LEARNING
FRONTIER Created by ACED

THE NEXT FRONTIER IS HOW WE LEARN

Explore what
learning can be.

A universe of possibility.
Open to everyone.

Let’s make something extraordinary Explore the experiences
AN OPEN LEARNING R&D STUDIOKeep exploring

01 / A NEW FIELD OF POSSIBILITY

What if learning
worked differently?

An idea you can move. A decision you can rehearse. A world you can change.

Learning Frontier is an open learning research and development studio created by ACED. We build experiences that turn curiosity into understanding—and share them freely.

02 / NEW WORLDS. ENDLESS WHAT IFS.

Step into
the possible.

Free worlds to explore.
New ways to bring learning to life.

Grades 6–12 resources on TPT

NEW EXPLORATION / GRADES 6–12

Storm Lab

One storm.
A world of connections.

Build a hurricane. Change the conditions. Follow the consequences. A live 3D visualizer turns storm formation, coastal flooding, and real-world decisions into questions students can investigate.

Pair the free lab with TPT learning materials for grades 6–12, connecting science, math, history, social studies, and economics through one shared experience.

Explore Storm LabFind teaching materials on TPT

Free visualizer · No account required · Companion materials on TPT

Storm Lab’s hurricane visualizer, with ocean-temperature and wind-shear controls and a five-day growth graph
INSIDE THE LIVE LAB

Seven grade-level missions. A historical hurricane archive. Room to explore.

Illustrated lunar landscape with Earth above the horizonLUNAR OBSERVATORY
Illustrative campaign artwork · Not to scale

EARTH & SPACE / GRADES 6–12

AstroLab

Small moves.
Cosmic discoveries.

Follow the Moon. Shift your perspective. See the Earth–Moon system become something you can investigate, with seven grade pathways, guided missions, and interactive views.

Turn predictions into evidence, then take the investigation further with companion classroom resources from our Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Explore AstroLabFind teaching materials on TPT

Free visualizer · No account required · Companion materials on TPT

Keep following your curiosity.

Five more ways to make the invisible visible.

SOUND & DISCOVERY · BETA

Sound Lab

Tune a frequency and watch sand find a pattern. Trace harmony, explore interfering waves, and sculpt the character of a tone in four hands-on sound experiments.

Resonance · Harmony · WavesFree access

INTERACTIVE EARTH SCIENCE

Volcano Lab

Look beneath the surface. Change the magma, release the gas, and compare eruptions in a landscape you can turn, pause, and explore.

Magma · Eruptions · ExperimentsFree access

IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION

Ocean Explorer

From sunlit waters to the deepest trench. Meet extraordinary life, watch real ocean footage, and investigate how light and pressure shape the world below.

Depths · Habitats · DiscoveryFree access

Help keep these experiences free

Sound, magnet, volcano, and ocean artwork is illustrative. Every experience opens in a new tab, free to explore.

Learn and gather.
Parenting in community.

LIFEPROOF PARENTING / SESSION-BASED LEARNING

A more human architecture
for learning.

LifeProof Parenting reimagines the conventions of the learning management system around a simple, powerful idea: the session is the foundation. A free, open-access experience brings courses, reflection, and community into a continuous learning journey, with no account or password required.

Learners can save a session, return with a private resume code—even on another device—and export their notes, reflections, saved resources, and course details. Each session becomes a portable record of discovery, ready to carry into everyday life.

Begin freely.No account required.Return effortlessly.Save your session.Carry it forward.Export your learning.
Explore LifeProof Parenting

03 / CURIOSITY, WITH A METHOD

We make things.
Then we ask better questions.

Every experience is an invitation to learn—and an opportunity to understand how learning itself can work better.

01

Ask something worth exploring.

Start with a real learning challenge. An idea that’s hard to see. A skill that needs practice. A question with room for discovery.

02

Make the idea tangible.

Build something people can change, choose, test, or create. Let the learner become part of what happens.

03

Learn from the experience.

Listen to learners. Notice where understanding grows and where the design gets in the way. Refine, then try again.

04

Share what moves us forward.

Release useful experiences freely. Share the questions, design choices, and discoveries behind the work.

04 / SMALL SPARKS. WHOLE NEW WORLDS.

Learning takes
many forms.

We follow the learning question.
The format grows from there.

01Widgets & tools

One idea, made visible. Small interactive tools that help people see a relationship, test an assumption, or solve a problem.

A MOMENT OF CLARITY
02Games & activities

Choices with consequences. Meaningful challenges, room to experiment, and feedback that makes the next attempt more informed.

A REASON TO TRY AGAIN
03Labs & simulations

Systems you can explore. Change a variable, make a prediction, and investigate what happens. Planet Lab is our first exploration.

