Homework Help

Use Visual Thinking and Learning to Help Your Child Excel in School

Ask parents of school-age children and chances are, they’ll tell you that they feel as if they have “homework” too. Kids count on parents for help with their research reports, special projects and daily assignments throughout the school year. In this section, you’ll find visual learning examples, templates, activities and databases for typical school assignments. We have provided the following types of resources to help you support your children as they master key concepts and excel on important class assignments.

Examples

See examples of how your children can use Inspiration^®, Kidspiration^® and Inspiredata^® to learn key skills and concepts that are foundational to their overall success in school and beyond.

Templates, activities and databases

Use templates, activities and databases to help your children jumpstart some common school assignments. These resources will give them a framework for gathering information, organizing ideas, and representing and modeling concepts. To use the downloadable resources in this section, you will need a copy of the respective program. Get a 30-day free trial here.

Videos

Inspiration Software, Inc. has produced several video and multimedia presentations that will introduce you to how students use our products to learn and apply important concepts and skills. See more in the Videos section.

Inspiration (Grades 6-12)

Kidspiration (Grades K-5)

InspireData (Grades 4-12)

Inspiration

Language Arts
Glass Menagerie example

Use Inspiration to develop and organize ideas to begin the writing process. Visual diagrams reinforce learning and help students recall information and demonstrate understanding. These diagrams become useful study guides and function as a starting point for reports.

View the Glass Menagerie example in Inspiration's Presentation Manager

View the Women's Roles example in Inspiration's Presentation Manager

Archetypal themes template
Use this template to investigate archetypal themes.

Science
Newton's Laws of Motion example
Use Inspiration’s Diagram View to state an experiment’s goals or hypotheses, steps and observations. When students organize this information visually, they can better analyze their results, make logical conclusions and then expand information in Outline View.

Lab Report template
Use this template to help structure your lab report.

Social Studies
Revolution comparison example
Use Inspiration to create visual comparisons of historical events, people and cultures.

Legacy of a civilization template
Use this template to explore the legacy of a past civilization in the world today.

Kidspiration

Reading & Writing
Beginning letters activity
Match pictures with their beginning letters in this activity.

Growing vocabulary in writing video

Math
Place value example
Help your children master place value, the essential math concept, by using base ten blocks to represent multi-digit numbers in Kidspiration’s Math View.

Pattern trains activity
Extend and create patterns using shapes.

Equivalent fractions activity
Use fraction tiles to model and explore equivalent fractions.

Visualizing Borrowing in Subtraction video

Social Studies
Where I Live example
When children create a visual diagram with pictures, links and words to show and organize their ideas and the relationships among them, they express their very personal creativity about where they live. Older children can continue expanding their ideas in Kidspiration’s Writing View.

Community comparison activity
Use pictures and words to compare urban and rural areas.

Science
Science experiment example
Use Kidspiration’s Picture View to state an experiment’s goals or hypotheses, steps and observations. When students organize this information visually, they can better analyze their results, make logical conclusions and then expand information in Writing View.

Balanced meal activity
Use this activity to plan healthy meals.

InspireData

Science
Average monthly rainfall time series axis plot example
Young scientists analyze data visually with InspireData, learning to recognize patterns and trends.

Social Studies
Youth Populations Around the Worlds example
Using InspireData, students can compare data points and represent data in multiple ways. They can import tables and graphs into other projects to illustrate key points.

Native Americans database
This database presents historical characteristics of select Native American groups and tribes. Possible investigations include:

• Are there correlations between region and the other fields? If so, what factors might explain the correlations?
• How are the tribes most similar? How are they most different?
• What other fields could be added, researched and analyzed?

Presidential election video

Math
Body proportions database
Use this database to examine and analyze a sample set of body proporation data easily in Table and Plot View.

Countries of the World database
This example database includes sample plots to demonstrate how information contained in the Countries of the World database can be analyzed. Possible investigations include:

• Which regions of the world are experiencing the highest rate of population increase? What are the likely cultural, social and economic factors influencing these trends?
• Are there regions of the world with a higher percentage of the population in urban or rural areas?