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Acceleration Challenge
A randomised challenge covering acceleration, deceleration, initial velocity, final velocity, elapsed time and the difference between speed and acceleration.
Acceleration Explorer
Students investigate how changes in velocity over time produce acceleration, deceleration and constant-velocity motion.
Acceleration Investigation
A guided ramp investigation in which students compare repeated trials and calculate acceleration for different slopes.
Acids, Bases, pH & Neutralisation Investigation
A guided Year 9 investigation where students read the pH scale, use indicators, connect acids and bases to H⁺ and OH⁻ particles, and model neutralisation as salt and…
Adaptation and Selection Pressure Explorer
Use the Education Universe 3D Earth to explore real-world examples of natural selection and investigate how environmental pressures change inherited trait frequencies…
Aggregate Expenditure & Multiplier Challenge
A randomised challenge covering aggregate expenditure, MPC/MPS, the spending multiplier, AE=Y diagrams, stimulus calculations and AD component data interpretation.
Anaemia Investigation Pathway
Freely explore the anaemia investigation decision tree — MCV, reticulocytes, iron studies, B12 and folate, haemolysis markers and blood film — selecting any test in any…
Anaemia Investigation Pathway (Challenge)
A blind self-assessment of the anaemia investigation algorithm. The mechanism and diagnosis stay hidden until submission, results give no live correctness signal, and…
Anaemia Investigation Pathway (Guided)
A scaffolded walkthrough of the anaemia investigation algorithm: classify by MCV, assess marrow response, then unlock the targeted follow-up test for the case, with the…
Ancient Egypt Evidence Explorer
Explore Ancient Egypt through real archaeological and historical evidence. Investigate settlements and sites along the Nile, compare historical chronology with dating…
Ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta
Compare Athens and Sparta through geography, key groups, beliefs and practices, contacts and conflicts, significant individuals and primary sources. Students weigh the…
Area of Quadrilaterals Challenge
A randomised 10-question challenge where students calculate area for triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums, rhombuses, kites and composite shapes, with new numbers each…
Area of Quadrilaterals Guided
A guided Year 8 investigation where students derive area formulas by rearranging parallelograms, duplicating trapeziums, using diagonals for rhombuses and kites, and…
Area Under a Velocity–Time Graph Explorer
Students calculate distance and displacement from rectangular, triangular, trapezoidal and signed areas beneath velocity–time graphs.
Area Units Visualiser
Predict how many small squares fit in a larger one and fill it row by row, practise conversions on a km² → mm² ladder, and compare real objects with 1 m², 1 ha and 1 km².
Atomic Theory & Radioactivity
Investigate how atomic models changed in response to experimental evidence, compare isotopes, model alpha, beta and gamma decay, and explore radioactive half-life using…
Average Speed Explorer
An open average-speed explorer in which students adjust distance and travel time, run an animated car and observe the relationship between distance, time and average…
Average Speed Investigation
A guided investigation in which students measure a moving car using manual stopwatch trials, calculate mean time and average speed, identify anomalous results and…
Aviation Emissions Explorer
Explore a global snapshot of aircraft activity and investigate how aviation contributes to atmospheric emissions and local air pollution. Compare modelled aviation…
Balance of Payments Classifier Challenge
A randomised transaction-classification challenge covering current account components, financial account flows, direct and portfolio investment, income flows, services,…
Binary Data Lab
Investigate how text and images are represented as binary data. Flip bits, edit pixel values, compare resolution and colour depth, test lossless compression and optimise…
Biodiversity Data Investigation
Investigate whether a species has declined, expanded or remained relatively stable using real distribution records, authoritative population evidence and assessed range…
Biodiversity Species Explorer
Explore real Australian species occurrence data to investigate geographic distribution, changes through time, environmental associations and sampling limitations.…
Black Death Evidence Explorer
Trace the Black Death across Europe using georeferenced historical outbreak records from 1347-1353. Investigate spatial and temporal patterns, test the relationship…
Can You Trust This Graph?
