'When in Rome...' New BrainPOP Movies Teach Kids About Ancient Rome

'When in Rome...' New BrainPOP Movies Teach Kids About Ancient Rome K-12 movie producer launches new movie series NEW YORK, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BrainPOP (http://www.brainpop.com/), the leading destination for educational Math, Science, and English animated content for kids, has added four new movies to its growing Social Studies library. BrainPOP's ROMAN REPUBLIC, RISE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, PAX ROMANA, and FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE movies will give students a solid overview of the history of Ancient Rome. With Rome as their backdrop, Tim and his robot pal Moby lead kids through Rome's Republican beginnings, through the rise of Augustus Caesar and the cultural flowering of the Pax Romana, to Rome's destruction by barbarians. From rise to fall, BrainPOP's movies offer a perfect introduction to Rome for use at school or in the home. Each movie is accompanied by a 10-question interactive quiz, crossword puzzle, timeline, comic strip, and its very own fact sheet or experiment. BrainPOP's new ROME movies are part of the company's expansion of its award-winning content library to include topics in ancient and world history. BrainPOP subscribers will be able to access the new ROME movies in the Social Studies section along with recently added topics including titles like SUMERIANS, GREEK GODS, and ATHENS. "As demand for Social Studies topics is on the rise, with teachers requesting new topics daily, we've had a very enthusiastic reaction to our Social Studies series thus far," said BrainPOP Chairman and CEO Avraham Kadar, M.D. "BrainPOP's movies are an important enhancement to the elementary and middle school curriculum, we're pleased to be able to offer such a valuable and useful resource to our subscribers," concluded Dr. Kadar. See http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies for a full list of Social Studies movie titles. About BrainPOP Founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar M.D., BrainPOP is the leading producer of animated educational movies for K-12. Each day 3 million students watch BrainPOP movies and exchange messages with a dynamic cast of five characters who lead users through related activities on the web site: interactive quizzes and games, comic strips and experiments. Fifteen percent of US school districts subscribe to BrainPOP and integrate it into their daily curriculum. BrainPOP has developed partnerships with Time Warner, Popular Science, McGraw- Hill, National Geographic, AOL @ SCHOOL, Yahoo! and Road Runner. BrainPOP has won multiple education and media awards including; The Flash Film Festival, District Administration Curriculum Award, Forbes Best of the Web. BrainPOP's first print title, The Science Almanac For Kids, was published in Summer 2004. Source: BrainPOP CONTACT: Amit Gilon, Director of Marketing and Communications, BrainPOP, +1-212-689-9923, ext. 16, amit@brainpop.com Web site: http://www.brainpop.com/ http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies ------- Profile: International Entertainment