Latest News from the Pivot Interactives team
New Activity
Physics

🚨3 NEW Activities!🚨

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Shared by Peter • February 23, 2023

Not one - not two - but THREE new Physics activities as you prepare for Energy and Circuits.

⚡Evidence of Electric Current⚡

In this short activity, students explore how they can observe electric current.

🧲Current & Magnetic Fields I🧲

Students explore the current caused by a magnet.

🪫Current & Magnetic Fields II🪫

Students explore the magnetic field caused by a current in a coil of wire.

Improvement

The News Center is now live!

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Shared by Linda • February 16, 2023

We have been looking for a better way to share all of the latest updates about Pivot Interactives without filling your inbox:

📰Pivot Interactives News!📰

This newsfeed can be found right within the Chat or at our News Center and includes the latest updates about:

  1. Feature Releases and Improvements
  2. New and Improved Activities
  3. Blogs and Videos
  4. Pivot Interactives Social Updates

Updates release frequently, so we'll only add a notification if it's really important.

If you don't want to miss an update, you can see everything in our News Center or in the Chat at any time.

New feature

Introducing Text Tables

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Shared by Linda • February 16, 2023

We are excited to announce the launch of a highly requested update: Tables have been added to the text editor. 🎉

Tables can house anything you would add to a text box, including:

  • Formulas and Variables
  • Images
  • Links
  • And more!

Read the article above to learn more about this new text tool.

New Activity
Physics
Chemistry

Energy Transformation: Thermal to Kinetic

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Shared by Linda • February 13, 2023

🚨NEW ACTIVITY ALERT!🚨

Check out the latest physics and chemistry activity - Energy Transformation: Thermal to Kinetic.

Students evaluate different models to determine what factors affect the amount of kinetic energy in a Sterling engine.

BONUS! It's 100% autograded!!! 🥳

Biology
Environmental
Improvement
Middle School
AP
Update
Latest Version

⚒️Activity Rewrite COMPLETED!⚒️

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Shared by Eric • February 08, 2023

Check out the latest version of our activity on classification: Intro to Classification. This is a rewrite of the Dichotomous Key activity from last year and is a fantastic fit for your Life Science courses.

🦠Intro to Classification🦠

In this activity, students will classify unknown protists using a dichotomous key.

New Activity
Physics
Middle School

🚨New Activity Alert🚨

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Shared by Peter • February 08, 2023

Check out the latest Physics activity, perfect for Middle School Physics and Introductory High School Physics!

🎈The Balloon Pop!🎈

Students explore absorption and reflection with a fun laser and balloon experiment.

Feature
Improvement
Update
Latest Version

Weekly Release Notes - 2/7/23

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Shared by Adrian • February 07, 2023

This week's updates!

  1. Moving forward, all users will be prevented from making profile changes that are set by an SSO.
  2. We have moved the scores column next to the name in the Scores View.

Check back every Tuesday for the latest new features and changes.

Chemistry
New Activity

Using Light to Identify Elements

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Shared by Linda • February 06, 2023

🚨NEW ACTIVITY ALERT!🚨

Check out the latest chemistry activity - Using Light to Identify Elements. Students compare spectra of unknown elements with known spectra to identify gases. Perfect for all levels of chemistry students.

Update
Physics

Revised: Analyzing Collisions

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Shared by Peter • February 06, 2023

Check out our revisions to the Analyzing Collisions activity. It's now 78% Autograded! Perfect for all physics courses from intro to AP.

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TIL: Pivot's Home

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Shared by Danielle • February 06, 2023

Did you know that the Pivot Interactives lab is inside a high school?!

Read more about how Pivot partners with ISD 197.