Learn to Think Like a Scientist!

Technology to Improve Education Since 1999
Patent 6,529,705

Only Online Labs Achieving National Research Council Lab Definition and Goals.

Only Online Labs in College Board Approved Courses for All Laboratory Sciences.

Outstanding Achievement Award for Promoting Scientific Reasoning.
Smart Science® Instructional Units
Highly Experimental
Real Experiments (not simulations)
Offline, Safe “Kitchen” Experiments
Scientific Inquiry
Hypothesis Formulation
Real Data Collection (no canned data)
Graphs and Data in Online Lab Reports
Warm-up and Review Quizzes
Extra Credit Problems and Reports
Scientist Biographies and Vocabulary
Solution Strategies and Math Help
Student Work Retained Online
Reports Evaluated and Graded Online
Performance and Curriculum Tracked
Grade 6 through College Difficulty Levels
Beginning Teachers Supported
Lab Costs Reduced Significantly
Los Angeles
Paracomp, Inc.
1999
For over 100 years, scientists and educators have written about the correct way to teach science by having students think like scientists. The Smart Science® inventors designed and built instructional lab units to make this teaching method practical and inexpensive.
Testimonials
We're glad to use the Smart Science® labs in our AP courses because of the labs' sophisticated model for investigations, including all-important hypothesis formulation. We're especially pleased that students are required to gather data that isn't inherently "cleaned" by being canned in advance. And the support from the Smart Science® team for our implementation couldn't be better.

David Pelizzari, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Content and Curriculum
K12 Inc.

I really like using Smart Science® labs in my classes. They support inquiry learning using real experiments making them the closest to traditional hands-on labs that I have ever seen on a computer. They also allow students to do experiments that would be too dangerous to do in a hands-on setting.

Judith Nuño
Online Instructor
Course Supervisor and Developer
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Talented Youth

Call 310-773-4293 to create a complete course using Smart Science® instructional units.
Smart Science® instructional algebra units will be available soon.

Patent No. 6,529,705
Trademark Registration No. 2,941,025
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