Can one dataset tell two different stories? Analyse authentic World Bank time series, manipulate chart scales and time windows, investigate misleading averages and…
Canon Wave Explorer
Built around the Thousand-Hand Guanyin: a line of dancers raising their arms in canon. A guided sequence moves from the audience view (unison shows one pair of arms;…
Cell Viewer
Explore labelled, rotatable 3D cell models. Click any organelle to highlight it and read what it does. Currently covers the animal cell, with plant, bacteria, and fungal…
Cellular Respiration Explorer
Explore how glucose and oxygen are converted into ATP inside cells using interactive Cell, Mitochondrion and Energy Production views. Investigate the roles of…
Chemical Reactions & Conservation Challenge
A randomised Year 9 challenge where students use particle models and equations to identify reactants and products, compare atom counts, and justify why atoms are…
Chemical Reactions & Conservation Explorer
Explore chemical reactions by comparing reactants and products, tracking atom counts, and seeing that atoms are rearranged rather than created or destroyed.
Chemical Reactions & Conservation Investigation
A guided Year 9 investigation where students identify reactants and products, count atoms before and after a reaction, and explain conservation of atoms using simple…
Chemical Response Challenge
A real-world chemistry capstone where students diagnose a contaminated water sample, choose a treatment reaction, optimise reaction rate and submit a scientific…
Circle Area Investigation
Investigate where the formula A = πr² comes from by progressively slicing a circle into sectors and rearranging them into a rectangle-like shape. Students work through a…
Circle Circumference & Pi Guided
A guided investigation where students connect radius, diameter and circumference, measure how many diameters fit around a circle, discover π as the…
Circuit Builder
Build and test series and parallel circuits using cells, switches, lamps, resistors, ammeters and wires. Explore complete circuits, current flow, voltage, resistance and…
Circuit Builder Guided Investigation
Complete a guided circuit investigation by building working circuits, testing open switches, comparing one and two cells, reversing cells, measuring current with an…
Coagulation Screen Interpreter
Freely explore the coagulation investigation decision tree — platelet count from the FBC and an ordered PT/APTT screen branch into mixing studies, factor assays,…
Collision Momentum: Real-World Collisions
Explore momentum and collisions through Space, NASCAR and Baseball contexts, then investigate mass, velocity, elasticity, impulse, momentum vectors and kinetic energy in…
Congruence Investigation
Investigate congruence through translations, rotations and reflections. Students work through a structured sequence identifying corresponding sides and angles,…
Conservation of Energy Challenge
A randomised challenge involving Sankey diagrams, efficiency calculations and interpretation of energy transfers in real-world devices.
Conservation of Energy Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into energy transfers, efficiency and Sankey diagrams, showing that energy is transformed rather than lost.
Continental Drift Explorer
Travel back 250 million years to Pangaea using real plate reconstructions. See Wegener's fossil and ice-age evidence line up across Gondwana, and follow Australia's…
Country, Land & Native Title Explorer
Explore native title claims, determinations, outcomes and Indigenous Land Use Agreements across Australia, and investigate how legal recognition differs from traditional…
Critical Mass Simulator
Explore how network-effect businesses move from slow early adoption to self-sustaining growth. Students adjust initial users, virality, churn, marketing and funding…
Current Account Calculator Challenge
A randomised calculation challenge where students calculate balance on goods and services, current account balances, capital and financial account offsets, and interpret…
Cybersecurity Attack & Defence Lab
Investigate common cyber threats and defensive controls using a visible network. Compare plaintext and encrypted traffic, identify phishing clues, test authentication…
Decomposition Reactions Challenge
A randomised challenge where students identify decomposition reactions, choose products, interpret evidence, recognise non-decomposition examples and apply atom…
Decomposition Reactions Explorer
Explore decomposition reactions as the pattern where one reactant breaks into two or more products, connecting word equations, particle models, energy input and…
Decomposition Reactions Investigation
A guided Year 10 investigation where students recognise the decomposition pattern, write word equations, connect energy input to bond breaking, use evidence and check…
Deep Time Australia Explorer
Explore more than 65,000 years of Australian history through archaeological evidence, changing landscapes, First Nations technologies and knowledge systems, and the…
Defibrillator & Cardioversion Trainer
Take the role of the clinician running a cardiac arrest or unstable arrhythmia. Recognize the rhythm on the monitor, decide whether it calls for unsynchronized…
Design the Festival Site
A story-driven capstone challenge where students design a festival site by solving connected problems involving percentages, linear equations, circumference, circle…
Displacement Reactions Challenge
A randomised challenge where students use the reactivity series to predict displacement products, recognise no-reaction cases, interpret evidence and apply conservation…
Displacement Reactions Explorer
Explore displacement reactions using the pattern A + BC → AC + B, before-and-after particle models, reactivity decisions, no-reaction cases and atom conservation.
