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RALLY COMMAND

PHYSICSSTRATEGYRACING
Grand Rally illustration with student-designed cars, boats, aircraft and flagships along a sunny coast

Classroom playtest · Shared screen

DREADNOUGHT COAST

Own the coast.

Race the Dreadnought Coast and battle across land, sea and air with student-designed vehicles.

Play

Choose a crew. Race, battle and practise on the coast.

Play Rally Command
BattleRacePractice

1–4 players on one screen.
Turn your iPad sideways for shared touch controls.

More tracks & modes

Investigate

Make a prediction. Change one thing. Explain what the evidence shows.

Physics Foundry

Vehicle packets
Use your teacher-issued Coastal Trials V4 packet for calculations, observations and explanations.

Design

Explore class creations and build your next vehicle.

Student vehicle gallery
2D PROJECTILE MOTION
State of the Arc
ARC SMARTER, NOT HARDER.

Motion in two dimensions

State of the Arc

Practice projectile physics, complete a guided lab, or put your calculations to work in a game.

Horizontal & angled practice
Beacon Line & Earth Range Lab

Choose your activity to find its matching worksheet.

2D motionProjectiles
Jack with his amber grapple beneath towering machinesA PHYSICS ADVENTURE

Physics through story

Torch Bearer

Navigate, grapple, and solve problems in a science-fiction adventure.

Open Torch Bearer

Choose training or a mission from the game’s menu.

EVA trainingStory missionsPlayable preview
Level 1 student packet ↗
Pixel-art Cell City with organelle buildings and a protein courierPLAY · OBSERVE · EXPLAIN

Grade 8 · Life science

Cell City

Get to know Cell City and explore how an animal cell’s parts cooperate through protein deliveries, motor transport, and repair missions.

Choose a Cell City lesson

Follow your teacher’s lesson code. Each activity has a matching worksheet and recorded written work.

Cell structuresCooperationWritten explanations

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Classroom questions worth exploring.

Student Curiosities

These interactive explorations grew out of questions students asked in class. Created by your teacher to investigate those questions further, they connect visual models, mathematical ideas, and hands-on experiments. Follow a walkthrough, change something, and see what you can explain.

Blue number blocks connect a two-digit subtraction to a final digit sum of nine.
Number patternsAlgebra

The Nine Pattern

Why does this number trick lead to nine?

Start with a two-digit number and follow a surprising pattern through blocks, graphs, and algebra. Then investigate larger numbers and other number bases.

Start with arithmetic.

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Blue numerator parabolas and orange rational-function curves show a linked family of graphs.
FunctionsOptimization

Graph Clues & Function Families

How much can a few clues tell us about a function?

Watch intercepts, asymptotes, and other conditions narrow a family of possible graphs. Build an argument for a maximum, then explore bounds and values that can be approached but never reached.

Helpful background: quadratic graphs.

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Four connected blue unit cubes form the three-dimensional zigzag from the cube lesson.
GeometryPuzzles

Cube Reasoning Lab

How can we tell whether these pieces will fill a cube?

Connect a three-dimensional puzzle to coordinates, rotations, symmetry, and logical deductions. Experiment with a demonstration set or enter your own pieces.

Start visually; explore the notation as you go.

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A blue spring-powered cart carries a hinged gray cannon up a ramp; an orange projectile follows its flight toward a ground target.
EnergyProjectile motionRelative velocity

Spring Cart Virtual Lab

How does the cart’s motion at firing change where the projectile first lands?

Cock and release a spring-powered cart, fire its hinged cannon on a ramp, and compare the first impact. Change one setting at a time, record trials, and design a launch that reaches the target.

Helpful background: energy and two-dimensional motion. Includes a 43-minute investigation.

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Looking back · circa 2023–2025

Early Simulations

A look back at the ideas that shaped First Light Physics. Play four earlier simulations in their original styles and see how the collection has grown.

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