Izzy Gizmo Activities for PreK-3

Come and invent with Izzy Gizmo! Engage students with over a dozen activities that develop vocabulary, identify story elements, and work through engineering and design. These activities support English Language Arts and STEM skills, so students can:

• participate in a soundscape Scavenger Hunt
• trace vocabulary words.
• illustrate tools. 
• match rhyming words.
• write or illustrate the story events.
• illustrate Izzy’s attempts.
• write about the story.
• compare and contrast Izzy and yourself.
• define and illustrate vocabulary words.
• plan a new gizmo! 
• research an inventor.
• play engineering games.
• make a three-person machine.
• play guess the word.
• reflect on and respond to discussion questions and writing prompts.

You can use activities to differentiate instruction, give students a choice, or focus on a specific skill.