Displacement Reactions Investigation
A guided investigation where students spot the displacement pattern, compare reactivity, predict products, model the particle swap and check conservation of atoms.
Distributive Property Explorer
Use area models and algebra tiles to explore the distributive property, expand brackets, identify common misconceptions and solve randomised algebra challenges.
DNA Structure Challenge
Use an interactive DNA model to solve challenges involving base pairing, strand direction, genes and sequence composition.
Dry Bean Machine Learning Challenge
Design an automated bean sorter using real UCI Dry Bean measurements. Choose a limited set of computer-vision features, stay within a sensor budget, test unseen beans…
Electoral Systems Simulator
Apply four electoral systems to the same fictional electorate and compare how identical first-preference votes can produce different district winners, seat totals and…
Electrical Energy Systems Explorer
Explore how electrical devices transfer energy into light, heat, movement, sound and stored chemical energy. Classify useful and other outputs, then complete…
Electromagnetic Induction Challenge
A randomised challenge covering Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law: calculating induced voltage, magnet speed, magnet strength and coil turns, plus reasoning about why a…
Electromagnetic Induction Explorer
An explorer for induced voltage, coils, magnets, and changing magnetic fields — move a magnet through a coil and watch the galvanometer, field lines and electron flow…
Electromagnetic Induction Guided Investigation
A guided investigation that builds up electromagnetic induction step by step: no motion means no voltage, motion induces voltage, and reversing direction reverses the…
Elements, Compounds & Mixtures Challenge
A challenge covering classification of elements, compounds and mixtures, chemical bonding, fixed vs variable ratio, and reasoning about real examples like salt water,…
Elements, Compounds & Mixtures Explorer
An explorer showing elements, compounds and mixtures at the particle level — bonded vs unbonded atoms, and fixed vs variable ratio — using real substances like water,…
Elements, Compounds & Mixtures Guided Investigation
A guided investigation building up elements, compounds and mixtures step by step: chemical bonding, why compounds have new properties, fixed vs variable ratio, and how…
Energy System Design Lab
Use real regional electricity, weather and generation data to design a lower-emissions energy system. Students interpret evidence such as wind-speed distributions and…
Enigma — Can You Crack the Code?
Break four intercepted messages: a shift cipher (brute force), a substitution cipher (frequency analysis with real English data), a keyword cipher (repeats and common…
Exchange Rates Challenge
A randomised challenge covering AUD depreciation/appreciation, demand and supply for currency, exchange-rate calculations, graph interpretation and sector impacts.
Exponential & Logarithmic Active Lab
An active lab applying exponential models and logarithms to current earthquake, space-weather, population, emissions and interest-rate data.
Food Web Explorer
Explore real, location-specific food webs, build food chains, predict how a change ripples through a web, and test the model against observations from a real event (the…
Foreign Investment Challenge
A randomised challenge covering foreign debt, foreign equity, net foreign liabilities, debt servicing, financial-account inflows and the relationship between foreign…
Free Trade & Protection Challenge
A randomised Year 11–12 economics challenge covering forms of protection, tariffs, subsidies, quotas, arguments for and against trade liberalisation, and the influence…
Full Blood Count Interpreter
Interpret full blood count patterns by comparing haemoglobin, red cell indices, white cell differential and platelet results across common foundational haematology…
Game Studio: Data Decisions
Use real game-industry data to make and defend evidence-based decisions. Students choose a genre to develop, evaluate whether discounting creates sustained player…
Gas Laws Challenge
A randomised challenge involving Boyle's Law and Charles's Law calculations, graph interpretation and reasoning about how particle motion and piston movement affect…
Gas Laws Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into Boyle's Law and Charles's Law, showing how particle motion and piston movement explain the relationships between pressure, volume and…
Genetics Cross Lab — Fruit Fly
Design two parent fruit flies across four real, documented Drosophila traits, breed them, and analyse the resulting phenotype ratios with a built-in chi-square…
Genetics Cross Lab — Fruit Fly
Design two parent fruit flies across four real, documented Drosophila traits, breed them, and analyse the resulting phenotype ratios with a built-in chi-square…
Geomorphic Hazards Explorer
Why do two earthquakes of similar size have radically different human impacts? Compare paired earthquakes, tsunamis and eruptions on a 3D globe, reveal population,…
Global Food Security Explorer
Explore observed global undernourishment, cereal yield and arable land, compare countries, investigate differences between food production and food access, and test a…
Global Trade & Interconnection Explorer
Investigate how countries are connected through global trade using real UN Comtrade, World Bank and shipping data. Explore imports and exports, major trading partners…
Government & Democracy Explorer
Compare how Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and India turn votes into representation, government and laws. Explore institutions, form parliamentary…
Grid & Renewables Data Investigation Lab
Investigate real electricity-grid data to explore renewable generation, demand, emissions, price and energy mix.
