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Validations
- Smart Science® lab units are the only online labs that achieve the definition and goals in America's Lab Report. The experiments and data collection are real. Scientific reasoning and the complexity and ambiguity of science are built in.
- Smart Science® lab units are the only online labs in College Board approved courses for all laboratory courses, including AP Biology, AP Chemistry and AP Physics.
- The Smart Science® innovation received an Outstanding Achievement Award for promoting scientific reasoning and a Patent.
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Features and Benefits
- Standards-based
- Inquiry-oriented
- Differentiated learning
- Scalable, sustainable innovation
- Real experiments (not simulations)
- Offline, safe "kitchen" experiments
- Scientific inquiry
- Hypothesis formulation
- Real data collection (not canned)
- Graphs with optional curve fits
- Online lab reports
- Pre-lab and post-lab assessments
- Vocabulary and math help
- Grade 6 through AP content
- Student work saved on server
- Report archive capability
- Performance and curriculum tracked
- Lab costs reduced significantly
- No hazardous materials
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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 'clean' by being canned in advance. And the support from the Smart Science® team couldn't be better."
David Pelizzari, Ph.D., Senior Director
K12 Inc.
"The labs are wonderful. They have solved our make-up lab issues and provided great science. I can see how many labs my students have done and easily archive their lab reports."
Amer Ismael, AP of Science
Info Tech High School, Long Island City, NY
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