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Scientific Investigation and Math Inquiry with Gizmos
SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE
Gizmos to follow the Sixth Grade Science Pacing Chart
Measure the temperature on wet and dry bulb thermometers to determine relative humidity. Measure the dew point by cooling a bucket of …
Learn about standard symbols used in meteorology to construct weather maps. Rain, sleet, snow, temperature, cloud cover, wind speed …
Observe daily weather conditions in a coastal region. Measure temperatures and wind speeds at any location and use this data to map …
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Within this simulated region of land, daytime's rising temperature and the falling temperature at night can be measured, along with heat …
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- Energy Conversions
Where does energy come from? How does energy get from one place to another? Find out how electrical current is generated and how living …
Within this simulated region of land, daytime's rising temperature and the falling temperature at night can be measured, along with heat …
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MARKING PERIOD 2
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION FOR ALL GRADES
A variety of Gizmos that can be used across multiple grade levels for independent scientific investigation throughout the school year.
Designed For: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade Science
Investigate the growth of three common garden plants: tomatoes, beans, and turnips. You can change the amount of light each plant gets, …
Study the thickness of birds' beaks over a five year period as you control the yearly rainfall on an isolated island. As the …
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Shine sunlight through a prism and use a thermometer to measure the temperature in different regions of the spectrum. The thermometer can …
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Observe the spread of disease through a group of people. The methods of transmission can be chosen and include person-to-person, airborne, …
Perform experiments with several seed types to see what conditions yield the highest germination (sprouting) rate. Three different types …
Plant seeds and watch how many sprout. Examine what factors affect germination. Vary the amount of heat, water, and light the seeds …
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Observe the gender of birds and geckos as they hatch in an incubator. Vary the temperature of the incubator and measure the percentages …
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Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Using the scientific method, control the environmental conditions for a fictional alien organism in order to learn how the organism …
Find the effect of length, mass, and angle on the period of a pendulum. The pendulum is attached to a clock that can be adjusted to tell …
Study the production and use of gases by plants and animals. Measure the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in a test tube containing snails …
Observe the populations of grass, prairie dogs, ferrets and foxes in a prairie ecosystem. Investigate feeding relationships and determine …
Observe and manipulate the populations of four creatures (trees, deer, bears, and mushrooms) in a forest. Investigate the …
Measure the temperature and oxygen content of a pond over the course of a day. Then go fishing to see what types of fish live in the …
Observe frogs jumping around on colored lily pads. Find, test, and reason about patterns you see in their jumping.
Measure the height, diameter, and circumference of trees in a forest. Count growth rings to determine the age of each tree. Grow the trees …
Study photosynthesis in a variety of conditions. Oxygen production is used to measure the rate of photosynthesis. Light intensity, …
Explore the motion of particles as they bounce around from one side of a room to the other through an adjustable gap or partition. The mass …
Reaction Time 1 (Graphs and Statistics)
Test your reaction time by catching a falling ruler or clicking a target. Create a data set of experiment results, and calculate the …
Measure the time required to write a word when the mouse behaves in a normal fashion and when the direction of motion is reversed from left …
Measure your reaction time by clicking your mouse as quickly as possible when visual or auditory stimuli are presented. The …
Test your hearing range by listening to low-, medium-, and high-frequency sounds. Compare the relative loudness of sounds at each frequency …
SIXTH GRADE MATH
Gizmos to follow the 6th Grade Math Pacing Chart
6.2 a-d: Numbers & Number Sense: Fractions, Decimals, Percent & Ratios
Part-to-part and Part-to-whole Ratios
Compare a ratio represented by an area with its percent, fraction, and decimal forms.
- Percents and Proportions-Find a part from the percent and whole, a percent from the part and whole, or a whole from the part and percent using a graphic model.
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Conduct a phone poll of citizens in a small neighborhood to determine their response to a yes-or-no question. Use the results to estimate …
Ordering Percents, Fractions and Decimals
Compare and order numbers represented as percents, fractions, and decimals using area grids and a number line.
Ordering Percents, Fractions, and Decimals Greater Than 1
Compare and order numbers greater than 1 using area grids and a number line. Examine the numbers represented as percents, improper …
Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Represent a quantity given by a shaded region as an improper fraction and as a mixed number. Experiment with different shaded regions …
Percents, Fractions, and Decimals
Compare a quantity represented by an area with its percent, fraction, and decimal forms.