Gulf of Tonkin: Evidence & Escalation
Investigate the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incidents using historical timelines, declassified intelligence, primary sources and congressional voting data. Compare contemporary…
Haematology Case Study
Work a haematology case end to end: decide what to order from the presentation, triage the full blood count, work a targeted investigation pathway, commit to a diagnosis…
Haematology Morphology Challenge
A randomised challenge covering red cell morphology recognition: finding specific cell types within a field, identifying a field's overall pattern, and reasoning about…
Haematology Morphology Explorer
A procedural blood film explorer covering red cell morphology recognition — microcytes, macrocytes, hypochromia, spherocytes, target cells, schistocytes, sickle cells…
Haematopoiesis Lineage Explorer
A structural reference tool linking the haematopoietic stem cell hierarchy to the parameters reported on a full blood count. Select a lineage to see which FBC values it…
HMAS Sydney and the Kormoran, 1941
A case study of the loss of HMAS Sydney off Western Australia in 1941. Fly from the world to the wreck site, replay the battle and the survivors' drift on an animated…
Hominin Skull Comparison Explorer
Compare authentic 3D hominin skull models side by side or as transparent overlays. Examine braincase shape, brow ridges, facial projection, jaws and chewing adaptations,…
Honeycomb Geometry Challenge
Investigate why bees build hexagonal honeycombs by comparing area, perimeter and tessellation. Explore regular shapes, test efficiency, and complete a wax-budget design…
Hooke's Law: Guided Investigation
A step-by-step version of the classic spring-extension practical. Students calculate extensions from ruler readings, plot a graph, identify the limit of proportionality…
Hooke's Law: Spring Explorer
Drag a load slider to stretch a spring, a copper wire or a rubber band, and watch the force–extension graph plot live — including the limit of proportionality, the…
Human Evolution Explorer
Explore human evolution as a branching process rather than a simple linear sequence. Investigate major hominin groups, compare species that coexisted, and use an…
Human Innovation Timeline
An evidence-based timeline where students investigate the development of bipedalism, tools, fire, migration, hunting, shelter, social care, symbolic culture, seafaring…
Human Wellbeing Explorer
Investigate global and Australian patterns of human wellbeing using real UNDP, World Bank and ABS data. Compare places, analyse relationships and inequality, and explain…
Industrial Revolution Explorer
Explore the causes and impacts of the Industrial Revolution through historical data, changing industrial geography, coalfields, cities, railways, factory production and…
Inheritance Explorer
Investigate how alleles separate during meiosis, combine during fertilisation and produce predictable genotype and phenotype ratios using Punnett squares and simulated…
Internet Network Explorer
Explore how data travels through the global Internet. Send data between locations, inspect the route through interconnected networks, break connections and observe how…
Inverse Trigonometry Active Lab
An active lab using geological drillhole data to reconstruct underground drilling angles with inverse trigonometry, then inspect the selected drillhole within its local…
Investment Committee Simulator
Take the role of a CEO or investment committee member and decide how to allocate capital across competing investment opportunities. Evaluate industry attractiveness,…
Kidney Viewer — Urinary System
Explore a labelled 3D model of the human kidney. Students can click named sub-models such as the renal cortex, renal medulla, renal pelvis, ureter, renal artery, renal…
Kokoda Campaign 3D Explorer
Explore the Kokoda campaign across a data-derived 3D model of the Owen Stanley Range. Follow the Japanese advance and Australian counter-offensive, investigate…
Like Terms Sorter
A guided algebra activity where students identify variables, constants, terms and coefficients, sort like and unlike terms, and simplify expressions by collecting like…
Linear Equation Balance Explorer
A guided balance-scale investigation for solving one-step and two-step linear equations using inverse operations, with symbolic and graphical representations.
