Gizmos: a wonderful asset to my lesson plans as a student teacher!

Shannon Dey, a student teacher in Monongalia County, WV, has contacted us to share some of her first experiences with Gizmos:

The ExploreLearning website and Gizmos has been a wonderful asset to my lesson plans as a student teacher! I found the Element Builder and Electron Configuration to be great additions to my lesson plans and the students enjoyed doing them - they were very engaged in their learning. I loved that I could setup different classes and have the students sign into them. Furthermore, we just had our unit test today and the students seemed to retain more information about atomic structure than any of the other topics covered - I definitely attribute this at least partly to the usefulness and effectiveness of the Gizmos. Overall, your website has been a great resource and the Gizmos are great for illustrating complex concepts . I also used one of the Density Gizmos for students who needed to make-up a density lab that we did.  The Gizmo covered the same concepts and the students were able to make up the assignment without me setting up the actual lab all over again.  Brilliant!  So, that's my review... to sum up, I loved it and definitely plan on using your website and incorporating Gizmos in my future classroom!

Thank you Shannon for your feedback, and we are delighted that Gizmos are having such a great impact on your student teaching!!