What are Gizmos?
Grades 3-12
With ExploreLearning Gizmos, students can model observable phenomena, take on the role of STEM professionals, and get hands-on with science and math concepts using inquiry and exploration. Events that might typically take days, weeks, or years to observe can now be experienced in classrooms with the world’s largest library of virtual simulations and labs.
- Inquiry-based instruction: Gizmos foster a deep understanding of STEM concepts through interactive, inquiry-based modeling and experimentation.
- Research-based success: Rigorous independent efficacy studies show that Gizmos math and science simulations increase student classroom engagement, content knowledge, scientific skills, and standardized test scores.
- Engaging and effective: Gizmos allow students to experience phenomena and concepts, capture and compare experiment results, make predictions, and share findings with others.
- Classroom support: Each Gizmo includes pre-made, customizable lesson materials, including teacher guides, vocabulary, and student activities. 550+ Gizmos are aligned to standards, textbooks, and curricula to support and enhance instruction.
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The Gizmos pilot program
With a pilot, your staff and students can experience the power of Gizmos for an extended period! Leverage guided implementation for multiple teachers to make a thorough and effective product evaluation.
Pilot details:
- Allows two or more classrooms of students to use Gizmos for 30+ days (grades 3+)
- Provides free training and implementation support for teachers
- Enables administrators to review student results during the pilot period
Gizmos bring adaptive and research-based success
Gizmos simulations use a learning approach validated by extensive research as a highly effective way to build conceptual understanding in math and science. Gizmos earned the Digital Promise Research-Based Design Product Certification, which recognizes products that center empirical research on learning in their design.
Learn more about the impact of Gizmos on student achievement!
Rapid impact after implementation
ESSA Tier 3 research compared the frequency of Gizmos usage and performance on NGSS-aligned state assessments for 21,000+ high school students across 93 urban high schools. Students at schools with higher Gizmos usage were 1.3x more likely to meet or exceed test proficiency standards. The more widely and frequently Gizmos were used across a school, the greater the likelihood of students meeting or exceeding proficiency standards.
Are you interested in measuring student growth with additional research opportunities? Teachers, we invite you to apply for our Collab Crew user-testing program. Administrators, please complete an interest form and let our research team know you are interested in learning more about our current research opportunities.
Discover Science4Us for early science
Grades K-2
Are you looking for early childhood science solutions? Designed for your youngest elementary learners, Science4Us features 28 modules full of 1000s of online and offline activities that take as little as ten minutes to complete.
Through literacy-infused science lessons built around the 5E Instructional Model, Science4Us helps students develop foundational science knowledge using interactive games, songs, virtual notebooks, hands-on experiments, and more. Science4Us curriculum is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and supports kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd-grade science.
Content areas:
- Inquiry
- Physical Science
- Life Science
- Earth & Space Science
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