Comparing and Ordering Decimals
- Use grids to model decimal numbers and compare them graphically. Then compare the numbers on a number line.
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Comparing and Ordering Fractions
Use area models to compare and order fractions. Also see a visual representation of the least common denominator of two fractions. With …
Modeling Decimals (Area and Grid Models)
- Model and compare decimals using area models. Set the number of sections in each model to 1, 10, or 100, and then click in the models to …
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Treasure Hunter (Decimals on the Number Line)
Drive a desert highway searching for buried treasure. Learn to use the car's tens, ones, tenths, and hundredths gears, along with a GPS …
6.4 & 6.6: Computation & Estimation: add,sub,mult,dividing fractions
Divide fractions using area models. Adjust the numerators and denominators of the divisor and dividend and see how the area model …
- Choose the correct steps to divide mixed numbers. Use step-by-step feedback to diagnose and correct incorrect steps.
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Multiply two fractions using an area model. Vary the vertical area to change one fraction and vary the horizontal area to change the …
- Choose the correct steps to multiply mixed numbers. Use the step-by-step feedback to diagnose incorrect steps.
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Adding Fractions (Fraction Tiles)
Add fractions with the help of the Fractionator, a fraction-tile-making machine in the Gizmo. Model sums by placing the tiles on …
Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Find the sum or difference of two fractions with unlike denominators using graphic models. Find the least common denominator graphically.
Independent and Dependent Events
Compare the theoretical and experimental probabilities of drawing colored marbles from a bag. Record results of successive draws to find …
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Step right up! Spin the big wheel! Each spin can result in no prize, a small prize, or a big prize. The wheel can be spun by 1, 10, or …
Explore the graphs of two inequalities and find their union or intersection. Determine the relationship between the endpoints of …
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Solve one-step inequalities in one variable. Graph the solution on a number line.
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Solve one-step inequalities in one variable. Graph the solution on a number line.
6.17: Patterns, Functions, & Algebra: geometric & arithmetic sequences
Find the value of individual terms in arithmetic sequences using graphs of the sequences and direct computation. Vary the common …
Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
Find the value of individual terms in an arithmetic or geometric sequence using graphs of the sequence and direct computation. Vary …
Earth Science
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ES.4a-b: Rocks & Minerals: Formation, Physical & Chemical Properties
Observe and measure the properties of a mineral sample, and then use a key to identify the mineral. Students can observe the color, …
ES.5a-c: Rocks: Types Based on Mineral Composition
Try to classify a dozen different rock samples based on their appearance. Common characteristics of each major rock type are described. …
Play the role of a piece of rock moving through the rock cycle. Select a starting location and follow many possible paths throughout …
ES.6 a-d: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
Where does energy come from? How does energy get from one place to another? Find out how electrical current is generated and how living …
Seventh Grade Math
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7.14: Patterns Functions and Algebra: Solve One-Step & Two-Step Problems
Modeling One-Step Equations - Activity B
Solve a linear equation using a tile model. Use feedback to diagnose incorrect steps.
- Solve a two-step equation using a cup-and-counter model. Use step-by-step feedback to diagnose and correct incorrect steps.
Solving Equations by Graphing Each Side
Solve an equation by graphing each side and finding the intersection of the lines. Vary the coefficients in the equation and explore how …
Choose the correct steps to solve a two-step equation. Use the feedback to diagnose incorrect steps.
Plan a cross-country road trip through various U.S. state capitals. First choose a vehicle to drive, and then fill up the tank with gas …
7.12: Patterns Functions and Algebra: FunctionsDetermine if a relation is a function using the mapping diagram, ordered pairs, or the graph of the relation. Drag arrows from the domain …
Drop a number into a function machine, and see what number comes out! You can use one of the six pre-set function machines, or program …
Function Machines 3 (Functions and Problem Solving)
- Drop a number into a function machine, and see what number comes out! You can use one of the six pre-set function machines, or program …
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7.2: Number and Number Sense: Patterns and Sequences
- Find the value of individual terms in arithmetic sequences using graphs of the sequences and direct computation. Vary the common …
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Explore geometric sequences by varying the initial term and the common ratio and examining the graph. Compute specific terms in the …
- Find the value of individual terms in an arithmetic or geometric sequence using graphs of the sequence and direct computation. Vary …
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Comparing and Ordering Decimals
Use grids to model decimal numbers and compare them graphically. Then compare the numbers on a number line.
