NEWS RELEASE

BrainPOP's Two New Movies offer Fun Current Events Study

Social studies movies teach children about Presidential Elections and Olympic Games

New York - June 21, 2004 - BrainPOP, the leading producer of animated educational movies for K-12, has added two new movies to its growing Social Studies library. BrainPOP's Election and Olympics movies are now available for summer learning and preparation for back to school.

BrainPOP's newest social studies movies will keep students up to date on current events during their summer recess. Parents can use the Olympics and Election movies to help maintain children's learning momentum during the summer, making it a starting point for discussion, reading and investigative projects. Teachers can integrate the movie as a curriculum "bridge" from summer break to the start of the school year, expanding on the movie's features with activities such as reading or creating presidential biographies, democratic exercises such as classroom ballots, or contacting elected representatives, just to name a few. Each movie is accompanied by a 10-question interactive quiz, an activity page, a timeline, a how-to feature, a comic strip for debate, and its very own experiment that students can try out in school or at home.

"It's important for our kids to understand what's going on in the news, and to integrate an awareness of current events into their daily lives", said BrainPOP Chairman and CEO Avraham Kadar, M.D. "BrainPOP aims to keep kids up to date and stimulate their curiosity with movies that address the very news topics that kids are sure to be hearing about this summer and fall."

BrainPOP users will be able to access the Election and Olympic movies in the Social Studies section on www.BrainPOP.com. New Social Studies movies will be added throughout the school year. See www.brainpop.com/socialstudies for movie titles and www.brainpop.com/teachers for standards correlations and subscription information.

About BrainPOP

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 the user through related activities on the web site - interactive quizzes and games, comic strips and experiments. 15% 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 Schwab Learning. 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, launched in Summer 2004.

For more information, contact:
Yves Saada
Chief Operating Officer
212-689-9923 ext 11
yves@brainpop.com

Kati Elliott
KEH Communications
410-975-9638
kati@kehcomm.com