Engage Your Students and Enhance Your Classroom

We walk around everyday viewing the world around us in 3D. On the other hand, many of us spend a great deal of time looking at digital content on computers and other devices in 2D. Why not make our digital experience more life-like and view this content the same way we view our daily surroundings? With zSpace, all that is possible! The zSpace hardware provides an immersive virtual reality environment, which focuses on new ways to view, learn, and interact with educational content.

zSpace provides access to various apps that are centered around a comprehensive STEM learning environment. Students are encouraged to explore scientific principles using the software available on their zSpace system. Let’s take a closer look at three zSpace applications and their use for multi-level instructional practice.

The zSpace monitor provides a 3D viewing experience to engage students and enhance learning opportunities.

CyberScience 3D

zSpace partners with CyberScience to create engaging learning experiences using various scientific models for interaction. Students can access models to study anatomy, botany, Earth science, chemistry, and other scientific principles. With the use of the zSpace stylus, students can manipulate these objects on the zSpace platform to get a 360 degree view, peel the model apart, and view labels, providing an exceptional, in-depth learning experience.

Students and teachers can also create presentations in the CyberScience application by enhancing the models with directions, notes, labels, and additional information. The zSpace system is a perfect way to make these models available to students, when they cannot normally be accessed in the classroom.

To see zSpace in action, click on the above image.

Newton’s Park

Newton’s Park is an application created by zSpace to aid with physics instruction. Experiments focused around force and motion can be built, demonstrated, and data can be collected based on interactions viewed through the zSpace. Teacher or student directed simulations can be built to help students gain a conceptual understanding of Newton’s Laws of Motion throughout a variety of software settings.

Within the applications that zSpace has created, teachers have the opportunity to build activities and push them out to student stations through the system’s network. Students can make observations, answer questions, and digitally report their answers directly to the teacher. Think about the ability to start digital lab reports with your students! Below, see a demonstration activity available from zSpace.

To view Inertia in Action (Newton's Park), click on the image above. — To view Inertia in Action (Newton’s Park), click on the image above.

Franklin’s Lab

Do you want to teach your students about the power of electricity (get it? haha!)?Franklin’s Lab makes this easy without having to set up hazardous materials in your classroom. In the Franklin’s Lab application, students can set up circuits, visualize reactions, and interact with various materials like batteries, wires, conductors, and resistors. Because this is an application created by zSpace, educators also have access to pre-created lessons within the software, and can also create their own activities with built-in assessments. See a demonstration activity below where students learn about conductivity, and remember, this all happens in 3D using zSpace!