Every lesson is a game too
Reading something once isn't enough to remember it in an exam. You have to keep pulling it back out of your head. So every lesson on every course comes with a quiz, a TV-style quiz show and a zombie defence game, plus flash cards and 3D games for the trickiest topics. Every question is written from the lesson, so it all follows the exam board's specification.
Who Wants to Be a Lemonaire?
Lights, music and a host who talks to you. Zane Zest asks questions on the lesson you've just done, and you climb the Lemon Tree to a million lemons. Use 50:50, Phone a Friend or Ask the Audience if you're stuck.
Why it's fun
- A proper quiz show studio with a theme tune
- Three lifelines and a phone-a-friend
- Take the lemons or risk it all
- Beat your best score
How it teaches
- Every question comes from the lesson
- Starts with true or false, then builds up to four options
- Get one wrong and Zane shows the line from the lesson that explains it
Last Stand: they want brains. Use yours.
A 3D tower defence game. Build gun towers, snipers and tesla coils to stop the horde reaching your bunker. The catch? The scrap you build with comes from answering questions on the lesson.
Why it's fun
- A 4-level story with survivors and a boss
- Airstrikes, orbital lasers and flashbangs
- Recruit, Soldier and Veteran levels, with 3 stars to win
- Blitz mode for a quick 2.5-minute game
How it teaches
- Knowing the lesson is how you win
- "Urgent intel" questions pop up mid-battle against the clock, like exam pressure
- Wrong answers show the right one, so you learn as you play
Flash cards that actually test you
Not just flip and forget. Pick how tough: flip and rate yourself, read a clue and type the key word, or explain it in your own words and have it marked.
Why it's fun
- Points, streaks and lives
- Quickfire against the clock, or Endless with 3 lives
- Chilled lo-fi study music
- Swipe through them on your phone
How it teaches
- Pulling an answer out of your head (active recall) is one of the best ways to remember
- Cards you miss come back until you've got them
- Daily Recap brings cards back after 1, 3, 7, 16 and 35 days, just before you'd forget
Check it's gone in, straight after every lesson
Every lesson ends with its own quiz. Pick 12 or 25 questions, Quickfire against the clock, or Endless until you run out of lives.
Why it's fun
- Points, streaks and sound effects
- Easy, Medium or Hard
- Stars for your best score
How it teaches
- You find out what you don't know straight away
- The longer modes mix in earlier lessons from the same topic, so older ideas keep coming back
The tricky topics, turned into 3D games
Some ideas are far easier to understand when you can see them move and try them yourself. Each game is made for one part of a course, and most are free to play right now.
Free to playPartners in Peril
A 3D story game: predict how the Lemon Tree Café partners share profits, and what unlimited liability means for their houses
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Free to playMRS GREN Life Scanner
Load specimens into the scanner and test the seven life processes to decide what is really alive
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Free to playRiver Run
Fly a survey drone from source to mouth and build the Bradshaw Model: width, depth, velocity, discharge, gradient and load
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Free to playRock Factory
Follow a chunk of mountain on its 90-million-year journey: weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation and fossils
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Free to playMICE Tycoon
Run a 3D events city: send meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions to the right hall, keep business travellers happy, then win a world congress
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Free to playSocial Lens
Follow Sam through a 3D town to see socialisation, norms, values, roles, sanctions, identity, life chances and power at work in real life
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Free to playCore Dive
Drill from the Pacific sea floor to the centre of the Earth, use earthquake waves to prove the outer core is liquid, then see how the magnetic field shapes the oceans
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Free to playScatter Shot
Fire alpha particles at gold foil, collect the scattering evidence, squeeze the plum pudding into a nucleus to rebuild the model of the atom, then put every model from Dalton to Chadwick in order
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