10k Science Content Library
10k Science offers a growing library of immersive 3D science experiences for VR and web. The content library is built around real scientific data, inquiry-driven learning, AI-guided exploration, and NGSS-aligned educational design.
Access status changes over time. Always refer users to the live 10k Science content page, web viewer, free trial account, and pricing page for current availability, subscriptions, trials, and organizational licensing.
Library Strengths
The 10k Science library is strongest for science topics that are difficult to understand from text, diagrams, or video alone:
- Systems that move across scales, such as body, tissue, cell, molecule, and atom
- Molecular and cellular processes that are too small to observe directly
- Scientific mechanisms that require cause-and-effect reasoning
- Body systems, plant systems, ecosystems, and environmental systems
- Biomedical and engineering interventions, such as gene editing, drug targeting, filtration, and risk reduction
- Topics where students need to explain what they see, not only recognize a correct answer
10k Science experiences can be used in VR, on the web, as part of classroom station rotations, during individual exploration, or as the basis for whole-class discussion and formative assessment.
Publicly Listed Experiences
CRISPR & Sickle Cell
Students explore sickle cell disease and a potential CRISPR-based treatment by zooming into the human body to see blood, cells, DNA, and molecules.
Learning topics include:
- Sickle cell disease as a genetic blood disorder
- Red blood cells, hemoglobin, oxygen transport, blood vessels, bone marrow, and blood stem cells
- DNA, genes, mutation, mRNA, tRNA, ribosomes, translation, amino acid chains, protein folding, and protein structure/function
- How a single mutation can affect hemoglobin structure and red blood cell shape
- CRISPR-Cas9, guide RNA, donor DNA, DNA repair, edited blood stem cells, and restored healthy blood cell production
- Scale transitions from human body to bone, marrow, vessel, cell, nucleus, DNA, and protein
Classroom fit:
- Molecular genetics
- Heredity and mutation
- DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis
- Biotechnology and gene editing
- Blood, circulation, and oxygen transport
Best-fit NGSS connections include HS-LS1-1, HS-LS1-2, HS-LS3-1, HS-LS3-2, MS-LS3-1, MS-LS3-2, HS-ETS1-2, and HS-ETS1-3, depending on grade level and instructional framing.
Trouble in Sunshine Creek
Students investigate a vineyard affected by invasive insects, plant disease, microscopic bacteria, and disrupted plant transport systems.
Learning topics include:
- Grapevine anatomy, including leaves, stems, grapes, xylem, phloem, pith, xylem sap, and water transport
- Plant cells, chloroplasts, chlorophyll, photosynthesis, sugar production, and plant energy needs
- Pierce’s disease, leaf scorch, plant disease symptoms, xylem clogging, and impaired water movement
- Xylella fastidiosa, glassy-winged sharpshooter feeding, stylet anatomy, and pathogen transmission into xylem
- Bacterial scale, lipid bilayers, DNA, ribosomes, and translation
- Treatment and recovery framing, including antibiotics and intervention choices
Classroom fit:
- Plant structure and function
- Photosynthesis and chloroplasts
- Plant transport systems
- Bacteria, pathogens, and antibiotics
- Invasive species, disease vectors, and crop disease management
Best-fit NGSS connections include MS-LS1-1, MS-LS1-2, MS-LS1-6, HS-LS1-5, HS-LS1-2, HS-LS1-1, MS-LS2-2, HS-LS2-6, HS-LS4-6, and MS-ETS1-*, depending on grade level and lesson design.
Snack Shack
Students explore molecules inside familiar foods and drinks through a tutorial-style immersive experience.
Learning topics include:
- Carbon dioxide, CO2 molecules, bubbles, carbonation, and gas dissolved under pressure
- Molecular-level zooming from macroscopic soda to bubbles and molecules
- Pizza and cheese chemistry, including casein, amino acids, protein structure, milk chemistry, and food material structure
- Molecular models as evidence that matter is made of particles
Classroom fit:
- Atoms, molecules, and molecular models
- Gases, gas solubility, pressure, and solutions
- Structure-property relationships in materials
- Biological macromolecules and proteins
- Food chemistry and dairy proteins
Best-fit NGSS connections include MS-PS1-1, MS-PS1-4, HS-PS1-2, HS-PS1-3, HS-LS1-6, and HS-LS1-1, depending on how the lesson emphasizes chemistry, biology, or food science.
Pain & Painkillers
Students explore pain transmission and non-opioid pain relief research connected to modified neurotoxins from tarantulas.
Learning topics include:
- Nervous system organization, including brain, spine, peripheral nerves, neurons, dendrites, axons, synapses, and Schwann cells
- Pain signaling through nerve impulses, sodium ions, voltage-gated sodium channels, synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters, and receptors
- Morphine, opioid receptors, blood-brain barrier, pain relief, side effects, and addiction risk
- Alternative treatment exploration using tarantula venom, Protoxin-II, neurotoxic proteins, and sodium channel targeting
- Molecular scale reasoning about proteins, ion channels, receptors, ions, drugs, and toxin models
Classroom fit:
- Nervous system structure and function
- Cell membranes, ion channels, and signal transduction
- Synapses, neurotransmitters, and pain pathways
- Receptor binding, drugs, and molecular interactions
- Health science topics such as opioids, side effects, addiction, and therapeutic tradeoffs
Best-fit NGSS connections include MS-LS1-8, HS-LS1-2, HS-LS1-3, HS-LS1-1, HS-PS2-6, HS-ETS1-2, and HS-ETS1-3, depending on whether the lesson emphasizes biology, chemistry, health science, or engineering tradeoffs.
