Engage every learner.
With the purchase of Book 1, Book 2 or a senior workbook, your students gain FREE access to sciPAD Online — interactive lessons that work alongside the topics in each sciPAD workbook, aligned to the Australian Curriculum. They're full of Australia contexts, images and videos, specially tailored to the curricular needs of the classroom.
How it works
Some key ways sciPAD Online supports our sciPAD Workbooks.
On-demand access
Students can access the online lessons anytime, before or after working in their sciPAD. The flexibility lets students review content as needed to complete sciPAD exercises.
Reinforces the workbook
The online lessons revisit and expand on concepts after students have practised them in the workbook. This repetition in a different medium further cements the concepts.
Multi-modal learning
The multimedia nature of online lessons — videos and animations — helps visual and auditory learners understand concepts that may be more difficult to grasp from static workbook pages.
Extending the printed workbook.
sciPAD Online complements sciPAD workbooks, offering flexible, self-paced learning on any device. Students can complete key parts of the workbook and spend more time on challenging topics — catering to different learning styles.
What's inside
Everything you need to bring science to life.
Formative testing
Small interactives and text questions within lessons provide instant feedback — including hints, prompts and next steps — while preparing students for online assessments.
Text-to-speech
Embedded text-to-speech provides auditory input, making it easier for students — particularly those with dyslexia or reading disorders — to access and process written material, with repetition and review to reinforce learning.
Full teacher control
Teachers manage and regulate access to specific topics, lessons and responses — tailoring the experience to individual students by setting due dates and closing times.
500+ videos
Over 500 videos embedded in lessons use animations, simulations, diagrams and experiments to illustrate scientific concepts — making difficult ideas easier to visualise and helping retention.
Games
Embedded games make learning fun by incorporating challenge, competition and rewards — and teach problem-solving and critical thinking through puzzles that require students to apply scientific knowledge.
Simulation activities
Each simulation lets students interact with virtual models — molecular structures, ecosystems, chemical reactions, physical systems — to test hypotheses and observe changes that would be difficult, expensive or impossible in real life.
Designed for the devices used in Australia classrooms.
sciPAD Online runs seamlessly on any device commonly used in schools — laptops, tablets and Chromebooks — so every student has equal access to its interactive science lessons and simulations. (Phones not supported.)
See it for yourself.
Take a guided look at sciPAD Online — no account required.
Preview sciPAD Online