribers can visit the new subscribers page for getting started guides that give step by step explanations on how to use BrainPOP Jr. The page for new subscribers is a great way to help teachers or parents explore the resources BrainPOP Jr. has created in order to integrate it into your classroom or home. One disadvantage is that you must have a subscription to BrainPOP Jr. to access it. They offer a range of flexible subscription packages. However, an advantage is that you can sign up for a free trial to BrainPOP Jr. By doing this, you receive a monthly email newsletter that includes curricular tie-ins, new movies and features, best practices, and the most current BrainPOP news. Another advantage is that no downloading is required. The only other disadvantage I have uncovered is that students with physical disabilities who have trouble typing or using a mouse would find it hard to access this website. Also, students with severe vision problems would be able to hear the website, but not see it. They could possibly work with a partner to use this website.

Who is the audience for this tool?

The targeted audience for this tool is students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. It can also be used by K-3 teachers for great lesson plan ideas.

Where can we learn more about this tool?

You can learn more about BrainPOP Jr. by visiting the BrainPOP Jr. About Us Page or the pdf file that can be found on the More about BrainPOP Jr. Page.

My opinion on this tool...

I think BrainPOP Jr. is a great tool to use in the K-3 classroom. There is such a wide range of topics teachers are sure to find something for almost every standard. I love how the content is aligned with state standards and easily searchable. I also think it's great that this website is a source of differentiated learning because of the diverse content and resources. I would recommend any K-3 teacher use BrainPOP Jr. in his or her classroom.

Shia LaBeouf Address

Shia LaBeouf
Hollywood Actor

Name: Shia Labeouf
Complete Name: Shia Saide LaBeouf
Sex: Male
Birth Date: June 11, 1986

Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA

Shia LaBeouf's Address, Mailing Addresses, Fan Mail, Contact Addresses:

Shia LaBeouf Address #1:
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PMK/HBH
700 San Vicente Boulevard
Suite G 910
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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John Crosby Management
1310 North Spaulding Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 91146
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The Gersh Agency
232 North Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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c/o Teresa Dahlquist
Beverly Hecht Agency

3500 W. Olive Avenue, Suite 1180

Burbank, CA 91505

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Olivia Munn is Topless...Sorta

I'm casting my vote for Olivia Munn as hottest geek alive. As the host of G4's Attack of the Show, she constantly talks about video games, dresses up in geek-fantasy costumes and was given a role in Iron Man2 because of it. Now, her photos of the July/August 2009 issue of Playboy have been released, and they're awesome... or as awesome as non-nude Playboy photos can be.




Still, this is a blow for geeks everywhere - if she can be a sex symbol and still know the different between Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man, than so can you! ... But keep your shirt on until that moment, really, no one wants to see that now.



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Kardashian Bikini Time

Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian (the later who we have never talked about, surprisingly) were in Florida over the weekend, and did what they do best - nothing. The fat Kardashian and the short Kardashian put on bikinis, went to the beach, and gave everyone the privilege of looking at them. My favorite pic is the one with the dude holding the umbrella, because heaven forbid the girls get sun while wearing bathing suits at a beach. Also, here's a fun fact: that dude makes $95,000 a year. Thanks Kardashians, as always, you've made our world a better place.


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Megan Fox is the dumbest celebrity ever ?

The Daily Mail has a very funny and very sad story today. The title of this masterpiece of modern journalism is “Hollywood stars say the silliest things: She may be a movie beauty, but is Megan Fox the DUMBEST star ever?” As you can imagine, someone at The Mail was as flabbergasted as we were when reading some of the ridiculous interviews Megan Fox has given over the past few months. So they decided to put together all of Megan’s dumb quotes in one epically terrible article.

I have to admit, some of these quotes are new to me. Probably because Megan gives about twenty bajillion interviews a week, and she loves to talk about how beautiful, cool, edgy, gross, sexy, dark and hardcore she is, and sometimes some of her gems are lost to us. I’d like to thank The Mail for doing us this great service:

Megan Fox has amazed fans with her ignorance as she travels the world promoting her movies with red-carpet comments and magazine interviews.

She’s quite happy to discuss drugs, sex and even flatulence but take this example of her discussing her ‘Brian’ tattoo - dedicated to on/off boyfriend Brian Austin Green. She said: ‘I wouldn’t regret the tattoo if we weren’t together. I can always have a kid and name him Brian. There are options.’

MailOnline has trawled through two years of clangers to provide an insight into her ‘wisdom’.

During a recent interview with American magazine Entertainment Weekly, Megan questioned her mental health, saying: ‘I think that I’m so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.’

Among her more controversial comments is her call to legalise cannabis. She told British GQ: ‘I hope they legalise it and when they do I’ll be the first f***ing person in line to buy my pack of joints. People look at it like it’s this crazy, hippy, f***ed-up thing to do. And it’s not. I hope they legalise it.’

She told FHM last year: ‘I really enjoy having sex, and that’s offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women slags, which is sad. I haven’t met a lot of men who’ve said, “You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!” That’s because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.’

Megan makes no attempt to hide she is aware of her good looks, declaring: ‘Well, I’m clearly not ugly.’

She also told the June issue of Elle: ‘I’m just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It’s just there. It’s something I don’t have to turn on.’

She told Esquire: ‘I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson, who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve ever learned to prove, like, “Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.”‘

Moving from Scarlett to Britney Spears, Megan admitted she felt sorry for the singer. She said: ‘I used to sit back and think, “Please, Britney Spears has the best life ever - she has everything she could ever want!” But she has one of the worst lives. Her life is a living f***ing nightmare. I have panic attacks thinking about her life.’

In the Entertainment Weekly interview, Megan criticises her performance in the first Transformers movie - despite the fact she is supposed to be promoting the sequel. She said: ‘I’m terrible in it. It’s my first real movie and it’s not honest and not realistic… Unless you’re a seasoned veteran, working with Michael Bay is not about an acting experience.’

Discussing a possible third Transformer movie, she counters: ‘I can’t s**t on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s a*s. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting.’

Further disparaging her industry, Megan told GQ: ‘When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.’

Two years ago, Megan offered up too much information she revealed her questionable hygiene habits. She told FHM: ‘I’m horrible to live with. I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, “Megan, you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn’t flush.”‘

At the Golden Globes in January, a brutally honest Megan told a E! News reporter exactly how insecure she was sharing the red carpet with A-listers like Kate Winslet, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz. She said: ‘I am pretty sure I am a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I’m a tranny. I’m a man. I’m so painfully insecure. I’m on the verge of vomiting now. I am so horrified that I am here, and embarrassed. I’m scared.’

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