BrainPOP

An image from BrainPOP's Simple Machines Animation

BrainPOP is a educational website which creates animated, curricular content intended to engage students, support educators, and consequently increase student achievement. With its ability to be incorporated into traditional, blended, and "flipped" learning settings, BrainPOP supports individual, team, and whole-class learning by introduce new topics and complex concepts in language which students are easily able to understand.  At its most basic level, BrainPOP is a great educational resource for teachers which allows downloads of pre-determined free content however if you choose to subscribe be warned it is not cheap (making it out of reach for most pre-service educators). If you are like me and prefer access to the animations for without the cost then you can download BrainPOP or BrainPOPJr's movie of the week app via iTunes and watch some for free. I do love the content of this website, it is just a pity the cost makes it so far out of reach.