Comparing and Ordering Fractions
- Use area models to compare and order fractions. Also see a visual representation of the least common denominator of two fractions. With …
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Modeling Fractions (Area Models)
Model and compare fractions using area models. Set the denominators with the arrow buttons, and then set the numerators with the arrow …
- Compare and order numbers represented as percents, fractions, and decimals using area grids and a number line.
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Compare and order numbers greater than 1 using area grids and a number line. Examine the numbers represented as percents, improper …
Find a part from the percent and whole, a percent from the part and whole, or a whole from the part and percent using a graphic model.
Explore the meaning of square roots using an area model. Use the side length of a square to find the square root of a decimal number or …
7.9: Probability & Statistics: Theoretical & Experimental Probability
Experiment with spinners and compare the experimental probability of particular outcomes to the theoretical probability. Select the number …
Spin the Big Wheel! (Probability)
Step right up! Spin the big wheel! Each spin can result in no prize, a small prize, or a big prize. The wheel can be spun by 1, 10, or …
- Experiment with spinners and compare the experimental probability of a particular outcome to the theoretical probability. Select the number …
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8th Grade Math
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8.16: Patterns Functions and Algebra: Graphing Linear Equations
Defining a Line with Two Points
Place two points wherever you like. Compute the slope of the line between them. View the equation of that line in slope‑intercept …
Point-Slope Form of a Line - Activity A
Compare the point-slope form of a linear equation to its graph. Vary the coefficients and explore how the graph changes in response.Slope-Intercept Form of a Line - Activity B
Compare the slope-intercept form of a linear equation to its graph. Vary the coefficients and explore how the graph changes in response.
Compare the standard form of a linear equation to its graph. Vary the coefficients and explore how the graph changes in response.
8.3: Computation & Estimation: Solving Problems with Proportions Data
Add real numbers using dynamic arrows on a number line. Find the sum of the numbers at the end of the final arrow. Compare the …
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Apply ratios and proportions to find the weight of a person on the moon (or on another planet). Weigh an object on Earth and on the moon …
Part-to-part and Part-to-whole Ratios
Compare a ratio represented by an area with its percent, fraction, and decimal forms.
Apply markups and discounts using interactive "percent rulers." Improve number sense for percents with this dynamic, visual tool. …
Conduct a phone poll of citizens in a small neighborhood to determine their response to a yes-or-no question. Use the results to estimate …
Proportions and Common Multipliers
Complete a proportion using a graphical model. Use counters to fill cells in the numerators and denominators given. Use the visual …
Find the current balance and the interest charged on an investment using the graph of the interest function and by directly calculating.
Modeling and Solving Two-Step Equations
Solve a two-step equation using a cup-and-counter model. Use step-by-step feedback to diagnose and correct incorrect steps.
Solving Equations by Graphing Each Side
Solve an equation by graphing each side and finding the intersection of the lines. Vary the coefficients in the equation and explore how …
Choose the correct steps to solve a two-step equation. Use the feedback to diagnose incorrect steps.
Compound Inequalities
Explore the graphs of two inequalities and find their union or intersection. Determine the relationship between the endpoints of …
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Solve one-step inequalities in one variable. Graph the solution on a number line.
- 8.5: Computation and Estimation Perfect Squares and square roots
Square Roots
Explore the meaning of square roots using an area model. Use the side length of a square to find the square root of a decimal number or …
Ordering and Approximating Square Roots
Order square roots on a number line. Approximate the square roots using the side lengths of square regions in a grid.
8.10 a,b: Geometry: Pythagorean Theorem
Explore the distance formula as an application of the Pythagorean theorem. Learn to see any two points as the endpoints of the hypotenuse …
Build right triangles in an interactive geoboard and build squares on the sides of the triangles to discover the Pythagorean Theorem.
Pythagorean Theorem - Activity B
Explore the Pythagorean Theorem using a dynamic right triangle. Examine a visual, geometric application of the Pythagorean Theorem, using …
8.6: Measurement: Angle Relationships
Investigating Angle Theorems - Activity B
Explore the properties of complementary, supplementary, vertical, and adjacent angles using a dynamic figure.
