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Lab Investigation
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Ready-made lessons
Pushes and Pulls
Push a box with a bigger or smaller force and watch how quickly it gets going.
PhysicsElementary
Solids, Liquids and Gases
Warm up a box of particles and watch a solid loosen into a liquid, then a gas.
ChemistryElementary
Life Cycles
Hop a frog around its life cycle, from egg to tadpole to grown-up frog and back.
BiologyElementary
Halves and Quarters
Cut a chocolate bar into equal pieces and colour them in to name halves and quarters.
MathElementary
Floating and Sinking
Drop five objects into a tank and work out why big things can float while tiny ones sink.
PhysicsElementary
Light and Shadow
Slide a torch closer to a toy and watch its shadow grow across the wall.
PhysicsElementary
Mixing and Dissolving
Stir sugar into water until it vanishes, then work out where it actually went.
ChemistryElementary
Plants Need Light
Turn the light up and down and watch a plant thrive or droop.
BiologyElementary
Simple Pendulums
Swing a pendulum, change its length and gravity, and discover why the bob's mass makes no difference.
PhysicsHigh school
Ohm's Law
Watch charge carriers speed up and slow down as you change voltage and resistance, then read 1/R off the graph.
PhysicsHigh school
Forces and Motion
Balance the arrows on a free-body diagram, then read acceleration and distance off a velocity-time graph.
PhysicsHigh school
Loop the Loop
Launch a car into a vertical loop and find the slowest speed that still keeps it on the rails.
PhysicsHigh school
Ionic and Covalent Bonding
Watch an electron transfer or be shared, then see why that choice sets melting points hundreds of degrees apart.
ChemistryHigh school
Rates of Reaction
Heat and crowd a box of particles to see which collisions actually react, then read the rate off the curve.
ChemistryHigh school
Balancing Equations
Slide the coefficients until every atom tallies, then weigh both sides to see mass conserved.
ChemistryHigh school
Cell Division
Step a cell through all six stages of mitosis, then compare the chromosome maths with meiosis.
BiologyHigh school
Photosynthesis
Feed a leaf light and carbon dioxide, then find the point where more light stops helping.
BiologyHigh school
Inheritance
Cross two parents in a Punnett square, then trace how a recessive trait hides and reappears.
BiologyHigh school
Straight-Line Graphs
Tilt and shift y = mx + c, then drag two points to see gradient as rise over run.
MathHigh school
Pythagoras' Theorem
See a² + b² = c² as three real squares, then work through finding any missing side.
MathHigh school
Trigonometry Basics
Walk a point round the unit circle to see what sine and cosine really are, then unroll them into waves.
MathHigh school
VSEPR and Molecular Shape
Orbit real 3D geometries to see why lone pairs squeeze water's bond angle below tetrahedral.
ChemistryAP / college intro
Damped Oscillation
Tune the damping ratio from ringing to critical to sluggish, and read the three regimes off the trace.
PhysicsAP / college intro
Enzyme Kinetics
Saturate an enzyme, read Km off the half-Vmax point, and see what each kind of inhibitor changes.
BiologyAP / college intro
Rates of Change
Shrink a secant into a tangent, then watch the derivative become a function in its own right.
MathAP / college intro
Vectors in Three Dimensions
Rotate two vectors in 3D to see where their cross product points, and why it vanishes when they align.
MathAP / college intro