Alpha Science — a selection of our best lessons
Each lesson here was reviewed and approved by James Moore (quotes and dates on the cards), and every video plays today. Links open the live course pages; no login needed.
The motor effect
James: "good lesson, 8/10" (video), "solid set of questions, particularly the 'how do you know' question, 9/10". David: "very good." Matthew: "Great! I like the summary of the examples at the end."
How sedimentary rock forms
James: "another example of a good video with a good ending: three bullet points which say what the audio is saying but paraphrase the wording."
Interactive article lesson, Unit 1 Lesson 23
James's pilot verdict, 24 Oct 2026: one of the three golden lessons the whole course is now written to. An article-led lesson, a different style from the video lessons: ideas revealed line by line, worked examples with reveal steps, a short quiz.
Photosynthesis: the reaction, written out
James on the demo, 22 Oct 2026: "sweet". The opening lesson of a 14-lesson topic built as videos plus questions.
Why a liquid takes the shape of its container
James, 14 Oct 2026: "lesson 7 is great" — "bullets working well".
A tissue, up close: similar cells doing one job
James, 14 Oct 2026: "great … fine to sign off".
Unit 10 Group 2: The motor effect
Nine lessons and an intro; every video live. The topic the HS Physics format was built on and approved for rollout (13 Oct 2026, after review with David and Matthew). James on the topic page: "overall, this was great. 8/10, maybe even 9."
Topic 11: Sound
Intro and five lessons re-rendered 19–21 Oct in the clean style James approved ("the best videos", 19 Oct), plus the summary; every slot plays. Rulings from his 29 Sep physics review applied.
Topic 18: Rocks
Six videos live, including the sedimentary-rock lesson James praised on 9 Oct; summary condensed to one video on 14 Oct.
Unit 1 (article-led)
The rebuilt first unit, written to the golden lessons from James's 24 Oct verdict. Article-led: this is the course that shows the interactive-article format rather than video.
Topic 3.4: Photosynthesis
Fourteen lessons as videos plus questions, from "The reaction, written out" to "Shared pathways, shared ancestry"; intro and summary videos on the topic page; all 39 videos live. James, 22 Oct: "sweet".
No middle-school topic is on this tab yet: in both Middle School Chemistry and Life Science the single lessons above are signed off, but each topic still has a few videos awaiting their colour fix or render.
Prepared 26 Oct 2026. Every lesson shown went through the course's review chain: a non-author read, two key-blind readers on every question, and James's own review.