Boost core scientific skills development with digital resources for foundation science

Enhance teaching and learning experiences across your curriculum with interactive simulations and advanced digital worksheets covering foundational science topics.

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LabSims and Smart Worksheets offer an active learning experience, giving students the tools they need to take ownership of their learning. Autograding and personalised feedback lessen marking loads, freeing you up to focus on targeted student support. 

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Quantitative skills

Help students build a strong foundation of numerical and quantitative skills required to succeed in STEM.

Key Topics and Skills

Beer Lambert equation
Concentration and dilutions
Data visualisation
Error calculations
Moles and molarity
Significant figures and scientific notation
Statistical principles
Statistical tests
Units and unit conversions

Core lab skills

Help students develop the core lab skills needed to succeed in a foundation course and beyond.

Key Topics and Skills

Dressing for the lab
Handling glassware
Lab equipment
Micro-pipetting
Safety and risk assessment (COSHH)
Using a top pan & analytical balance

Bioscience essentials

Resources covering core practical and analytical skills and techniques for bioscience.

Key Topics and Skills

Balancing chemical equations
Ecology
Microbiology
Microscopy
Molecular biology
Physiology

Chemistry essentials

Resources covering core practical and analytical skills and techniques for chemistry.

Key Topics and skills

Analytical chemistry
Balancing chemical equations
Chemical nomenclature
Equilibria, kinetics and thermodynamics
Synthesis and purification techniques
Titration
pH and buffers

Real impact

Key benefits

Flexible, skills-targeted resources that enhance teaching and learning experiences in foundation science

Prepare students for practical labs

Interactive simulations as pre-lab activities allow students to familiarise themselves with techniques, increasing preparedness for the lab and meaning you can make better use of limited lab time.

See where student are struggling

Use insights into how students are performing to enhance their learning experiences, by providing better support and implementing enhanced teaching interventions.

Reduce staff workload

Automated marking and personalised feedback for each student frees up time so that you can focus on your teaching and responsibilities in a more manageable way.

Boost key skills for employment

Valuable practice opportunities enhance students' development of the skills and competencies they need to succeed during education and future employment.

Published education research

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Smart Worksheets

Paired Online Laboratory Assessments: Formative Engagement and Summative Attainment

Published in:
Journal of Chemical Education, Vol 101, Issue 8, 2024
Authors:
Coyte, E & Lowry, R.
Cohort & Subject:
Foundation Year, Chemistry

This report describes the innovative use of formative–summative paired laboratory assessments in chemistry and demonstrates an association between student engagement with formative online assessments and summative attainment.  For both gravimetric analysis and titration pairs, students who engaged with the formative assessment scored significantly higher in the corresponding summative assessment. Additionally, students who engaged with both formative assessments scored significantly higher in mid-module and end-of-module tests than students who did not.

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