Instructional Tools Bring Learning to Life

Lab Investigator:
Rocks and Minerals

Geology takes on a whole new high-tech experience with Lab Investigator: Rocks and Minerals. This tool gives students a hands-on, forensics style of learning about rocks and minerals while:

• Providing information about usage and location of given rocks and minerals.
• Enabling students to manipulate and magnify the specimens to observe structure, luster, texture, and color.
• Allowing students to view streak, fracture, hardness and more tests in order to compare the properties of various rocks and minerals.
• Enabling students to record observations and export data so that it can be submitted to their teacher.

Take a peek under the rock and experience our Lab Investigator: Rocks and Minerals for yourself, and see a video about how this tool came to life!

Lab Investigator:
Chemical Reactions

With our Lab Investigator: Chemical Reactions tool students react to physical science in a new and exciting way! This tool enables high school chemistry and physical science students to step into the virtual lab to:

• Engage with an interactive periodic table.
• Explore information about elements and compounds.
• Build and balance chemical equations.
• Unlock videos of the reactions.
• Record observations and export them to a teacher.

Watch this video to see how students use our Lab Investigator: Chemical Reactions tool. Don’t forget your safety goggles!

Activity Tracker

Running, jumping rope, playing soccer—students get moving with our Activity Tracker tool! This tool inspires students to get active and allows them to:

• Select an icon and color to personalize their Activity Tracker.
• Add their favorite physical fitness activities.
• Track the amount of time they spend on physical fitness activities.
• Set goals.
• Analyze their progress.

Lace up your sneakers and watch this video to see the Activity Tracker in action!

Connect-a-Majig^®

We’ve all done it; spent hours creating words and sentences on the refrigerator with brightly colored letter magnets. Now we’re turning your computer into the refrigerator and teaching students critical language arts skills:

• Phonics
• Phonemic Awareness (rhyming and sound play)
• Spelling
• Word Study

Warning: At Connections Academy schools learning is fun and addictive. See for yourself!

Lemonade Stand

Put your entrepreneurial spirit to the test and open you own Lemonade Stand—predict sales, set your prices and start selling, all while learning these important skills:

• Supply and Demand
• Estimating
• Forecasting

Start your Lemonade Stand today—watch out for those rainy days!

Virtual Pan Balance

How many grams is an apple? How many pounds is a bowling ball? With our interactive Virtual Pan Balance tool, students start learning metric and customary units with just a few clicks. See how quickly you can determine the weight of an apple versus a bowling ball, while mastering these skills:

• Measuring
• Comparing
• Ordering
• Converting

Go ahead, tip the scales in your favor and sample our Virtual Pan Balance learning tool now!

Virtual 2-D/3-D Shapes

Triangles, circles, rectangles and more take on a colorful dynamic that’s perfect for younger students in our Virtual 2-D/3-D Shapes tool. This interactive tool enables students to:

• Manipulate two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
• Translate two-dimensional shapes on graph paper.
• Print, cut and fold two-dimensional patterns that create three-dimensional figures.

Check out our Virtual 2-D/3-D Shapes tool—this is shaping up to be a fun lesson!

Virtual Geoboard

The traditional pegboard and rubber band geoboard gets a high-tech makeover in our Virtual Geoboard tool. With this fun tool students:

• Engage in hands-on methods of determining perimeter and area.
• Visualize division by grouping.

The fun awaits—investigate our Virtual Geoboard tool!

Virtual Spring Scale

Simulating an actual spring scale, our Virtual Spring Scale allows students to measure the force in Newtons of a set of items. They can hang objects from the spring scale and use the spring scale to drag objects across a flat surface or up a ramp at various degrees.

Spring into learning with our Virtual Spring Scale tool!