Machine Learning Explorer
Train and test a transparent machine-learning classifier using real Palmer Penguins measurements. Choose features, change k, inspect nearest neighbours and investigate…
Magnetic Field Challenge
A randomised challenge where students identify magnetic field direction, compare field strength, interpret compass arrows and apply the right-hand rule.
Magnetic Field Explorer
Explore magnetic field direction and strength around bar magnets and current-carrying wires using compass arrows whose direction and length show the local field.
Magnetic Field Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into magnetic fields, guiding students to observe field direction, field strength, compass behaviour and right-hand-rule patterns.
Medieval Europe Explorer
Explore medieval European society, the manor economy, towns and trade using real ca. 1300 settlement data, religious and material evidence, and change-and-continuity…
Mexico City Subsidence Investigation
Use real INEGI Sentinel-1 subsidence measurements and CDMX risk-atlas layers to investigate where Mexico City is sinking fastest, compare locations, test explanations…
Mission: Mars Base
A story-driven capstone challenge where students stabilise a Mars research base by solving connected problems involving scientific notation, rates, percentages, linear…
Mitosis & Meiosis 2.5D Explorer
Compare mitosis and meiosis side by side to see how chromosomes separate, chromosome number changes and genetic variation is produced.
Momentum & Collisions Challenge
A randomised challenge where students solve momentum and collision problems involving different masses and speeds, predict collision outcomes and apply conservation of…
Momentum & Collisions Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into how mass and velocity affect momentum and collisions. Students predict outcomes, test ideas with light and heavy objects, and connect…
Monarch Migration & Ecosystems Explorer
Use real monarch observations and long-term monitoring data to investigate seasonal migration, population change, and relationships between biotic and abiotic factors.
Mutation & Protein Outcome Explorer
Compare original and mutated DNA to see how substitutions, insertions and deletions alter codons, amino acids and protein outcomes.
Natural Selection Explorer
Explore how inherited variation, environmental selection, survival and reproduction change phenotype and allele frequencies across generations.
Network Effects Investigation
A guided investigation into one-sided and two-sided network effects, platform balance, price effects versus network effects, negative network effects, and curation.
Newton's First Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer where students investigate inertia, balanced and unbalanced forces, friction, initial velocity and constant motion.
Newton's Laws Challenge
A mixed canvas-based challenge covering law classification, balanced forces, F = ma calculations and third-law force-pair identification.
Newton's Second Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer where students vary force and mass and observe acceleration, motion, force vectors, worked calculations and a velocity-time graph.
Newton's Third Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer showing equal and opposite force pairs across pushes, collisions, swimming and rocket motion.
Ocean Data Investigation Lab
Use real ocean-buoy data to investigate sampling, distributions, probability and relationships between variables.
Optical Lightbench
A 2D/3D optical lightbench for mirrors, lenses, refraction, total internal reflection, and real vs virtual images.
Packet & Protocol Inspector
Build a message into a TCP/UDP segment, IP packet and Ethernet frame, then follow it through switches and routers to distinguish application data, ports, IP addresses,…
Palaeontology: Windows into Ancient Life
Explore famous fossil sites — from Lagerstätten to bonebeds and trackways — and investigate how preservation shapes what we can learn about life through deep time.
Park Site Designer
Place and resize rectangles and right-angled triangles on a scaled site to meet minimum areas and a fence budget, then calculate and check every area and perimeter.
Parking Policy Lab
Investigate real San Francisco parking meter locations and real hourly occupancy data. Compare neighbourhoods, identify limitations in small samples and incomplete…
Perimeter Area Investigation
An investigation where students compare perimeter and area across rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums, rhombuses, kites, circles and composite shapes,…
Periodic Table & Reactivity Challenge
A randomised challenge testing periodic table position, chemical families, valence electrons, noble-gas stability and reactivity trend predictions.