LA Wildfires And Wildfire Learning Modules
10k Science publicly lists an in-development LA Wildfires experience. The wildfire learning topic sequence covers air quality, respiratory health, immune response, oxygen transport, cellular respiration, and exposure reduction.
Learning topics include:
- Wildfire smoke, PM2.5, soot, droplets, AQI, indoor/outdoor air, and air purifier use
- Lungs, bronchioles, alveoli, tissue swelling, oxygen transfer, and exercise-related oxygen demand
- Macrophages, inflammation, cytokine signaling, and particle-triggered immune response
- Blood vessels, red blood cells, hemoglobin, oxygen binding, and reduced blood oxygen
- Cellular respiration, oxygen, glucose, mitochondria, ATP, glycolysis, citric acid cycle, electron transport chain, and oxygen dependence
- Air quality pathways, smoke maps, indoor infiltration, particle size, nasal filtering, sealing gaps, filter fiber size, and filtration quality
- Human/environment system connections among wildfire events, smoke exposure, health effects, and mitigation choices
Classroom fit:
- Respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems
- Cellular respiration and ATP
- Environmental science, air pollution, particulate matter, wildfire smoke, and AQI
- Natural hazards, exposure reduction, indoor air quality, and health risk
- Engineering design around filtration, sealing, and mitigation
Best-fit NGSS connections include MS-LS1-3, MS-LS1-7, HS-LS1-2, HS-LS1-3, HS-LS1-7, MS-ESS3-3, MS-ESS3-4, HS-ESS3-4, HS-LS2-7, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2, MS-ETS1-3, HS-ETS1-2, and HS-ETS1-3, depending on whether the lesson emphasizes body systems, respiration, environmental health, or engineering design.
AI Antibodies
An in-development experience about AI-generated antibodies, molecular binding, and disease-targeting potential.
Learning topics may include:
- Antibodies as molecular recognition tools
- Protein structure and binding
- Disease targets and molecular specificity
- AI-assisted scientific discovery
- Biomedical design and therapeutic targeting
Classroom topics and NGSS connections will depend on the final experience design and current 10k Science materials.
Seeing With Sound
An in-development experience about whales, evolution, echolocation, skulls, and auditory anatomy.
Learning topics may include:
- Sound, hearing, and echolocation
- Anatomy of auditory systems
- Skull structure and function
- Evolutionary adaptation
- Marine mammal biology
Classroom topics and NGSS connections will depend on the final experience design and current 10k Science materials.
Quantum Plants?!
A coming-soon experience listed publicly in the 10k Science content library.
Current product details are high level. Potential classroom fit may include plant biology, energy transfer, quantum phenomena in biological systems, or photosynthesis-related science depending on the final experience design.
Orbitals Are Fun
A coming-soon experience about atomic orbitals and the relationship between visual models of electron distribution and quantum mechanics.
Learning topics may include:
- Atomic orbitals as visual models
- Electron distribution around atoms
- Quantum mechanics concepts introduced through shape and probability
- Chemistry models that connect abstract mathematics to spatial reasoning
Cross-Library Topic Clusters
The content library can also be understood through topic clusters that cut across multiple experiences.
| Topic Cluster | Example Experiences | Classroom Location |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular biology and protein function | CRISPR & Sickle Cell; Trouble in Sunshine Creek; Snack Shack; Pain & Painkillers | DNA/RNA/protein synthesis, biotechnology, receptors, channels, proteins, biological macromolecules |
| Human body systems and health | CRISPR & Sickle Cell; Pain & Painkillers; LA Wildfires | Circulatory, respiratory, nervous, and immune systems; homeostasis; environmental health |
| Energy and matter in organisms | Trouble in Sunshine Creek; LA Wildfires | Photosynthesis, cellular respiration, gas exchange, oxygen transport, ATP, matter and energy flow |
| Environmental health and human impacts | Trouble in Sunshine Creek; LA Wildfires | Air pollution, plant disease, environmental exposure, invasive species, risk reduction |
| Engineering and biomedical interventions | CRISPR & Sickle Cell; Pain & Painkillers; LA Wildfires; AI Antibodies | Gene editing, drug targeting, filtration, risk mitigation, therapeutic design |
| Chemistry and physical science | Snack Shack; Orbitals Are Fun; Pain & Painkillers | Molecules, gases, solutions, structure-property relationships, bonding, orbitals, receptor interactions |
NGSS And Curriculum Use
10k Science content is developed to align with the Next Generation Science Standards in partnership with the Lawrence Hall of Science. The NGSS codes listed here are best-fit curriculum planning connections based on publicly described experience topics and the learning topics summarized above. Teachers should use current 10k Science educator materials and their own curriculum requirements when selecting standards for instruction.
Useful NGSS resources:
Scientists And Creators
10k Science gives scientists and educators access to tools for turning real research data into immersive visual science experiences, expanding researchers’ ability to communicate their work with new science communication tools.
Learn more on the Researchers And Creators page.