Enter Planet Lab
04Course experiences

A connected journey from curiosity to capability. Guided practice, thoughtful feedback, and something meaningful to take into the real world.

A JOURNEY THAT BUILDS

05 / FROM THE STUDIO

FIELD NOTE
001DESIGN NOTE · PLANET LAB

Give curiosity
something to do.

A planet becomes a learning experience when you can ask “what if?”—and do something about it.

In Planet Lab, a prediction comes before an experiment. You change one variable, see the result, and compare it with what you expected. A surprising answer becomes a reason to look closer.

Read the design note

The question behind the experience

Can making and testing a prediction help people explain how distance, greenhouse warming, and reflectivity affect a planet’s temperature?

Why start with one variable?

The guided missions hold other controls fixed so a relationship is easier to see. Free exploration then opens all three controls, giving learners room to form questions of their own.

What the model makes visible

The experience connects an action to an immediate result. A brighter world reflects more sunlight. Moving closer to a fixed Sun-like star increases incoming energy. A chosen greenhouse warming offset raises the modeled temperature.

Where the model stops

This is a simplified energy-balance model. It does not reproduce a planet’s complete climate, and temperature alone cannot establish whether a world supports life. Those boundaries belong inside the learning experience.

What we want to learn next

We want to understand whether learners can explain a new scenario after exploring. That is a research question, not a demonstrated result. As the studio tests and refines its work, we’ll share what we find.

Try the experience

06 / POSSIBILITY BELONGS TO EVERYONE

Knowledge opens worlds.
Let’s leave the door open.

Our public Learning Frontier simulators and learning experiences are free to explore and share. Bring it into a classroom. Try it with a friend. Pass along something that changes how you see.

01

Open access.

No course fees. No membership required to learn.

02

Made to travel.

Share the experiences and keep their credits with them.

03

Room for everyone.

Clear language, thoughtful design, and different ways to participate.

A note on sharing

Share public experience links freely. Follow the credits and reuse details provided with individual resources; third-party material may have its own terms. Companion teaching resources sold through our TPT store have their own purchase and use terms. Keep private progress and return links to yourself. Free access does not imply that every project’s source code is released.

POSSIBILITY STAYS OPEN BECAUSE OF YOU

Thank you for
fueling discovery.

Your generosity helps us build and freely share experiences that turn curiosity into understanding. We’re glad you’re part of the frontier.

With gratitude, the Learning Frontier team

07 / THE STUDIO BEHIND THE EXPLORATION

Ambitious by design.
Generous by nature.

Learning Frontier is the open learning R&D initiative created by ACED.

We bring learning design, creative technology, and a spirit of experimentation together to push what’s possible in digital learning.

Our mission is to expand what learning can be by designing, testing, and freely sharing experiences that turn curiosity into understanding and capability.

We’re building a growing body of work—and sharing what we discover along the way.

Meet ACED
ACED

CUSTOM LEARNING SYSTEMS
ONLINE · IN PERSON · BLENDED

THE STUDIO BEHIND LEARNING FRONTIER

Wonder, with
a system behind it.

Learning people want to start.
A platform that helps them finish.

ACED brings engaging courses, hands-on simulations, and the systems that support them into one connected experience—built around your people, your work, and what they need to be able to do.

Let’s build your learning systemExplore the ACED platform

THE EXPERIENCE. THE PLATFORM. THE PROOF.

Everything connects
to the learner.

01 / ENGAGE

Make the learning worth their attention.

Custom courses, narrated lessons, branching decisions, and explorable 3D environments turn information into something people can practice.

02 / SUPPORT

Give every learner a place to progress.

Bring staff logins, learning pathways, assessments, and certificates together in a custom learning portal—or connect the experience to your existing LMS.

03 / UNDERSTAND

See what’s working. Know where to coach.

Manager dashboards and progress reports connect participation, scores, and skill gaps to the next useful action.

ACED Room Ready simulator showing a three-dimensional hotel room
ROOM READY

Practice in the place where the work happens.

ACED’s three-dimensional building simulation set on a city street
X-RAY BUILDING

Make complex places and systems explorable.

Actual simulator imagery from the ACED showcase.

Your subject. Your standards.
Your next great learning experience.

Tell us what you want to build

09 / YOUR NEXT GREAT IDEA STARTS HERE

Let’s make
something extraordinary.

FROM WHAT IF TO WHAT’S NEXT.

Bring the big idea.
The tricky topic.
The thing nobody’s tried yet.

Tell us who you’re designing for and what you want to make possible. A rough idea is a great place to start.

Projects, partnerships, or a question?Start with the form

Custom projects and partnerships are led by ACED. Learning Frontier’s public experiences stay free to explore and share.

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