A living lesson library
Even now, educators using Now I See It can pick from a growing bank of lessons tuned to year group, subject, sensor, and the competency they want to strengthen. As the community grows, so does the vault.
The people using Now I See It are part of the resource. Your lessons, variations, and observations become the next educator's starting point.
Real classrooms are mixed: different year groups, different prior knowledge, gifted and still-catching-up learners sitting side by side, different subjects landing on the same phenomenon. The Now I See It library is organised so a single lesson can be reached from whichever angle matches the moment.
Each entry notes its year band, subject focus, sensor(s), duration, difficulty, safety, and extension ideas. The same piece of work appears under every facet it belongs to, so educators never have to guess where to look.
These are real entries pulled from the shipped lesson folders. They span early secondary through to sixth-form, single-sensor to cross-disciplinary, and easy to hard.
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A working compass from a sewing needle, a cork, and a bowl of water — built at the kitchen table in under an hour. Names the four cardinal directions in two languages, watches the needle align with Earth's magnetic field, and shows the library serves home educators and self-learners as much as it serves classrooms.
Students model distance-versus-intensity and discover a real physical law through measurement rather than assertion.
First contact with angular rate, sign conventions, and how a gyro differs from an accelerometer.
A classic experiment redone with live data. Students interrogate their own numbers and uncertainty rather than accept a textbook figure.
Some languages require their speakers to know which way is north at every moment. Others use 'left' and 'right' that change with whoever is facing where. Learners compare cardinal-direction vocabulary across at least three languages and ask what direction-words reveal about how a culture moves through the world. Genuinely transdisciplinary; optional GPS-sensor extension.
Sixth-form level sensor fusion. A gentle first look at why real systems combine sources rather than trust one.
This is a small window on what is there. The library already covers Y05 through Y13, all eleven supported sensor types, and many of the fifty competencies.
The same lesson is indexed many ways, so educators can find it from whichever direction makes sense to them.
Y05 through Y13 — a starting hint, not a rule. Pitched for the learner in front of you, with extensions and scaffolds either side. A motivated Y5 can handle a Y8 lesson; a struggling Y10 is often better served lower down. Ability and readiness drive the choice.
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, Computer Science, Design Technology, Music, and more. Single-subject or interdisciplinary.
Accelerometer, gyroscope, light, temperature, humidity, pressure, pH, sound, and the rest. Filter by what hardware you actually have.
Over fifty competencies — Data Literacy, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Systems Thinking, Curiosity, and more. Strengthen the habit, not just the content.
Interdisciplinary STEAM, Health and Wellbeing, Sustainability, Society, Arts, Design Technology. Match the lens your school is using.
Over fifty phenomena and forty-eight materials catalogued. Start from what you have on the bench and let the library suggest what fits.
Easy, Medium, Hard. Filter by what fits the moment — quick warm-ups, deeper investigations, or sixth-form-level challenge tasks.
From short fifteen-minute warm-ups to full one-hour investigations. Pick what fits the time you have in front of you.
Gifted and differentiated pathways are called out inside each lesson through extension notes and optional deeper tasks, so the same lesson can stretch one learner while supporting another. The same is true whether you're running a class, working one-to-one as a tutor, supporting a home-educated child, or learning solo as an autodidact — the lesson meets the learner, not the other way round.
We respect STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics — and the very real progress that name has bought education over the last two decades. We add the A in brackets, on purpose: STE(A)M. The brackets tell the reader two things at once. STEM is the foundation we honour. The Arts are the addition we make — graphic design, three-dimensional design, painting, dance, language arts, music, theatre. In our humble opinion, you cannot do good physics without the spatial reasoning a sculptor has, you cannot communicate a finding without the language craft a poet uses, and a learner who has practised dance has learned things about momentum and timing that the textbook does not yet know how to teach.
The Now I See It library treats every subject as worthy company for every other. A geography lesson sits alongside a poetry lesson alongside a physics lesson, because in the real practice of learning they were never apart.
As the community grows, every licensed client has access to the Community Vault — a shared pool of lessons published by other educators using Now I See It. Browse, download, adapt, reuse.
Publishing is a one-click action from inside the app. Download and reuse are available to every licensed seat.
We generate lessons, yes. But the richest material comes from the people actually running sessions with real students.
Your variations, context notes, what-went-wrong observations, and quiet brilliance are the vault. Contributions spread experience and good practice on a much broader footing than any single team could manage.
If you look for something and it is not there — a competency that is not yet indexed, a phenomenon we have not catalogued, a subject angle we missed, a year band that feels underserved — please tell us.
Wherever possible, categories, tags, and structural additions requested by a handful of educators will be added. The library should grow in the shape the community needs, not only in the shape we imagined.
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