Build it. Test it. Break it. Understand it.
Silika is a science sandbox. Learn the theory, run the experiment virtually, check your understanding, and arrive at the real lab ready.
Try it: does a heavier swing go faster?
Change one thing at a time and time ten swings. This is how every Silika experiment works: predict, test, measure, explain.
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Real labs, not pictures of labs
Every bench is a working model: build a circuit and a solver computes each current, titrate and watch the pH curve, tune a string and hear its harmonics.
Bench-ready before the bench
Two labs teach what every practical needs: how to work safely and how to use the equipment. Pupils start here, and earn a lab safety certificate.
Whatever your school teaches
The same labs follow 6 curricula. Pick yours and Silika shows its stages, topics and codes, with the experiments for each.
- IB · PYP, MYP, DP
- Cambridge · IGCSE, A Level
- AP
- Australian Curriculum
- Singapore · O Level, A Level
- Mongolian national curriculum
Ready for the exam
Practice for the practical and data questions that international science exams ask, on the experiments pupils have just run.
- 247 exam-style questions with mark schemes and worked answers.
- Data tables, graphs, uncertainties, calculations and evaluation: the skills IGCSE, O Level, A Level, AP and IB papers test.
- A common wrong answer gets its own hint, so pupils learn from the mistake.
- Each experiment shows the syllabus points it covers for your curriculum.
New questions written to the same skills, not past papers.
- Cambridge IGCSE
- Cambridge AS & A Level
- Singapore O Level
- Singapore A Level H2
- AP Physics · Chemistry · Biology
- IB MYP · IB DP
Made for the whole class
Students
A home page with what is due and what to try next, narrated demos, and grains and badges for every experiment.
Teachers
A home page with what each class needs, live rooms and quiz races, homework, and marking with IB criteria.
Schools & centres
Your own address and brand, your curriculum, and sign-in by Google, email link or a PIN card for young children.
Families
One plan for a parent and up to five children, each with their own sign-in card and progress.
How it works
Each experiment is prepared here first, so lab time goes on doing science.
Learn
The theory, goals, tools and safety for the experiment.
Experiment
Run it in a virtual lab: change one thing, measure, repeat.
Check
A short quiz shows what is understood and what is not yet.
Lab-ready
Arrive at the physical lab prepared, safety rules confirmed.
A reason to come back
Every pupil opens Silika to their own home page: what is due, what they did last week, and the next experiment worth trying.
- Grains of sand for learning: finishing steps, beating a quiz score, getting lab-ready, a write-up returned.
- Levels from a single grain to a silicon chip, a bronze, silver and gold ladder in each lab, and a week streak that holidays never break.
- The class fills a jar together each week. A class board shows only when the teacher turns it on.
- Grain
- Sand
- Glass
- Lens
- Prism
- Crystal
- Chip
An AI tutor in every experiment
A tutor that asks the next good question rather than giving the answer.
Bring Silika to your classroom
Plans for learners, families, training centres and schools.