Dilate a figure and investigate its resized image. See how scaling a figure affects the coordinates of its vertices, both in (x, y) form …
Participate in an old-fashioned quilting bee and create a colorful, symmetrical quilt. Quilts can be created with a vertical, horizontal, …
Reshape and resize a figure and examine how its reflection changes in response. Move the line of reflection and explore how the reflection …
Create your own rock art with ancient symbols. Each symbol can be translated, rotated, and reflected. After exploring each type …
Rotations, Reflections and Translations
Rotate, reflect, and translate a figure in the plane. Compare the translated figure to the original figure.
Algebra I
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A.7d: Equations & Inequalities: Graphing Linear Function & Inequalities
Determine if a relation is a function from the mapping diagram, ordered pairs, or graph. Use the graph to determine if it is linear.
Compare the graph of a linear function to its rule and to a table of its values. Change the function by dragging two points on the …
Slope-Intercept Form of a Line - Activity B
Compare the slope-intercept form of a linear equation to its graph. Vary the coefficients and explore how the graph changes in response.
A.6a: Equations & Inequalities: Slope of a Linear Equation
Explore the slope of a line, and learn how to calculate slope. Adjust the line by moving points that are on the line, and see how its …
Function Machines 2 (Functions, Tables, and Graphs)
Drop a number into a function machine, and see what number comes out! You can use one of the six pre-set function machines, or program …
Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems) - Activity B
Experiment with a system of two lines representing a cat-and-mouse chase. Adjust the speeds of the cat and mouse and the head start of …
A.6b: Equations & Inequalities: Writing Linear Equations
Create a graph of a runner's position versus time and watch the runner complete a 40-meter dash based on the graph you made. Notice …
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Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems) - Activity B
Experiment with a system of two lines representing a cat-and-mouse chase. Adjust the speeds of the cat and mouse and the head start of …
A.4e-f; A.5d: Equations & Inequalities: Systems
Solving Linear Systems (Slope-Intercept Form)
Solve systems of linear equations, given in slope-intercept form, both graphically and algebraically. Use a draggable green point to …
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Solving Linear Systems (Standard Form)
Solve systems of linear equations, written in standard form. Explore what it means to solve systems algebraically (with substitution …
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Solving Linear Systems (Matrices and Special Solutions)
Explore systems of linear equations, and how many solutions a system can have. Express systems in matrix form. See how the determinant of …
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Plan a cross-country road trip through various U.S. state capitals. First choose a vehicle to drive, and then fill up the tank with gas …
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Solve one-step inequalities in one variable. Graph the solution on a number line.
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Systems of Linear Inequalities (Slope-intercept form) - Activity A
Compare a system of linear inequalities to its graph. Vary the coefficients and inequality symbols in the system and explore how the …
Geometry
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G.5: Triangles: Triangle Inequality
Place constraints on a triangle and determine what classifications must apply to the triangle.
Triangle Angle Sum - Activity B
Measure the interior angles of a triangle and find the sum. Examine whether that sum is the same for all triangles. Also, discover how …
Classifying Quadrilaterals - Activity B
Apply constraints to a quadrilateral, and then reshape and resize it. Classify the figure by its constraints. Explore the …
Apply constraints to a dynamic quadrilateral. Then drag its vertices around. Determine which constraints guarantee that the quadrilateral …
Discover the inequalities related to the side lengths and angle measures of a triangle. Reshape and resize the triangle to confirm that …
G.6: Triangles: Congruent Triangles
Make a biconditional statement from a given definition using word tiles. Use both symbolic form and standard English form.
Make a conditional statement from a given fact using word tiles. Use both symbolic form and standard English form.
Apply constraints to two right triangles. Then drag their vertices around under those conditions. Determine under what conditions …
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Apply constraints to two triangles. Then drag the vertices of the triangles around and determine which constraints guarantee congruence.
G.7: Triangles: Similar Triangles
Make a biconditional statement from a given definition using word tiles. Use both symbolic form and standard English form.
Make a conditional statement from a given fact using word tiles. Use both symbolic form and standard English form.
