Viewer, Guides, Dashboard, And Formative Assessment
10k Science combines an immersive learner experience with educator-facing tools for guided instruction, AI-supported feedback, and formative assessment. The product experience is built around four connected pieces: the Viewer, AI Guides, spoken student responses, and the Educator Dashboard.
Together, these tools create a feedback loop for science learning: students explore an immersive 3D environment, the AI Guide prompts them to observe and explain, students respond verbally, AI helps assess understanding, and teachers receive dashboard visibility into student thinking.
Educators can start a free trial account for the web platform to try the browser-based viewer and Educator Dashboard.
Viewer
The 10k Science Viewer lets learners enter interactive 3D science environments in VR and on the web. Students can explore environments, select objects, zoom across layers of context, and interact with scientific content in ways that are difficult to reproduce with static media.
The Viewer is designed for topics where students need to understand spatial relationships, mechanisms, and systems across scales. Examples include moving from a human body to cells and molecules, tracing a disease mechanism, observing interactions among organisms and pathogens, or connecting microscopic events to larger outcomes.
The Viewer supports:
- Immersive exploration in VR and browser-based access on the web
- Interactive 3D environments built from real scientific data
- Object selection and contextual information
- Movement across nested scales, such as body, tissue, cell, and molecule
- Experiences that can be used individually, in small groups, or in classroom rotations
AI Guides
AI Guides audibly guide students through 10k Science environments. They can inform, instruct, prompt students with questions, and respond to verbal answers in real time.
The AI Guide functions like an instructional agent embedded inside the experience. It helps students know where to look, what to compare, and how to explain the science they are encountering. This matters because immersive environments can contain a lot of information; the guide helps turn exploration into purposeful sensemaking.
AI Guides can support:
- Orientation inside each environment
- Attention to relevant structures, objects, and relationships
- Inquiry prompts tied to the science content
- Spoken student explanations
- Personalized real-time feedback
- Formative checks for key concepts
- A more active learning experience than passive viewing
10k Science materials also refer to customizable AI Guides and educator tools. Current access to customization features may vary by product offering; availability is listed on the live 10k Science website or can be confirmed during an educator demo.
Formative Assessment
10k Science is positioned as a formative assessment tool, not a high-stakes testing system. Students answer prompts verbally as they move through experiences. AI helps score student understanding based on those responses and can provide feedback during the learning experience.
The formative assessment loop works like this:
- Students explore a 3D science environment.
- The AI Guide prompts observation, explanation, or comparison.
- Students respond verbally.
- AI analyzes the response for understanding of key concepts.
- Students receive feedback during the experience.
- Teachers can review student responses and understanding through dashboard tools.
This loop is especially useful for science because understanding often depends on explanation, not just recognition. A student may be able to click the right object but still misunderstand the mechanism. Spoken responses help reveal how students are connecting evidence, cause and effect, scale, structure, and function.
Educator Dashboard
The Educator Dashboard gives teachers visibility into student progress and understanding. 10k Science materials describe the dashboard as displaying and summarizing students’ verbal responses to prompts throughout the experience in real time, and as helping educators identify where individual students are having challenges.
The dashboard is designed to help teachers move from “students completed the activity” to “students explained the science in these ways.” That distinction matters for formative assessment, because teachers need evidence of student thinking in order to decide what to do next.
The educator experience emphasizes:
- Real-time insight into student understanding
- Student verbal responses to prompts
- AI-assisted scoring and feedback
- Support for individualized teacher feedback
- Formative assessment, not high-stakes assessment
Teacher Workflows
Educators can use the Viewer, AI Guides, and Dashboard in several classroom workflows:
- Individual exploration: students move through a web or VR experience independently while responding to AI Guide prompts.
- Small-group investigation: students discuss what they see, then one student responds verbally for the group.
- VR station rotation: students rotate through a headset experience while other students use web, readings, diagrams, or discussion activities.
- Whole-class debrief: the teacher uses patterns in student responses to guide discussion after the experience.
- Pre-lab or post-lab reasoning: students use an immersive model before or after hands-on work to connect procedures to underlying mechanisms.
- Targeted follow-up: the teacher uses dashboard signals to identify students or concepts that need more support.
What Teachers Can Learn
The dashboard and AI-assisted assessment are intended to help teachers answer practical classroom questions:
- Which students are explaining the key concept clearly?
- Which students are using incomplete or incorrect reasoning?
- Which parts of the experience caused confusion?
- Which concepts need a quick reteach or class discussion?
- Which students may need individual feedback?
- Which student explanations could be used as examples for the class?
This makes 10k Science useful not only as an immersive science viewer, but also as a formative assessment layer around the immersive activity.
Educators interested in trying the web workflow can start a free trial account.
Relationship To NGSS Learning
10k Science experiences are designed to support NGSS-aligned science learning. The Viewer gives students phenomena and models to explore, while AI Guides and formative assessment prompts ask students to observe, explain, and connect ideas.
This fits especially well with NGSS practices and crosscutting concepts. Students can use the experience to reason about cause and effect, structure and function, systems and system models, scale, patterns, and stability and change.