Whois & Analysis for explorelearning.com

ExploreLearning is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based company which operates a large library of interactive online simulations for mathematics and science education in grades 3–12.

These simulations are called Gizmos.

The company's website describes their library of over 450 Gizmos as the world's largest collection of such materials.

A gadget is a small tool such as a machine that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty.

Gadgets are sometimes referred to as gizmos.

Gizmos in particular are a bit different from gadgets.

Gadgets in particular are small tools powered by electronic principles (a circuit board).

Educational technology is defined by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology as "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources".

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering, involves the discovery and design of new materials, with an emphasis on solids.

The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy.

Materials science still incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering.

As such, the field was long considered by academic institutions as a sub-field of these related fields.

Beginning in the 1940s, materials science began to be more widely recognized as a specific and distinct field of science and engineering, and major technical universities around the world created dedicated schools of the study.