The lab you can do from anywhere.
Every AQA Required Practical, rebuilt as a step-by-step activity your child can work through at their own pace. Lab equipment that feels real, proper scientific drawings, real measurements - and a log of every step, for practising Apparatus and Techniques (AT) skills. No splashes on the carpet.
Enter SoloLab →Virtual Required Practicals - made for foundation students who learn by doing.
Onion epidermis under the microscope. Osmosis in potato cylinders. Reactivity of metals. Every AQA Required Practical, rebuilt as a step-by-step activity your child can work through at their own pace - the same equipment, the same choices to make, and the same kinds of mistakes you'd make in a real lab. Just safer, repeatable, and available from anywhere.
- 1Lab equipment that feels real. Beakers, test tubes, and pipettes with the same weight and motion you would expect in a school lab - not a flat form on a screen.
- 2A proper science sketchbook. A graph-paper page with sketching tools and scale-bar maths, so students can draw what they see. One tap files the drawing into their portfolio.
- 3Real mistakes are possible. Skip a step? You see the wrong result. Forgot the iodine? The cells stay invisible under the microscope - the same mistake they would make in a real lab, just safer.
- 4An automatic lab log. Every action, mistake, and undo is captured into a record that exports as a PDF, listing the Apparatus and Techniques (AT) skills practised. It supports the practical a student does in class; it does not replace it.
Required Practicals - rehearsed, recorded, and ready for the real thing
The lab log captures every action a student takes during a virtual Required Practical - what they measured, what they tried, what they corrected, and what observation they recorded. The file exports as a time-stamped PDF that lists the AT and MS skills involved. A virtual lab is rehearsal and revision: students still carry out the Required Practicals themselves, and only their school can sign that work off. For students learning at home, on attendance plans, or in EOTAS placements, the log shows the teacher what the student has practised.
Find the scientists hidden across the lessons.
As students work through SoloLab they uncover the real people behind the science - Hooke at the microscope, Mendel in the pea garden, Crick at the model, Goodall in the forest. Tap their name when they appear, watch the data sync, and their portrait lights up forever. Curiosity, not coverage.
- 1Discoveries woven into the lessons. Each Required Practical introduces the scientist whose work is most closely linked to the technique - not as a sidebar but as part of the lesson itself.
- 2Locked after first click. Discoveries are permanent once collected - no need to grind for streaks, and no losing them through accidental refreshes.
- 3Synced across devices. Saved to the student's SoloCogs account, so a discovery made on a school laptop is still there on the home tablet.
- 4A reason to keep exploring. The "??" cards are visible from day one - students see how much is still out there, and that's often the spark that pulls them into a topic they wouldn't have chosen on their own.
Wherever a student is learning from.
SoloLab was designed to remove the barriers that stop foundation students from accessing practical science - whether the barrier is the building, the lab itself, or the way labs are usually taught.
Home learners & EOTAS
Practical science you can rehearse from a kitchen table, with a lab log that shows the school what the student has practised.
Attendance needs & school refusal
Students can complete the same Required Practicals at their own pace, in their own setting, without missing the AT skills the curriculum expects them to demonstrate.
Accessible by design
Read aloud, colour overlays, retry without penalty, plain-English mode, and big tap targets - so the lab works for the kind of mind it was built for.
Enter SoloLab
Free to try - no card needed. Open Cell Biology and walk through your first Required Practical.
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