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BrainPOP's Browse by Curriculum tool makes it quick and easy for teachers to plan lessons using BrainPOP topics and activities that support what they're teaching in their ELA or Science core curriculum.

If you are a teacher working on a lesson plan, you can choose your core ELA or Science curriculum and grade level to discover BrainPOP 3-8 and BrainPOP Jr. topics and activities that line up with the unit you're teaching to build background knowledge and review key skills, all right from your homepage.

Key Features

Navigate to BrainPOP & BrainPOP Jr. topics and activities that support lesson planning based on the core curriculum unit being taught
Browse by Curriculum remembers the last core program and grade level chosen for next time

What You'll Need

An individual teacher or admin account included in a School or Homeschool plan
A subscription that includes BrainPOP (3-8+) and/or BrainPOP Jr.

Browsing by Curriculum

When you log in to BrainPOP (3-8+) or BrainPOP Jr., look for the Browse by Curriculum tool. Depending on your screen size (such as a desktop vs. mobile browser) it will appear in the right or left section of your homepage.

Depending on what you're teaching, choose Science or ELA
Choose your core curriculum program from the Select a Program menu
Choose the grade level you are teaching from the Grade Level menu
- Once you've chosen a program and grade level, your choices will be remembered the next time you use Browse by Curriculum
Choose View Activities

You'll land on the Browse by Curriculum navigation page.

In the header tile, you will see the title of the program and level you are currently browsing within the program's sequence.

Below the header tile, the navigation page organizes the lesson sequence for the core program into tiles by Unit, Module, Lesson, Instructional Focus, Week, etc. (the naming will vary depending on the core program).

Choose the left or right arrows in the header to advance or go back within the content level you are on: by grade, unit, module, lesson, etc.
Choose a tile below the header and continue navigating to what you are planning to teach

When you arrive on the particular lesson you are teaching from the curriculum, you'll see BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr. topics relevant to that lesson listed in the sidebar, and relevant activities from the topic that's currently selected featured in the main area:

To navigate the aligned topics and activities:

Click a topic from the left sidebar to see relevant activities from that topic
Click an activity card to preview and assign the activity
To view all of the learning activities offered by that topic, and to preview of the concepts and state standards covered by the topic, choose More from this topic > below the activity cards

You'll find the topics organized into two categories, Build Background and Review Skills:

Build Background

In the Build Background category, you'll find topics that deepen and strengthen students' comprehension of the concepts covered by the curriculum.

Relevant topics will appear in the Build Background category for both ELA and Science curricula.

Review Skills

In the Review Skills category, you'll find topics that reinforce key ELA skills that support the concepts covered by the curriculum.

Relevant topics will appear in the Review Skills section for ELA curricula.

Next Steps

Once you've found the topics and activities you want to teach in your lesson plan, try creating an assignment for your students containing any activities you want them to work on independently!

Frequently Asked Questions

What core programs does Browse by Curriculum support?
What does it mean if a curriculum tile says "Unavailable"?
Why am I not seeing all of the activities for a topic that's aligned to my curriculum?
My school has a BrainPOP Science subscription. Why don't I see BrainPOP Science topics in Browse by Curriculum?

What core programs does Browse by Curriculum support?

Browse by Curriculum currently supports these core curriculum programs:

ELA Core Curricula:

Amplify ELA (2020)
Amplify CKLA 2nd Edition (2022)
Amplify CKLA 3rd Edition (2025)
Benchmark Advance (2022)
Bluebonnet Learning 1st Edition
EL Education K-5 Language Arts Curriculum (2017)
HMH Into Literature (2020)
HMH Into Reading (2020)
Great Minds Wit & Wisdom (2023)
McGraw Hill Wonders (2023)
Savvas myView Literacy (2025)

Science Core Curricula:

Amplify Science (2018)
HMH Into Science (2021)
HMH Into Science Texas (2024)
OpenSciEd Elementary (2026)
OpenSciEd Middle School (2026)

If you use a core curriculum program that isn't yet supported in Browse by Curriculum and you would like to see it added, we encourage you to let us know by sharing your feedback with us!

What does it mean if a curriculum tile says "Unavailable"?

Each curriculum tile will show the number of topics that support it — if a curriculum tile says "Unavailable," that means we weren't able to identify BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr. topics aligned closely enough to the curriculum lesson to confidently support it.

If there are topics you'd like to see to support a particular lesson in your curriculum, we encourage you to let us know by sharing your feedback with us!

Why am I not seeing all of the activities for a topic that's aligned to my curriculum?

To make curriculum planning as quick and easy as possible using Browse by Curriculum, we focus on the most impactful activities a given topic offers when displaying activities that support lesson planning alongside a core curriculum, and keep it limited to no more than five.

To view all of the activities a topic offers (including creative tools like Make-a-Movie or Creative Coding) choose More from this topic > below the activity cards.

My school has a BrainPOP Science subscription. Why don't I see BrainPOP Science topics in Browse by Curriculum?

For now, only science topics in BrainPOP (3-8+) and BrainPOP Jr. are supported by core alignments in Browse by Curriculum.

While our BrainPOP Science Investigations and Individual Resources do support key concepts in popular middle school Science cores, we have not currently aligned BrainPOP Science to the curricula we support in the Browse by Curriculum tool.

BrainPOP Science uses the investigation model to develop scientific thinking and explore science concepts using the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning process, while science topics in BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. use the movie and related activity model that BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. are known for.

Browse by Curriculum