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…
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Biology
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.…
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 cellular respiration and how cells release usable energy from nutrients. Students examine major inputs, outputs and stages of respiration through an interactive…
DNA Structure Challenge
Use an interactive DNA model to solve challenges involving base pairing, strand direction, genes and sequence composition.
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…
Heart & Circulatory System
Students explore an animated section through the heart, selecting each chamber, valve and vessel and watching the valves open and close through the cardiac cycle. They…
Homeostasis & Blood Glucose
Students disturb the body with meals, exercise, insulin injections and changes in air temperature, humidity and clothing, then watch the regulated variable change on a…
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,…
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…
Inheritance Explorer
Investigate how alleles separate during meiosis, combine during fertilisation and produce predictable genotype and phenotype ratios using Punnett squares and simulated…
Kidney Viewer — Urinary System
Students explore a labelled 3D model of the human kidney, selecting structures such as the renal cortex, renal medulla, renal pelvis, ureter, renal artery and vein,…
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.
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.
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.
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,…
Respiratory System & Gas Exchange
Students watch the diaphragm, ribs and lung pressure change through each breath and follow air from the nose to the alveoli. Zooming into an alveolus shows oxygen and…
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…
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.
Chemistry
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…
Atomic Structure Simulator
Explore three-dimensional representations of atoms and the periodic table. Students select elements and inspect their protons, neutrons, electrons, shell arrangements…
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 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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
Solution Concentration Explorer
Explore how solute amount and solution volume affect concentration. Investigate dilution and evaporation, calculate molar concentration, and compare solutions with…
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…
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…
Civics & Citizenship
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…
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…
Digital Technologies
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Earth & Space Sciences
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…
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…
Economics & Business
Develop an Economy
Students guide a simulated country through a ten-year development programme, allocating investment and evaluating trade-offs between competing economic and social…
Read the Economy
A real-data macroeconomic investigation where students interpret economic indicators, diagnose current economic conditions, make policy judgements and predict likely…
General Science
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,…
Geography
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
History
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…
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…
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…
Human Innovation Timeline
An evidence-based timeline where students investigate the development of bipedalism, tools, fire, migration, hunting, shelter, social care, symbolic culture, seafaring…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
Mathematics
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…
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…
Game Studio: Data Decisions
Use real Steam game data to advise a fictional game studio. Students compare genres, investigate discounts and changes in players, and evaluate claims about critic…
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…
Ocean Data Investigation Lab
Use real ocean-buoy data to investigate sampling, distributions, probability and relationships between variables.
Parking Policy Lab
Investigate historical San Francisco SFpark sensor data from May 2011 and May 2013. Students compare hourly occupancy by street block, calculate the share meeting the…
Scientific Numeracy Lab
Practise scientific numeracy with continuously randomised questions covering SI units, metric conversions, concentrations and molar calculations. Includes adjustable…
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.
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…
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…
Physics
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Force Challenge
Apply force and motion concepts in challenge questions or scenarios, practising how to interpret net force and its effects. The full interactive is available to licensed…
Gas Laws Challenge
Test understanding of pressure, volume and temperature relationships using gas-law problems and feedback. The full interactive is available to licensed Education…
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…
Grid & Renewables Data Investigation Lab
Investigate real electricity-grid data to explore renewable generation, demand, emissions, price and energy mix.
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.
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…
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 Third Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer showing equal and opposite force pairs across pushes, collisions, swimming and rocket motion.
Optical Lightbench
A 2D/3D optical lightbench for mirrors, lenses, refraction, total internal reflection, and real vs virtual images.
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,…
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…
Sound Waves & Room Acoustics Lab
Explore how sound behaves in different rooms and how surface properties affect reflection, absorption and the listening environment. Students compare arrangements to…
Sound Waves + Oscilloscope Explorer
Explore sound and its graphical representations with an oscilloscope-style display. Students relate changes in waveform shape and timing to the properties of sound. The…
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
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.
Wave Ray Duality
Explore single-slit diffraction and the transition from a wave-based description to a geometric-ray approximation. Students adjust wavelength, slit width and distances…
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…