No. 01
Matter Explorers
A science treehouse about what things are made of, and how they change.
Grade 2 Science, social studies, reading
Small worlds that put the teacher in charge of the lesson.
Williams Labs builds 3D classroom worlds for second grade. Four of the five are built to the Georgia standards, and a lesson shows its code wherever one applies. They run in the browser, with no student accounts, and we collect nothing from students.
Fig. 1 Three promises
What you can count on before you plan a lesson around a world.
It runs in the browser.
Nothing to install. A world is a web page, built for classroom Chromebooks and iPads.
No student accounts.
No world has a sign-in, and neither does Readaloud. Children open it and begin.
We collect nothing from students.
What a child types or says stays on the device unless a teacher exports it. Stars, notebooks and reading results are saved there, not with us.
Fig. 2 Worlds on a shelf
Five worlds. Each one is a place, not a worksheet.
A treehouse lab, a tabletop Georgia, an island with a bank made of shells. Each has a label you can check: its subject and, where it has them, its standard codes and grade.
No. 01
Matter Explorers
Sort 19 everyday objects, rebuild 24 linking cubes, and find out which changes can be undone.
No. 02
Georgia, My State
Six units and 38 star activities on one tabletop map, each a minute or two long.
No. 03
Shell Island
Trade, choose, share and save with pretend shells, one chapter per economics standard.
Free showpiece
In the workshop
No. 05
Sky Watch
In the workshop. Shadows, day length, the Moon and the stars, from a Georgia backyard.
Fig. 3 Reading
Readaloud: a reading check that listens on the device.
A child reads a story aloud to Pip the owl, then answers three spoken questions. Readaloud marks the reading and estimates a level from A to Z. You review it and confirm it. The app never confirms a score on its own.
Levels are automatic estimates from Readaloud’s own passages, not official F&P levels.
Trial classroom links open in December.
No. 06
Readaloud
Also From the workshop: a 60-second film
Inside a Human Cell
Life science. Upper elementary and middle school. Not second grade. A look at where the workshop is heading. Free to watch, with sound.
Fig. 4 The privacy label
Read it the way you read the side of a cereal box.
A principal should not need a lawyer to see what a classroom app does with a child’s name or voice. So we print it as a label, row by row, and we say where the worlds differ.
What we collect from students
Nothing. What a child types or says stays on the device unless a teacher exports it.
- Accounts or logins
- None
- Names
- First name or nickname, device only
- Voice recordings
- Never uploaded
- Stored on the device
- Progress, notebooks, results
- Leaves the device
- Only files a teacher exports
- Ads or tracking from Williams Labs
- None
This is the short label. The full one states every limit. Read the full label
Fig. 5 The Second-Grade Table
The science and social studies year, drawn like a periodic table.
One tile for each Georgia science and social studies standard. Solid tiles have a world today. The rest show you exactly what we have not built yet.
Fig. 6 Pricing
Free to try. One small price for the classroom.
The first station or chapter of every world will be free, and The Flooded Forest is free in full. One pass covers every world and Readaloud for your classroom.
Fig. 7 From the notebook
Made for a real classroom.
These worlds were built for a second-grade classroom in Georgia.
Georgia, My State has been used with a second-grade class, and Readaloud with a full one. We will say the same of the others when it is true.
The Williams Labs notebook
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