Weekend giveaway: $135 package from Uzinggo math and science
This giveaway has ended – thanks for your interest!
Welcome to this weekend’s giveaway, sponsored by Uzinggo:
“Uzinggo is an online science and math program for middle and high schoolers. It’s like having access to a private tutor, but at a fraction of the cost.
Uzinggo tries to make learning as real as possible with real-world simulations – the more real a lesson is, the more students learn.
Uzinggo is unique in that they have their own built-in gaming system so students receive that additional encouragement to keep learning.
Through earning Zings (points) and badges as they complete more and more ZingPaths (pre-defined lesson plans), students are able to purchase virtual goods and even enter drawings for gift cards. Uzinggo is the gamification of education.”
They have over 1200 lesson activities that fall into three category types:
• Lesson Tutorials: 10-30 min Interactive lessons containing multiple sections, associated worksheets and assessments that let students participate in virtual experiments, scientific inquiry exercise and problem-based learning
• Animations: Standards-based, 1-3 minute videos used to introduce and reinforce a specific concept
• 3D Interactive Models: Vivid, dynamic models designed to explore, visualize and develop a deeper understanding of concepts.
They have a 3D model of the human body where students can pick apart the human body part by part (by organs, the different body systems and structures and all the way down to the bone level).
The lessons are structured to:
- Provide interactive, dynamic environments in which students can discover scientific processes, facts, properties, and concepts by performing a series of guided tasks and examining the results. Each task has its own specific feedback structure, and students can practice each task multiple times using different examples.
- Allow students to make mistakes, understand the reasons for mistakes, and receive relevant, timely feedback.
- Teach scientific concepts in context, with strong real-life and historical connections.
- Help students extend and deepen scientific inquiry skills with engaging, context-rich, step-by-step interactions that favor critical thinking and problem solving over rote memorization of facts.
- Help students to formulate, test and answer scientific hypotheses. Students begin by making intuitive, contextual and testable predictions or hypotheses. Students then use active inquiry to test their predictions before reviewing and revising these predictions based on the results of their inquiries.
- Support teachers/parents with complementary materials that provide background information on the content, additional real-world examples, suggestions for overcoming common student misconceptions, detailed solutions to student worksheets, and lesson-planning tips for introducing, reviewing and extending the concepts.
One Simple Homeschool reader will win a one year subscription to Uzinggo math and science! (value $135)
How to Win
To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post answering this question: How old are your children, and how do you use technology in your home to enhance your kids’ learning?
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For an extra entry, “Like” Uzinggo and Simple Homeschool on Facebook. Then leave another comment on this blog post, letting me know you’ve done so.
Special Offer:
Uzinggo is offering 15% off all orders through October 31st. Just use the coupon code “SimpleHS15” at checkout.
This giveaway has ended – thanks for your interest!
We use math games online, and occasionally netflix videos.
I liked simple homeschool and uzinggo on facebook.
Our children are 24, 22, and 11. (The older two were homeschooled, earned their degrees and are enjoying working in their chosen fields.) We use keyboarding, math and geography games on the computer to help enhance learning. We also have Discovery Education Streaming that we use some for history and science. And Khan Academy is always there when we run into trouble! Thanks for the chance.
My sons are 12 and 9, and we’ve just begun using technology in a bigger way for homeschooling, especially for math.
I like Simple Homeschool and Uzinggo on Facebook.
Our sons ages 11 and 12 at times we use Khan academy and often view video for science on line on PBS/Nova
Our kiddos are 4,6, & 8. My oldest loves all things science. I’ve been trying to find some more ways to integrate technology into our day to make it more fun and engaging yet still educational.
We use online math games and reading for my three kids 12,9, and 8 years old.
my twins are 8 and we do very little online, though they want to do more. It would be a good addition to homeschool.
My kids are 14 and 11. This would be perfect for us. We love technology and use many (mostly free) online resources.
I have liked Uzinggo on facebook.
I have also like Simple Homeschool. Thank you for the chance.
Our kids are 14, 12, 9, 8, 6, and 4. We use our Mac for online classes, keyboarding, YouTube discoveries, word processing, Kahn Academy, and photos/tours of the places we’re studying in history.
Thanks for the chance!
This would be such an answer to prayer. My son is in 11th grade and is 16. He is very technology minded and we have struggled to find a math curriculum that challenges him but doesn’t lose him. He is also doing Chemistry this year and the science looks awesome. I alo likes Simple Homeschool and Uzinggo on FB. I can’t wait , I hope I win.
I have 3 sons, ages 10, 6, and 2. We watch their math videos on the ipad, play learning games, and my oldest is learning typing on the computer. I tried to avoid technology in our first year of homeschooling thinking it was “bad” and that I needed to be more old-fashioned and book based. But I listened to Dr. Kathy Koch at the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention and after talking to her one-on-one realize that to completely eliminate technology is to set my kids up for a disadvantage. She also reminded me that if I have a techno-savvy kid, to allow him to prosper in that world. I try to incorporate more technology this year and want to do even more next year!
I just “liked” both your FB page and Uzinggo!
We use some online games and math and science apps.
I liked both on Facebook!
My girl Josie is five. We are having lots of fun learning together. Just yesterday we were finding shark teeth in the stream near the house. This site looks amazing. I would love a chance at it for me to polish up with and share with her as she likes. For sure lots to be learned. Thank you April
My children are 13 and 16. We use technology in our homeschool for researching topics to go along with our science studies. Uzinggo looks absolutely amazing and would enhance our learning for sure. Thank you for the opportunity.
My kids are 5 and 8. We recently switched to a math program on the computer, and it has made our school day so much smoother! I’d love to incorporate more technology!
We have three kids at home aged 15, 12, and 9. My youngest uses several iPad apps for reading help and my older two do Rosetta Stone languages.
I like you on fb!
My kids are 4 & 6 and we use technology a lot with science, history, reading, and even French 🙂
Sarah M
I liked Uzinggo on facebook