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Global educational innovator BrainPOP has launched the UK version of its free educational app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, bringing its popular animated educational resources directly to kids’ fingertips.
The BrainPOP UK Featured Movie App is downloadable from the iTunes App Stores in Ireland and in the UK, where it has already been designated as ‘New and Noteworthy’ in the Education category and has reached number 92 in the Top 100 Free Education Apps.
The app delivers a new animated movie and related quiz every day. Topics are timely and contextual, covering current events, historical figures and milestones, holidays, and much more.
![]() BrainPOP App Store page
The original version of the app, which was launched in April 2010, has been downloaded more than 425,000 times and is recommended by leading publications such as The New York Times and iPhone Life magazine. It has also been featured multiple times on iTunes.
Chris Bradford, the Chief Operating Officer at BrainPOP UK, says:
‘BrainPOP has always been about enabling kids to embrace and engage with learning. We know the explosion in wireless access and mobile devices has splintered education into many new and exciting areas. The BrainPOP UK Featured Movie App is a fun, safe and high quality way for kids, parents and teachers to take BrainPOP with them, where ever they go. And it’s free!’
![]() Example screenshots taken from the BrainPOP UK Featured Movie App With more than 10 million visits a month to its global sites, BrainPOP’s award-winning educational resources are used by students at home and in thousands of schools worldwide.
BrainPOP UK topics span Science, Humanities, English, Maths, Arts, PSHE & Citizenship, Design & Technology, and English as a foreign language. They are tagged to and searchable by the English KS2 & KS3 curricula and guidance, and Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.
To find out more about BrainPOP UK, click here or visit the BrainPOP UK stand at BETT 2011.
BrainPOP UK will be exhibiting on Stand B60 at BETT 2011, which takes place from 12 - 15 January at Kensington Olympia, London. |