{"id":1565,"date":"2009-11-23T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:06:07","slug":"brainpop-jr-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"BrainPop Jr.: Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1567\" href=\"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?attachment_id=1567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1567\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15-300x226.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Picture-15.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;\">What it is:<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpopjr.com\/socialstudies\/holidays\/thanksgiving\/zoom.weml\">BrainPop<\/a> is usually a paid service.\u00a0 This week, BrainPop Jr. is offering their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpopjr.com\/socialstudies\/holidays\/thanksgiving\/zoom.weml\">Thanksgiving with Annie and Mobi <\/a>for free.\u00a0 The video teaches students about the first Thanksgiving and includes plenty of facts about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and the famous harvest feast.\u00a0 The video includes several discussion and dig-deeper questions throughout.\u00a0 The questions appear on a notebook next to the video.\u00a0 You can pause the video when the questions appear for a class discussion or for independent reflection in a journal.\u00a0 You can print out an accompanying notebook page that lists all of the questions from the video.\u00a0 At the end of the video, you can choose to &#8220;learn more&#8221; about the first Thanksgiving with additional activities, crafts, games, suggested reading, drawing, writing, interactive word wall, and quizzes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;\">How to integrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpopjr.com\/socialstudies\/holidays\/thanksgiving\/zoom.weml\">BrainPop Jr.: Thanksgiving<\/a> into the classroom:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpopjr.com\/socialstudies\/holidays\/thanksgiving\/zoom.weml\">BrainPop Jr. Thanksgiving video<\/a> is a fun way to teach about the history of Thanksgiving to younger students.\u00a0 The video is about 4 minutes long and includes multiple opportunities for discussion and check points for understanding.\u00a0 There are also additional follow up activities.\u00a0 Some of the activities are for print (a Thanksgiving &#8220;what I&#8217;m thankful for&#8221; turkey), and some are to be completed on the computer.\u00a0 Watch the video as a class with an interactive whiteboard or projector.\u00a0 Set up your classroom computer with the &#8220;learn more&#8221; activities for students to complete as a center activity.\u00a0 Alternatively, students could watch and complete the activities independently in the computer lab setting.\u00a0 The interactive word wall is a great way for students to learn some of the vocabulary associated with Thanksgiving.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007cff; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;\">Tips:<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Print out the Thanksgiving Notebook for your students to fill out as they watch the video.\u00a0 Thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrscoggin\">@mrscoggin<\/a> for sharing this freebie on Twitter!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Leave a comment and share how you are using BrainPop Jr.: Thanksgiving\u00a0 in your classroom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is: BrainPop is usually a paid service.\u00a0 This week, BrainPop Jr. is offering their Thanksgiving with Annie and Mobi for free.\u00a0 The video teaches students about the first Thanksgiving and includes plenty of facts about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and the famous harvest feast.\u00a0 The video includes several discussion and dig-deeper questions throughout.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,135,442,4,7,8,14,67,188,6],"tags":[1693,1902,1903,1904,212],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-games","category-history","category-interactive-whiteboard","category-language-arts","category-primary-elementary","category-secondary-elementary","category-social-studies","category-teacher-resources","category-video","category-websites","tag-brain-pop","tag-brainpop-jr","tag-first-thanksgiving","tag-holidays","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}