Find science teaching ideas, education research, announcements, & more, from teachers and the team at Pivot Interactives.
Educators named Pivot Interactives Best of STEM in three categories!
Learn how AP Biology teacher Dr. Cristi Sims uses Pivot Interactives to enhance her classes.
Join Pivot Interactives co-founder Peter Bohacek as he walks through his methods for avoiding unproductive shortcuts in his classroom.
Learn how Pivot Interactives can help close achievement gaps in your school with our first-in-class science education solution.
Determining an activity's time commitment can feel like a complicated calculus question. But in today's blog, we'll make it as easy as 1, 2, 3!
Join your innovative science colleagues and the Pivot Interactives team for a one-day professional learning event to transform your science programs!
Hints can be a simple yet strong way to guide students to confidence & mastery. Learn 3 effective types of hints and how to use them in Pivot.
Running customer success is a lot like running a classroom. Read how Linda's teaching experience informs her role in customer success.
How can I allow students another chance at the assessment without doubling my workload?
How to do a Friction Coefficient Lab with students' own videos in Pivot Interactives.
Read about how Lynn, an AP Chemistry teacher, uses Pivot Interactives to do MORE Chemistry in LESS time.
Use Pivot Interactives as alternative assessments for a great way to assess open-ended problem-solving skills.
Peter shares how he packs many skills and concepts into a dense, active, but coherent activity in a single 48- minute class period
Check out a few ideas on how to introduce new topics to students, like Ionic and Covalent Bonding, Newton’s Third Law, and Cellular Respiration.
Read a blog post from the archives - the very beginning of Pivot Interactives to learn how it all began.
Learn Linda's 3 Tricks for picking a good starting activity.
2021-2022 was FULL of platform updates, new features, and new activities to make Pivot Interactives even more effective and easy to use!
Here's an overview of resources available to you to help streamline your Back to School preparations and get ready to use Pivot Interactives.
These 6 strategies took my class from an equation-based course to a course designed around understanding relationships & concepts.
Gail Hamel-Smith now provides her students with more relevant, phenomena-based activities and gives quick, personalized feedback.
Pivot Interactives is a research-based science supplement for phenomena-based active learning that fulfills the intentions & goals of ESSER.
Come see us at our booth or workshops at NSTA Chicago 2022
Students have unique and valuable perspectives. The Pivot Interactives activities would not be what they are today without the help of students.
Bingol now uses Pivot Interactives and PhET integration to guide students in the simulations, save time, and maximizing the value of the simulations.
A Pivot Interactives premium license is ideal for schools & districts and provides the resources, a plan and the support to achieve your science goals
Science teachers of all experience levels at Henrico County School District are engaging students with phenomena & science practices through Pivot.
A few Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) awardees work at Pivot Interactives, including the CEO!
Join us (or find the recordings) of FREE, interactive webinars covering science topics like Equity in Science, the 5Es, 3-D Learning & More
The Pivot Interactives Iris temperature tool enables Marta Stoeckel to do standards-aligned three-dimensional instruction for thermal energy.
Introducing a new set of tools, Iris™, so all teachers & students to access the power of color- and light-based measurements.
Review like a pro with Pivot Interactives using these five strategies, great for any time of the year.
Reviewing is essential. In this blog, we'll discuss what is a review, how to plan one, and what to include to be on your A game!
Give your AP® Biology, AP® Chemistry, AP® Physics 1, AP® Physics 2, and AP® Physics C students unique practice AP® FRQs.
Pivot Interactives is a Science Solution Finalist in the 2022 EdTech Cool Tool Awards, the world's largest recognition program for edtech.
We are committed to interoperability, so we continued our IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI)® Certification!
"Reduce and modify" is the most common accommodation in high school classrooms - and it's VERY vague. Learn reduction strategies to use in your class.
Biology Teacher David Madden describes his series of lessons & activities for teaching Natural Selection
The most common technique to increase equity is to give extended time. In this post, We'll learn how to work with extended time in Pivot Interactives.
As teachers ourselves, we understand the challenges of getting funding. Here are some tips, ideas, & success stories on how to get funding for Pivot!
Lab notebooks are heavy, time-consuming, and messy to grade. Enter: the online lab notebook. Learn how to use Pivot to create an online lab notebook.
Biology Teacher David Madden shares how he introduces microscopy to his Biology Students.
NSTA partnered with STEM Pulse to evaluate over 60 different STEM programs. Pivot Interactives didn’t just win; we SWEPT the board.
Chemistry teacher Scott Milam shares how he reviews for assisments in his Modeling Chemistry class
Looking for an online teacher community? Check out Linda's recommendations for science teacher Facebook groups in this week's Teacher Tips!
Learn how to use Pivot Interactives as part of a holistic unit plan in this week's Teacher Tips.
Linda teaches you about alternative assessments and how to structure then in this week's Teacher Tips!
When should you do online labs? When should you do in-person labs? Learn Linda's guidelines for success in this week's Teacher Tips.
Linda walks you through scaffolding techniques for graphing, helping you meet your students wherever they are.
Physics Teacher Marta Stoeckel describes how she introduces her students to Newton's 1st law using bowling balls and a simulation in Pivot Interactive
Chemistry Teacher Scott Milam explains how he helps is students to develop rich understanding of measurement that goes beyond memorized sig fig rules.
From Gene to Protein -- Check out the new animated interactive that will change the way you teach molecular genetics.
Physics Marta Stoeckel, Marta explains how she introduces Pivot Interactives to her students and supports them in learning a new technology tool.
Chemistry Teacher Scott Milam describes how he starts his Modeling Chemistry Class, thinking about models and what it means to learn.
We have the Co-Lab feature which allows group work. But, how do you *do* group work? How can you get them talking? Learn more in this teacher tip!
Chemistry teacher Scott Milam describes how he starts his IB chemistry class with retrieval practice and stoichiometry.
Physics teacher and lead content writer Marta Stoeckel describes how she starts the year with her physics classes.
Meet Adrian Rocke, one of our Lead Developers at Pivot Interactives and learn the story behind the stopwatch and the Pivot Player.
The Pivot Interactives team continued making content during summer 2020. But the team's lab spaces and working conditions were different than usual.
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