Periodic Table & Reactivity Explorer
Explore how atomic structure, electron shells, groups and periods explain patterns in the periodic table and help predict the properties and reactivity of metals,…
Periodic Table & Reactivity Investigation
A guided investigation where students connect groups, periods and valence electrons to chemical families, noble-gas stability and reactivity trends in alkali metals and…
Photosynthesis Explorer
Explore how light, carbon dioxide, water and temperature affect photosynthesis, and trace the inputs and outputs through a leaf and chloroplast.
Photosynthesis Guided Investigation
Complete a structured investigation using leaf and chloroplast views to identify photosynthesis inputs and outputs, locate key processes, and test light, carbon dioxide,…
Physical vs Chemical Change Challenge
A randomised Year 8 challenge where students classify changes, choose evidence, and correct common misconceptions about physical and chemical change.
Physical vs Chemical Change Explorer
Explore physical and chemical changes by comparing everyday examples such as melting, boiling, dissolving, rusting, burning and vinegar reacting with bicarbonate,…
Physical vs Chemical Change Investigation
A guided Year 8 investigation where students classify changes, identify evidence such as gas, colour change, heat, light and precipitate formation, and explain whether a…
Pompeii: The Last 24 Hours
Follow the destruction of Pompeii through an interactive eruption timeline, archaeological evidence, decision points and a final evidence-based reconstruction.
Population, Migration & Urbanisation Explorer
Investigate how population, migration and urbanisation reshape places. Explore global urbanisation, analyse the components of population change across Australian cities,…
Porter's Five Forces Simulator
Investigate how Porter's Five Forces interact to influence company profitability and industry attractiveness. Adjust competitive pressures, explore interdependencies…
Price Elasticity Challenge
A 10-question randomised elasticity challenge with multiple-choice, calculation and graph-reading questions. Answers are revealed only at the end.
Price Elasticity Guided Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into price elasticity of demand, showing how price, quantity and total revenue change across elastic, inelastic and unit-elastic regions.
Projectile Motion Simulator
Launch a projectile at any speed, angle and height, then watch how gravity shapes its path. Compare range and maximum height as the launch conditions change, and see…
Projectile Motion: Guided Calculations
Work step-by-step through the maths behind a randomly generated launch. Calculate horizontal and vertical velocity components, time of flight, maximum height, range and…
Projectile Motion: Guided Journey
A guided, step-by-step walkthrough of projectile motion set against a real launch — golf, NFL punting, cricket, or a fireworks shell — exploring the launch, rise, apex…
Projectile Targeting Challenge
Calculate the launch angle, speed, or landing point needed to hit a target — then fire to find out if you got it right. Five escalating rounds cover solving for angle,…
Radioactivity & Stable Atoms Investigation
A guided investigation where students connect protons, neutrons and isotopes to the neutron-to-proton balance, predicting decay type and interpreting half-life.
Ratio Challenge
A simple randomised ratio challenge where students practise simplifying ratios, finding equivalent ratios and solving missing-value ratio questions using visual ratio…
Ratios, Rates & Percentages Active Lab
An active lab applying ratios, rates, percentages and percentage change to current Tour de France and weather data.
Ratios, Rates & Percentages Explorer
A guided Year 8 investigation covering ratio simplification, scaling, unit rates, percentages, discounts and percentage change in real-world contexts.
Reaction Rates Challenge
A challenge where students predict faster reaction conditions and justify their answers using collision frequency, successful collisions and activation energy.
Reaction Rates Explorer
Explore how temperature, concentration, surface area and catalysts affect reaction rate using collision frequency, successful collisions and activation-energy models.
Reaction Rates Investigation
A guided investigation where students run controlled comparisons and explain how temperature, concentration, surface area and catalysts affect reaction rate.
Read the Economy
A real-data macroeconomic investigation where students interpret economic indicators, diagnose current economic conditions, make policy judgements and predict likely…
Resistor Network Challenge
Solve randomised resistor network problems by designing circuits that achieve target resistances and currents using series, parallel and mixed arrangements.
Resistor Network Explorer
Explore series, parallel and mixed resistor networks by adjusting resistor values and observing how equivalent resistance and current change.
