South Florida News from ExploreLearning : Ideas

Quick FCAT - Nature of Science Prep! (Quick Virtual Science Fair)

Hi Everyone!

I know you are pushing hard before FCATs - I know that Gizmos have already helped your students prepare, and you are putting finishing touches on your preps.  I know many of you have seen this if you've trained with me, but just in case you forgot about it, here is a very quick and powerful tool to cover experimental design.  It can be done whole class, small groups, or individual.  You use screenshots to help fill in the design, and there is less writeup so that the focus is on designing the experiment (with one variable). Here's the file ( Download Mini_sci_fair ) and it has a rubric/standards too!

Let me know if you need anything!

One of my favorite new Gizmos! Measuring Volume!

One of my favorite new Gizmos is the fairly new Measuring Volume one!  Kids can use the sink for hours and never leave a impact on the enviroment!  There's an exploration and a practice setting - the practice one guides the student on using the meniscus to determine accurate volume measurements - yay, what a time saver!

FCAT & Gizmos

Here are some inspirational slides to help you find conceptually powerful and engaging lessons to remediate benchmarks in preparation for the FCAT...

These are the FL DOE sample test items correlated to specific Gizmos!

Here is an Action Plan that you may want to use at PLC meetings to help your staff: Download FCAT-EOC-Gizmo_Action_Plan

 

High School Gizmo Correlation Resources

Here are documents that will help you prepare your students for their EOC's and other exams using Gizmos. The documents have links to specific Gizmos embedded in the text. Enjoy!

• Download FL_Algebra_I_standards_correlated_Gizmos
• Download FL_Geometry_standards_correlated_Gizmos
• Download BiologyFL11Sp_EOC_Gizmos Embedded_FINAL

Middle School Benchmark Resources

Happy New Year! I've created easy spreadsheet documents that will help you use Gizmos to remediate particular standards in response to your diagnostic results. Each standard is listed in order on the left, Gizmo in center, and standard + explanation on the right.  The Gizmos are clickable hyperlinks that take you straight to the Gizmo. Enjoy!

Science:

• Download FL_Grade_6_science_benchmarks_Gizmos
• Download FL_Grade_7_science_benchmarks_Gizmos
• Download FL_Grade_8_science_benchmarks_Gizmos
  

 

Math:

• Download FL_Grade_6_math_benchmarks_Gizmos
• Download FL_Grade_7_math_benchmarks_Gizmos
• Download FL_Grade_8_math_benchmarks_Gizmos
• Download FL_Algebra_I_standards_correlated_Gizmos
  

Happy New Year! Here's a Hybrid Shark!

Hope that you are all rested and ready for the rest of the school year!  Here is an interesting news article about the hybridization of a shark species off of Australia (I know, it's a Yahoo News article - I'll try to get an actual journal article soon!) Hybrid Shark Found Off of Australia

Here are some great Gizmos for studying evolution:

Rainfall and Bird Beaks Gizmo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evolution: Natural and Artificial Selection

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I am your Project Manager, and you can contact me for trainings, help, and ideas. I used Gizmos for many years during my 8 years teaching 7^th/8^th grade in South Florida. I look forward to creating a Gizmo community in which we can share best practices so that everyone gets help or inspiration...I will use this site to update you on training announcements, cool science or math ideas, how-to videos, and files that you may need. Check back often!

My contact information is:

Desiree Sujoy

desiree.sujoy@explorelearning.com