Visual Tools
Built with the Task Design CommunityVisual Keywords
Helps build vocab
About Visual Keywords
Extract and visualise key terms with definitions and visual representations. Perfect for vocabulary building and concept reinforcement.
The Learning Science
Visual keywords combine verbal and visual memory traces, strengthening neural connections. Research in dual coding theory shows this multimodal approach significantly improves recall and comprehension.
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Hexagons
Helps connect knowledge
About Hexagons
Create interactive hexagon grids to visualize connections between concepts. Perfect for exploring relationships between ideas and building conceptual understanding.
The Learning Science
Hexagon mapping encourages non-linear thinking and helps students identify meaningful connections between concepts. The physical arrangement of ideas promotes active learning and deeper cognitive processing.
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Three Heads
Helps deep thinking
About Three Heads
Create exercises where students evaluate three different viewpoints or explanations. Perfect for addressing misconceptions, encouraging reasoning, and promoting critical thinking discussions.
The Learning Science
Three-heads exercises promote critical thinking by presenting multiple perspectives, helping students identify misconceptions and justify their reasoning. Research shows that comparing contrasting viewpoints enhances conceptual understanding and argumentation skills.
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Retrieval Task Creator
Helps strengthen memory
About Retrieval Task Creator
Create retrieval practice tasks with icons and keywords to help students strengthen their memory. Perfect for spaced repetition, revision, and knowledge consolidation.
The Learning Science
Retrieval practice is one of the most effective learning strategies. Research shows that actively recalling information strengthens memory pathways and improves long-term retention more effectively than passive re-reading.
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Odd One Out
Helps with understanding concepts
About Odd One Out
Create 2x2 image grids where students identify the odd one out and explain their reasoning. Supports AI generation or teacher-provided examples.
The Learning Science
Odd-one-out tasks build categorization skills and explanatory reasoning by requiring learners to justify similarities and differences between items.
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Worksheet Creator
Generate worksheets
About Worksheet Creator
Create beautiful printable worksheets with visual content and visual aids. Perfect for homework, in-class activities, and assessment preparation with multiple component types.
The Learning Science
Multi-component worksheets engage different learning modalities simultaneously, improving comprehension and retention. Research shows that combining visual elements with text-based activities enhances cognitive processing and knowledge transfer.
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Icon Storyboard
Chunk knowledge
About Icon Storyboard
Create storyboards with symbolic icons representing key concepts. Perfect for visual communication using symbols rather than realistic images.
The Learning Science
Icon storyboards use symbolic representation to build conceptual understanding. Symbols reduce cognitive load while maintaining meaning, making complex ideas more accessible to learners.
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Frayer Model
Helps build vocab
About Frayer Model
Create Frayer Model diagrams with definitions, characteristics, examples, and non-examples to build deeper vocabulary understanding.
The Learning Science
The Frayer Model enhances vocabulary acquisition through a structured approach that activates prior knowledge, encourages critical thinking, and creates multiple memory pathways by connecting terms to definitions, characteristics, and real-world examples.
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Slides Creator
Generate slide decks
About Slides Creator
Create comprehensive presentation slides with icons, keywords, quizzes, and teacher notes. Perfect for lessons, lectures, and educational presentations.
The Learning Science
Well-designed slides improve learning outcomes by organizing information, reducing cognitive load, and engaging multiple learning modalities. Teacher scripts ensure pedagogical effectiveness and content accuracy.
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Storyboard
Chunk knowledge
About Storyboard
Generate a visual narrative with images and text for storytelling, processes, or event sequences.
The Learning Science
Storyboards leverage the power of narrative and visual processing to enhance learning. The sequential format helps students organize temporal information and understand cause-effect relationships.
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Storymap
Chunk knowledge
About Storymap
Create interactive visual storyboards with connected images and text to illustrate narrative sequences. Perfect for explaining processes, telling stories, or visualizing historical events.
The Learning Science
Interactive storymaps combine visual storytelling with spatial navigation, enhancing comprehension through multiple cognitive pathways. The interactive format promotes active engagement and deeper understanding of narrative structures.
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Timeline Creator
Helps develop chronology
About Timeline Creator
Create interactive timelines from any chronological content. Perfect for history lessons, project planning, scientific processes, and understanding sequences of events.
The Learning Science
Timeline visualizations help learners understand temporal relationships and sequential processes. Research shows that chronological organization improves comprehension of cause-and-effect relationships and helps students build mental models of complex sequences.
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Visual Word Building
Helps build vocabulary
About Visual Word Building
Create visual word building activities that help students understand word structure through morpheme analysis. Split words into meaningful parts and build engaging learning materials.
The Learning Science
Morpheme-based instruction significantly improves vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension. Visual word building activities engage multiple learning pathways, helping students understand word structure and meaning relationships.
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Video Generator
ProChunk knowledge
About Video Generator
Creative adaptive and accessible educational videos tailored to your needs. Perfect for engaging presentations, explanations, and visual storytelling.
The Learning Science
Video content engages multiple learning modalities simultaneously, enhancing retention and understanding. Research shows that customized educational videos can increase student engagement by up to 60% compared to standard materials.
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Concrete Examples
Helps build conceptual understanding
About Concrete Examples
Create printable worksheets using the NPPPN sequence to teach categorical concepts. Help students distinguish between examples and non-examples with research-backed design principles.
The Learning Science
Concrete examples instruction using the NPPPN sequence (Negative-Positive-Positive-Positive-Negative) is proven to improve categorical concept learning. The setup, difference, and sameness principles reduce cognitive load and clarify concept boundaries.
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Map Generator
ExperimentalHelps build spatial understanding
About Map Generator
Create interactive maps with custom themes and data visualizations. Perfect for geography, history, or any subject requiring spatial understanding.
The Learning Science
Interactive maps engage spatial intelligence and visual processing to improve geographical understanding. Research shows that interactive elements enhance retention by creating a multi-sensory learning experience.
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Graphic Organiser
Helps connect knowledge
About Graphic Organiser
Find ways to visualize your content. Creates custom layouts, colors, and connections based on your topic. Perfect for when you want maximum creative freedom.
The Learning Science
See Richard Mayers work on the power of visualisations, such as diagramming bike pumps.
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Curriculum Graph
ExperimentalHelps connect the curriculum
About Curriculum Graph
Interactive knowledge graph showing curriculum connections and prerequisites. Click on any topic to see what students need to know first and how concepts connect across subjects.
The Learning Science
Knowledge graphs help teachers understand prerequisite relationships and cognitive load theory. Research shows that identifying and teaching prerequisites improves learning outcomes by building on existing knowledge structures.
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Organize your knowledge
Helps connect knowledge
About Organize your knowledge
Enter what you want to teach and get smart recommendations for the best visual format. Chooses from mind maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, and more.
The Learning Science
Matching content structure to visual representation reduces cognitive load and improves comprehension. Research shows that appropriate visual formats enhance learning by aligning with how information is naturally organized.
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