Engage
Engage your Learners
With the purchase of Book 1, Book 2 or a year 11 workbook your students will also gain FREE access to sciPAD Online. sciPAD Online interactive lessons work alongside the topics in each sciPAD workbook, and are aligned to the New Zealand Curriculum and the new Level 1 NCEA standards. They are full of New Zealand contexts, images and videos, specially tailored to the curricular needs of the classroom.
Some key ways in which sciPAD Online supports our sciPAD Workbooks:
sciPAD Online offers on-demand access. Students can access the online lessons anytime, before or after working in their sciPAD. This flexibility allows students to review content as needed to complete sciPAD exercises.
sciPAD Online reinforces content covered in sciPAD workbooks. The online lessons can revisit and expand upon concepts after students have practiced them in the workbook. This repetition in a different medium further cements the concepts in students’ minds.
sciPAD Online engages visual and auditory learners. The multimedia nature of online lessons, with videos and animations, helps visual and auditory learners understand concepts that may be more difficult to grasp from static workbook pages.
Extend the Printed Workbook
sciPAD Online complements sciPAD workbooks, offering flexible, self-paced learning on any device, allowing students to complete key parts of the workbook and spend more time on challenging topics, catering to different learning styles.
Formative Testing
Small interactives and text questions within lessons provide instant feedback, including hints, prompts, and next steps, while also preparing students for online assessments.
Text-to-speech Technology
sciPAD Online's embedded text-to-speech technology provides auditory input, making it easier for students, particularly those with dyslexia or reading disorders, to access and process written material by reading text aloud, allowing for repetition and review to reinforce learning.
Full Teacher Control
Teachers can now manage and regulate access to specific topics, lessons, and responses, tailoring the educational experience to individual students by setting due dates and closing times.
Video
Over 500 videos embedded in lessons provide engaging and informative content using animations, simulations, diagrams, and experiments to illustrate scientific concepts, enhancing student understanding and retention by making difficult ideas easier to visualise.
Games
Our embedded games make learning fun and engaging by incorporating challenge, competition, and rewards to motivate students, while also teaching problem-solving and critical thinking through puzzles and challenges that require the application of scientific knowledge.
Simulation Activities
Each simulation activity enables students to interact with and experiment on virtual models, such as molecular structures, ecosystems, chemical reactions, and physical systems, offering life-like experiences to test hypotheses and observe changes that would be difficult, expensive, or impossible to access in real life.
Designed for Devices used in NZ Classrooms
sciPad Online has been designed to run seamlessly on any device commonly used in schools, including laptops, tablets and Chromebooks. This ensures that all students have equal access to its interactive science lessons and simulations. (sciPAD Online is not compatible with phones).