Resistor Network Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into equivalent resistance in series, parallel and mixed resistor networks, guiding students to discover how circuit arrangement affects…
Ripple Tank Explorer
Explore straight and circular water waves in a ripple tank. Adjust frequency, amplitude, water depth and gap width, track a floating cork, use a stroboscope and observe…
Roman Empire Expansion Explorer
Explore how Roman territorial control changed from the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire using historical province and regional boundaries. Move through time,…
Satellite & Space Debris Data Explorer
Investigate real Earth-orbit data for active and inactive satellites, rocket bodies and space debris. Explore major debris events and key spacecraft, then use real…
Scientific Consensus Explorer
Investigate eight major scientific evidence stories. Make judgements using only the evidence available at each point in history, then reveal new observations,…
Scientific Numeracy Lab
Practise scientific numeracy with continuously randomised questions covering SI units, metric conversions, concentrations and molar calculations. Includes adjustable…
Sea Turtle Migration & Survival
Investigate real satellite-tracking data from green sea turtles to explore migration, habitat use and marine conservation. Follow individual turtles on an interactive…
Separating Mixtures Challenge
A Year 8 challenge where students choose suitable separation methods, identify the physical property being used, select apparatus and correct common misconceptions about…
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Try the historic seven bridges puzzle, discover Euler's graph rule, redesign the network and explain why crossing every bridge exactly once is impossible.
Solar System Explorer
A canvas-based Solar System explorer with animated orbits, selectable planets, simplified scale, planetary classifications and key school-level facts.
Solution Concentration Explorer
Explore how solute amount and solution volume affect concentration. Investigate dilution and evaporation, calculate molar concentration, and compare solutions with…
Sound Wave Challenge
A randomised challenge covering the properties of sound waves, including frequency, amplitude, wavelength, pitch, loudness and the behaviour of sound in different media.
Sound Wave Explorer
Explore sound as a longitudinal wave by manipulating frequency, amplitude and medium. Visualise particle motion, wave representations and how sound properties affect…
Sound Wave Investigation
A step-by-step investigation into sound as a longitudinal wave. Students identify compressions and rarefactions, explore the effects of changing frequency and amplitude,…
Speed, Velocity & Displacement Challenge
A randomised challenge covering distance, displacement, average speed, average velocity, direction and return journeys.
Speed, Velocity & Displacement Explorer
Students compare distance with displacement and speed with velocity across direct, return and multi-stage journeys.
Spring & Elastic Materials Challenge
A randomised challenge covering Hooke's law calculations — extension, force and spring constant — plus questions on permanent deformation once a material is stretched…
States of Matter Challenge
A randomised Year 8 challenge where students identify particle diagrams, predict the effect of heating and cooling, distinguish melting from boiling, and correct common…
States of Matter Investigation
A guided Year 8 investigation into solids, liquids and gases using particle arrangement, particle motion and energy. Students compare states, observe heating and phase…
Stromatolites: Evidence of Early Life
Explore living and fossil stromatolite locations, compare the evidence for early life, and investigate how biosignatures inform the search for life beyond Earth.
Supply & Demand Challenge
A 10-question randomised supply and demand challenge with multiple-choice and graph-analysis questions. Answers are revealed only at the end.
Supply & Demand Challenge
A challenge-style supply and demand assessment with randomised multiple-choice and graph-interpretation questions covering shifts versus movement along a curve,…
Swimming Pool Volume Investigation
Investigate how to determine the volume of a swimming pool using a rotatable 3D model. Students identify the key measurements required, determine an appropriate method…
Synthesis Reactions Challenge
A randomised challenge where students identify synthesis reactions, choose products, distinguish synthesis from decomposition and displacement, interpret evidence and…
Synthesis Reactions Explorer
Explore synthesis reactions using before-and-after particle models, Pearson-style reaction patterns, word equations, balanced equations and atom conservation. Students…
Synthesis Reactions Investigation
A guided investigation where students recognise the synthesis pattern, identify reactants and products, compare particle models, use evidence and check conservation of…
Tacoma Narrows — Why Did the Bridge Collapse?
Investigate the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse through historical evidence, a controllable qualitative aeroelastic model and engineering reasoning.
Tariff & Protection Simulator
Explore how tariffs affect domestic prices, imports, consumer and producer surplus, government revenue and deadweight loss using an interactive demand and supply model.
