Instructional Software

Name: Brittany Swann

Software Title: BrainPop
URL: http://brainpop.com
Function(s) of Instructional Software (check all that apply):
Drill and Practice
Tutorial
Simulation
Instructional Game
Problem Solving
Features of the Software (check all that apply):
Assessment Monitoring/Reporting (Keeps track of student data and/or generates reports for the teacher)
Allows
teacher to create customized lessons for students
Multi-user or collaborative functions with others in class
Multiuser or collaborative functions with others beyond local class
Accessible to students beyond the school day
Accessible via mobile devices
Multiple languages
Safety, security, and/or privacy features
Strengths of the Software: Very user friendly, it is engaging, covers many topics and content areas, and it is great
for research.
Suggestions for Improvement: Continue making more videos to make this great site even better.
Standards Addressed. See https://www.georgiastandards.org/standards/Pages/BrowseStandards/GPS_by_Grade_Level_K-8.aspx
SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded peoples rights and freedoms in a democracy.
a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (womens rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin
D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B.
Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and Csar Chvez (workers rights).
b. Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.

Grade Level/Content Area(s): 3rd Grade/ Social Studies

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply). See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?
title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: The teacher will introduce the study of famous Americans using the
video of Susan. B Anthony. The students will be asked to remember one important fact about Susan B. Anthony. After
viewing the video , the teacher will list all the students responses. The teacher will divide the students into groups. The
students will go to their assigned listening station and will view the video a second time. Each group will return to the
whole group with one more fact about Susan B. Anthony. Once there are enough facts for each student, the teacher will
support the students in creating a podcast using Audacity. When the podcast is finished, it will be added to the
classroom website for others to view.
Students will select one of the other famous people listed. As a group the students will research their famous person,
collecting information and creating a podcast. All the podcasts will be added to the classroom website for others to
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view.
* Examples of common instructional models include whole group, teacher-led, student self-paced, small group, or
individual learning activities. Use as many of these descriptors or other descriptors as apply.