Gizmos
With Gizmos, kids get it. Gizmos are online simulations that excite curiosity and invite interaction. We ve got over 400 Gizmos in our library covering topics and concepts in math and science for grades 3-12. Gizmos help students dig deeper into subjects and really understand challenging concepts. Gizmos gives everyone something to visualize, manipulate, and compare. That s hundreds of opportunities where students don t just act like scientists and mathematicians. They are. Discover. Analyze. Understand. Gizmos helps students to make connections and draw conclusions with an interactive design that supports a manipulation of variables and what-if experimentation. Every Gizmo comes with extensive teaching resources that help make planning and teaching easy. Whole group, small group or 1:1 lessons, we ve got you covered. Try it today at explorelearning.com >>
Gizmos really allow students to go deeper in terms of problem solving and critical thinking. Assistant Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, FL
Like to Play? So Do We! Play, explore and experience the ah-ha! moment with Gizmos. GROWING PLANTS GIZMO In the Growing Plants Gizmo, investigate the growth of three common garden plants: tomatoes, beans, and turnips. Observe the effect of each variable on height, mass, leaf color and leaf size. Discover concepts: Interactive controls, like sliders and moveable objects, allow you to set up and run your simulation. Hit play to see the results or reset to try something different. You re in control. Analyze data: Visualizations, screenshots and graphing tools help you easily capture and compare results from experiments. Go deeper: Assessment questions, inquiry-based lesson plans and customizable activities help create more moments to explore, discover and apply new concepts.
Support the latest standards and assessments ExploreLearning Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments. With alignments to the latest state and national standards, a quick standards search gives teachers the perfect Gizmo to get students ready for success. Many sample test items on new computer-based assessments feature interactive tools directly integrated into the questions. These Gizmo-like questions feature similar content and functions as the simulations in our library. MATH PARCC sample test for seventh grade: This sample test item asks students to describe how the graph of the time/ distance data would support their answers. SCIENCE Fifth-grade science sample test item from Utah: This sample test item asks students to add the Moon in the correct position for a New Moon. Distance-Time Graphs Gizmo: Observe the relationship between a runner s motion, time, and distance on a graph to learn what slope indicates and calculate speed. Phases of the Moon Gizmo: Learn how the positions of the Moon, Earth, and Sun are related to the phases of the Moon. Upon completion of the Gizmo students would easily be able to complete the assessment diagram by selecting the correct position of the Moon during the New Moon phase.
Gizmo Offerings SCIENCE GIZMOS Big Bang Theory Building Pangaea Carbon Cycle Cell Structure Chemical Equations Circuit Builder Circulatory System Coastal Winds and Clouds Coral Reefs Density Laboratory Digestive System Disease Spread Earthquakes 1 Recording Station Element Builder Energy Conversions Fan Cart Physics Food Chain Forest Ecosystem Free Fall Tower Gravity Pitch Growing Plants Ionic Bonds Melting Points Mineral Identification Mouse Genetics (One Trait) Natural Selection ph Analysis Phases of the Moon Photosynthesis Lab Plants and Snails Reaction Energy Rock Cycle Roller Coaster Physics Solar System Trebuchet Water Cycle Weathering and hundreds more! MATH GIZMOS Adding and Subtracting Integers Balancing Blocks (Volume) Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions) Cannonball Clowns Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems) Chocomatic (Multiplication, Arrays and Area) Distance-Time Graphs Equivalent Algebraic Expressions Exponents and Power Rules Factor Trees Fido s Flower Bed (Perimeter and Area) Fraction Garden Function Machines Mean, Median and Mode No Alien Left Behind (Division with Remainders) Order of Operations Pattern Finder Percents, Fractions and Decimals Points in a Coordinate Plane Polygon Angle Sum Prisms and Cylinders Pythagorean Theorem Road Trip (Problem Solving) Rotations, Reflections and Translations Rounding Whole Numbers Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Solving Two-Step Equations Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability) Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line) Unit Conversions Using Algebraic Equations and hundreds more!
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