TCP / UDP Network Lab
Experiment with TCP and UDP under changing packet loss, latency and jitter. Observe retransmission and on-time delivery, compare trials, and choose an appropriate…
Terminal Velocity & Air Resistance Explorer
A falling skydiver accelerates under gravity while air resistance grows with speed. Watch weight and drag balance at terminal velocity, then open the parachute to see…
The 1854 Cholera Outbreak: Solve the Mystery
Investigate the 1854 Soho cholera outbreak through John Snow’s historic death-location map, water pump positions and daily mortality data. Analyse spatial patterns, test…
The Coastline Paradox — How Long Is Australia's Coastline?
Why do official sources disagree about the length of Australia's coastline? Students walk rulers of different lengths around the real mainland coast, measure maps at…
The Great Smog of London — What Made the Air Deadly?
Investigate the Great Smog of London using authentic daily smoke, sulphur dioxide and mortality data. Explore temperature inversions through a labelled model, interpret…
The Long Transition: 60 Years of Electricity
Use 60 years of real annual data to investigate how the UK, US, Australia and other countries' electricity mix has changed over time, and whether emissions have…
The Mathematics of Disease Spread
Investigate historical COVID-19 case reports using daily graphs, moving averages, percentage change and doubling times. Build a separate exponential growth model, test…
The South Sea Bubble Game
Trade real 1720 South Sea Company, Bank of England and East India Company share prices day by day as news unfolds, with optional borrowing and margin calls. Compare your…
Titanic: Who Survived?
Use the official count of everyone aboard the Titanic to work with percentages, two-way tables, Venn and tree diagrams and conditional probability, and test claims about…
Train Network Data Investigation Lab
Use real train-network data to design an open statistical investigation. Students choose variables and filters, analyse bivariate relationships, fit and test a linear…
Train Network Mathematics
Explore an animated Chicago train network and extract Year 10 mathematics from real-world movement and network data. Investigate distance-time graphs, rates of change,…
Train Network Statistics Workbench
Use real train-network data to learn descriptive statistics, distributions, comparisons, bivariate relationships and linear modelling. The animated train network remains…
Uniform Acceleration Equations Challenge
A guided calculation challenge in which students identify known values, select an equation, rearrange it and solve uniformly accelerated motion problems.
Value Creation & Capture Explorer
Investigate how firms create value for customers and capture value as profit. Explore the relationships between willingness to pay, price, cost, consumer surplus and…
Vector or Scalar?
Students classify fourteen everyday quantities — force, velocity, mass, temperature, and more — as vectors or scalars, with immediate feedback and a short explanation…
Vehicle Safety & Newton's Laws Challenge
Become a vehicle safety engineer and use Newton's Laws, momentum and stopping distance calculations to design safer cars. Investigate collisions, evaluate safety…
Velocity–Time Graph Explorer
Students connect animated motion with velocity–time graphs and investigate constant velocity, acceleration, deceleration and reversal of direction.
Velocity–Time Graph Explorer: Guided Journey
A guided, step-by-step walkthrough of velocity–time graphs set against a real current event (motorsport, athletics, cycling or a rocket launch). Students work through…
Venn Diagrams & Two-Way Tables Investigation
A guided investigation connecting Venn diagrams, two-way tables, probability language, complementary events, union and intersection using classroom survey data.
Water Security Explorer
Explore global water stress using real Aqueduct data and investigate why water scarcity differs between places. Compare baseline and future water-stress scenarios,…
Weather & Climate Explorer
Explore 20 years of real temperature and rainfall data across Australia, the United States and Europe. Compare places, investigate seasonal patterns and examine change…
Weight Across Worlds: Gravity Explorer
Set an object's mass, then compare its weight on Earth, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter using W = m × g. Watch a jump animation scale with each world's gravity, compare all…
What Force Is That?
Twelve everyday scenes — a tug pulling a tanker, a compass near a magnet, a parachutist descending — where students identify which type of force is acting, with…
Willingness to Pay Explorer
Explore how customers value products differently, how willingness to pay creates demand, and how firms can increase customer value. Investigate pricing, demand curves,…
World War I Explorer
Explore World War I through a shared historical core with configurable national perspective, curriculum and local place-context layers.
World War I: Australia Explorer
Investigate the causes of World War I and Australian enlistment, compare Gallipoli, the Western Front and Middle East campaigns, analyse the Australian home front and…
World War II Explorer
Explore the causes and changing geography of World War II, investigate Australian service and the home front, study the Holocaust through evidence and chronology, and…