Perimeters and Areas of Similar Figures
Manipulate two similar figures and vary the scale factor to see what changes are possible under similarity. Explore how the perimeters …
Vary the scale factor and rotation of an image and compare it to the preimage. Determine how the angle measures and side lengths of the …
G.8: Triangles: Right Triangle Relationships
Explore the distance formula as an application of the Pythagorean theorem. Learn to see any two points as the endpoints of the hypotenuse …
Pythagorean Theorem with a Geoboard
Build right triangles in an interactive geoboard and build squares on the sides of the triangles to discover the Pythagorean Theorem.
Pythagorean Theorem - Activity B
Explore the Pythagorean Theorem using a dynamic right triangle. Examine a visual, geometric application of the Pythagorean Theorem, using …
Sine and Cosine Ratios - Activity A
Reshape and resize a right triangle and examine how the sine of angle A and the cosine of angle A change.
Reshape and resize a right triangle and examine how the sine of angle A, the cosine of angle A, and the tangent of angle A change.
Reshape and resize a right triangle and examine how the tangent of angle A changes.
Algebra II
Gizmos to follow the Algebra II Pacing Chart
AII.3: Expressions and Operations: Complex Numbers
Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
Find the value of individual terms in an arithmetic or geometric sequence using graphs of the sequence and direct computation. Vary …
AII.4b: Equations and Inequalities: Solving Quadratic Equations
Quadratics in Polynomial Form - Activity A
Compare the graph of a quadratic to its equation in polynomial form. Vary the coefficients of the equation and explore how the graph …
Investigate the factors of a quadratic through its graph and through its equation. Vary the roots of the quadratic and examine how the …
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Quadratics in Vertex Form - Activity A
Compare the graph of a quadratic to its equation in vertex form. Vary the terms of the equation and explore how the graph changes in response.
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AII.4c & d: Equations and Inequalities: Rational and Radical Equations
Translate algebraic expressions into English phrases, and translate English phrases into algebraic expressions. Read the expression or …
General Form of a Rational Function
Compare the equation of a rational function to its graph. Multiply or divide the numerator and denominator by linear factors and explore …
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Simplifying Radical Expressions - Activity A
Simplify a radical expression. Use step-by-step feedback to diagnose any incorrect steps.
Operations with Radical Expressions
Identify the correct steps to complete operations with a radical expression. Use step-by-step feedback to diagnose incorrect steps.
Rational Numbers, Opposites, and Absolute Values
Use a number line to compare rational numbers. Change values by dragging points on the number line. Compare the opposites and …
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Compare the graph of a radical function to its equation. Vary the terms of the equation. Explore how the graph is translated and …
Compare the graph of a rational function to its equation. Vary the terms of the equation and explore how the graph is translated …
AII.7a–c: Functions and Statistics: Find the domain, range and zeros
Determine if a relation is a function using the mapping diagram, ordered pairs, or the graph of the relation. Drag arrows from the domain …
Polynomials and Linear Factors
Create a polynomial as a product of linear factors. Vary the values in the linear factors to see how their connection to the roots of …
Compare the graph of a linear function to its rule and to a table of its values. Change the function by dragging two points on the …
AII.8: Functions and Statistics: Representations of Functions
Polynomials and Linear Factors
Create a polynomial as a product of linear factors. Vary the values in the linear factors to see how their connection to the roots of …
AII.6: Functions & Statistics: Shape & Behavior - Polynomial Functions
Compare the graph of a linear function to its rule and to a table of its values. Change the function by dragging two points on the …
Exponential Functions - Activity B
Explore the graph of an exponential function. Vary the coefficient and base of the function and investigate the changes to the graph of …
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Study the graphs of polynomials up to the fourth degree. Vary the coefficients of the equation and investigate how the graph changes …
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Functions Involving Square Roots
Compare the graph of a function involving square roots to its equation. Vary the coefficients of the equation and investigate how the …
General Form of a Rational Function
Compare the equation of a rational function to its graph. Multiply or divide the numerator and denominator by linear factors and explore …
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Quadratics in Polynomial Form - Activity A
Compare the graph of a quadratic to its equation in polynomial form. Vary the coefficients of the equation and explore how the graph …
Quadratics in Vertex Form - Activity A
Compare the graph of a quadratic to its equation in vertex form. Vary the terms of the equation and explore how the graph changes in response.
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