Learning Opportunity

ExploreLearning - Teaching Functions and Relations in Grades 4-6 Math Using Online Gizmos Simulations

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Facilitator: Karen Blumhagen
Date:April 09, 2025
Time:3:45 pm to 5:00 pm MTN
Cost:
No Charge
Location: Virtual
Session Code: 25-MA-349
Type:
Webinar
Focus: Mathematics and Numeracy

Target Audience

Grade 4-6 teachers

About this Learning Opportunity

Discover innovative strategies and resources to help your students master these essential concepts, and build a foundation for later math learning. Explore curriculum-aligned ExploreLearning Gizmos that suppport conceptual understanding of functions and relations and can be integrated into the Patterns unit. Elementary teachers in Alberta have access to Gizmos through a subscription provided by Alberta Education. For more information, email Alberta@explorelearning.com.

This session addresses the LQS competencies

  • 2. Modeling Commitment to Professional Learning
  • 4. Leading a Learning Community

This session addresses the TQS competencies

  • 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
  • 3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge

This learning opportunity is being subsidized through funding from Alberta Education.

About the Facilitator

Karen Blumhagen

Karen Blumhagen is an Implementation Coordinator with ExploreLearning. She has over thirty years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, learning facilitator, and administrator. Karen has observed firsthand the positive impacts of online simulations in student understanding and achievement. For fifteen years, she has used Gizmos to engage her science and math students. Karen is in... Read more »