Gizmos are interactive mathematics and science simulations for grades 3-12. There are over 400 Gizmos available that are aligned to standards to help bring powerful learning experiences to the classroom.

ExploreLearning: Gizmos

Gizmos, from ExploreLearning, is one of the largest libraries of math and science simulations designed for grades 3-12 instruction. They focus on conceptual learning in those content areas. Students utilize immersive, online labs and inquiry-based activities to build their learning in math and science.

Updated: CP 8/26

Approved Users

3-12 Teachers & Students for Math and Science

How to Access Gizmos

Teachers

In Google Chrome, access Classlink: https://launchpad.classlink.com/cmcss.
Select the ExploreLearning Gizmos tile.

ExploreLearning button from Classlink page

First Time Login - If you have NEVER logged into ExploreLearning's Gizmos site, you will need to complete account creation by clicking "Login With My Existing Account" and walking through the prompts/text fields. Use this because your account was created by the district for you, but ExploreLearning requires a few more profile details to be entered.

Login with my Existing Account button image

Your Classes are loaded from PowerSchool, but your students need assignments to have something to do.

Students

In Google Chrome, access Classlink: https://launchpad.classlink.com/cmcsd.
Select the ExploreLearning Gizmos tile.

ExploreLearning button from Student Classlink page

Editing Your Settings

Account settings button. It looks like a gear wheel with 8 spokes.

Public Profile Info

Your Picture

Display Name

School Name

Profile Message

What I Teach

Once you have logged in, you can change many of the account settings.

Click on your name in the corner of the screen.
Click the "Account Settings" button.
Click on the section to change...
- Account Info
- Public Profile Info
- What I Teach and more.

Adding Gizmos to Your Classes

This image shows 3 buttons - the "Gizmos by Academic Standard" button with the image of a globe, the "Gizmos by Grade & Topic" button shaped like an apple, and the "Gizmos by Textbook" button shaped like a book.

This is the "Add to Class" button for assigning Gizmos to classes of students.

Click Find Gizmos at the top of the webpage to search for a Gizmos.
Choose from Academic Standard, Grade & Topic, Textbook, or search by Gizmos name or topic.
Click Add to Class and select the class(es) to which to add the Gizmo.

Content Available in Gizmos

This is a screenshot of a typical Gizmos Activity.

Simulations

Explore math and science concepts, analyze data, and dig deeper with inquiry-based simulations and virtual labs.

This is a screnshot of sample multiple choice questions for each Gizmo.

Assessment Questions

Each simulation comes with 5 multiple choice questions to assign to students following their work.

This is a screenshot of the additional lesson resources including buttons for downloadable support materials, including a teacher guide, the student exploration activity, its answer sheet, and a vocabulary sheet for the Gizmo. There is also the image of a drop-down menu showing options for downloading the materials as PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or in other languages.

Additional Lesson Materials

Each simulation also comes with additional resources that can be printed, downloaded as MS Word or PDFs, or shared as Google Docs with students.

Teacher Guide
Student Exploration Sheet - Use as is, or modify the Word or Google Docs versions. Each has several pages including...

This is a screenshot of an image from the presentation showing samples of different page types found in a student exploration activity set.

Exploration Sheet Answer Key
Vocabulary Sheet
Some have even more Supplementary Materials created by Gizmos.

This is a screenshot of the "Supplementary Materials" section with other documents, such as extended reading articles, related to the content of the Gizmo on that page.

Organizing Your Gizmos

This is a screenshot of the "Manage Class" drop-down menu.

Adding a Heading:

- Click Manage Class and select Add Heading in the dropdown menu.

Reordering Gizmos:

- Click the double arrows icon and drag to reposition.

This is a screenshot of the delete Gizmos button. It looks like an 'X'.

Deleting a Gizmos:

- Click on the gray x icon.

Hiding/Unhiding a Gizmos from Student View:

- Click on the eye icon.

Checking Assessment Results

Each Gizmo provides five assessment questions that help test for student understanding. After submitting answers to all Assessment Questions, students are shown their personal results followed by a report explaining the answers.

To see your students’ Assessment Results, click My Classes on the main navigation bar to go to the Class page with the Gizmo whose assessment you want to review. Gizmos with completed assessments are listed in the Recent Class Results section and are also indicated by a green highlighted Graph icon to the right of the Launch button. A number indicates the total completed results. Click the icon to view the results.

This is a screenshot of the Recent class results button. It shows one listed activity done eight days ago with a blue-green text that says "Results" where you can click to view the results of the activity.

Getting More Help

Educator Hub

Get help from ExploreLearning with text and video directions for using Gizmos organized into the following groups of help topics.

Getting Set Up
Moving Forward
Going Deeper
At Home
Just for Fun

Try out the "Gizmos Adventurer Bootcamp" where yo can learn, share, and energize before another day with Gizmos.

This is a screenshot of the Gizmos Educator Resource Hub

Click on the image above to go directly to the Gizmos Educator Resource Hub.

PD Videos

On-demand training video clips for all aspects of ExploreLearning Gizmos broken down by ...

Teacher How-Tos
Admin How-Tos
Teaching with Gizmos
Deeper Understanding with Gizmos
STEM Cases
and more.

Screenshot of Gizmos PD Videos in the Help section

Click on the image above to go directly to the Gizmos On-Demand video library.

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