Description
PASCO Portal is the first-of-its-kind digital environment, providing instructors and lab managers with ready-to-use activities, software, and teaching content suitable for core and supplemental curriculum. PASCO Portal is a convenient and flexible online platform that hosts your teaching resources and continuous professional development to facilitate all-inclusive instruction for science, STEM, and engineering programs.
Core Curriculum
Developed by our team of educators, scientists, and curriculum developers, PASCO’s Essential Physics and Essential Chemistry curriculum solutions provide e-Books, lab manuals, equipment kits, animations, videos, interactive equations and simulations, and more tools to increase student engagement and understanding. PASCO’s Essential Science curriculum solutions are available by subscription on PASCO Portal.
Experiment Library
PASCO Portal offers a wealth of content, from K-12 activities to higher education investigations. Designed around PASCO’s award-winning sensors, equipment, and data collection systems, each PASCO experiment has student and teacher files in common formats for posting, sharing, and downloading. PASCO Portal improves security measures, so you know your answer keys are safe. Mark experiments as favorites and build your own collection in Portal’s dynamic dashboard.
PASCO Academy
PASCO Portal features PASCO Academy, a digital multimedia resource for science instruction and enrichment of learning environments. Covering 25 topics in the Physics module, 25 topics in the Chemistry module, and 13 topics in the Biology module, PASCO Academy provides teacher preparation videos, lab activity demonstration and data collection videos, student follow-up videos, lab handouts, SPARKvue files with recorded data, answer keys, and more.
OpenSciEd
PASCO is proud to be partnering with OpenSciEd to bring NGSS-aligned science lessons and hands-on activities into K-12 classrooms. Highly accredited with a ‘green’ rating from EdReports, OpenSciEd curriculum extends beyond traditional lessons to foster investigative and collaborative student learning.
Professional Development
Earn certificates through PASCO Portal’s professional development modules, designed to enhance your knowledge and hone your skills in applying PASCO’s hands-on science and STEM solutions to your lab. Complete these trainings at your own pace with on-demand pre-recorded videos. Gain access to a curated collection of helpful tutorial videos.
Online & Live Support
Your success manager will make sure you and your fellow institution faculty have the best possible experience integrating PASCO Portal into your teaching toolboxes. Get toll-free phone, email, and live chat support for PASCO Portal. Easily look up product help and technical manuals through PASCO Portal.
PASCO’s Award-Winning Software
PASCO Capstone™ is the ideal software for higher education and advanced physics investigations, because it can handle large data sets and high-speed sampling.
Spectrometry software supports physics, chemistry, and biology lab topics like emission spectra, absorbance spectra, Beer’s law, and kinetics experiments.
MatchGraph! software allows students to investigate beginner position and velocity concepts using motion sensors and Smart Carts.
SPARKvue makes data collection, analysis, and sharing quick and easy for all sciences and grade levels. This versatile software is accessible on all platforms and computing devices.
Chemvue is a comprehensive platform for running and analyzing experiments in all chemistry disciplines. Pair your desired PASCO chemistry sensor and Chemvue smartly auto-configures a display module to match the data type.
We don’t collect student data!
Your students’ data stays private and secure within your LMS. PASCO Portal supports only administrator and instructor accounts. Our LMS compatibility eliminates any need for individual student accounts. Teachers distribute Portal learning content to students directly through their LMS. Enjoy freedom from the hassle of student password management!
PASCO Portal is wrapped in modern technology, compatible with any Learning Management Systems (LMS’s) that have been 1EdTech-certified, including Google Classroom, Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard, and Schoology. It also supports authentication with Single Sign-On (SSO) through Google, ClassLink, and Clever. If your institution’s 1EdTech-certified LMS is not listed, contact us to initiate a new integration.