Proteus Labs is the largest single content catalogue reviewed across the five STEM partners so far by lab count: roughly 75 individually documented mixed-reality science labs organised into 12 categories.
Orientation & Lab Skills (Tutorials — 5 modules)
Before any subject-specific lab, students complete short tutorials that teach the mixed-reality lab environment itself: reading a virtual balance, taking volume measurements, and following laboratory safety and instrument-identification procedures. These are explicitly mapped to engineering-practice standards (planning and carrying out investigations) rather than to a single content area, since their purpose is procedural fluency before the content-specific labs begin.
This is the largest single subject area. Students identify and separate substances by their physical properties (density, melting/boiling point, filtration, distillation); prepare, dilute, and analyse solutions; explore acid-base behaviour through pH measurement, indicators, and multiple titration exercises; investigate gas laws (pressure–volume, temperature–volume, solubility–temperature relationships); study reaction kinetics and thermodynamics (reaction rate, surface area, concentration, Hess's Law, endothermic/exothermic reactions, specific heat capacity); examine qualitative chemical equilibrium and Le Chatelier's Principle; and carry out electrochemistry labs (water electrolysis, conductivity). Nearly every lab in this group maps to the NGSS "HS-PS1 Matter and Its Interactions" or "HS-PS3 Energy" core ideas.
Biology (12 modules)
Biology labs span cell-level and organism-level investigation: centrifugation, blood typing, observation of animal and plant cells, DNA extraction from plant material, seed germination, and analysis of stool and saliva samples (linked to digestion/enzyme function). A river-water chemistry lab connects ecosystem health to human impact. Three further labs — Köhler illumination, focusing a microscope, and river-water observation — are listed but marked as not yet live (TBD 2026), extending the microscopy strand once released.
Physics — Electricity (9 modules)
Students build and read basic circuits (resistors, series and parallel circuit assembly, current/brightness relationships, Kirchhoff's law), and investigate static electricity, magnetic fields, solenoids, and energy efficiency — grounding electrical-energy and force-field NGSS core ideas in hands-on circuit-building that would otherwise require a physical electronics kit.
Physics — Mechanics (10 modules)
These labs cover force, motion, and energy: effective/resultant force, constant acceleration, spring deformation and restoring force, mechanical energy of a moving object, kinetic energy, rolling motion on inclined ramps, and two applied-mechanics labs (operating a hoist; mechanical advantage in theatre stage design.
Full Module List
Tutorials (5)
Module
001 – Balance Tutorial
002 – Introduction Tutorial
003 – Volume Tutorial
034 – Introduction to laboratory safety
042 – Introduction to laboratory instruments
Chemical and Physical Properties (13)
Module
004 – Osmosis
005 – Identification of elements through bright flames
006 – Gas Identification
007 – Separation of Solid and Liquid Products
008 – Product separation using boiling point 1
009 – Product separation using boiling point 2
010 – Melting point and density
011 – Density
012 – Physical properties and identification of products
013 – Nutrients
014 – Heavy metal extraction
015 – Metal properties
016 – The law of conservation of mass
Biology (12)
Module
021 – Centrifugation
023 – Blood and blood groups
024 – Observation of animal cells
025 – Observation of plant cells
026 – Vegetal DNA
027 – Germination
028 – Analysis of stools
029 – Observation of saliva
030 – Chemistry of river water
031 – Köhler illumination (TBD 2026 — not yet live)
032 – Focusing microscope (TBD 2026 — not yet live)
033 – Observation of river water (TBD 2026 — not yet live)
Solutions (5)
Module
038 – Preparation of solution by dissolution
039 – Changing the solubility of a solid
040 – Precipitation
041 – Preparation of a solution
043 – Dilutions
Acids & Bases (7)
Module
046 – pH
047 – Acid-base titration 1
048 – The pH of strong and weak acids
049 – Using pH indicators
050 – Conductivity and pH
051 – Stoichiometry
052 – Acid-base titration 2
Gases (5)
Module
053 – The pressure of gases
054 – Relationship between volume and pressure of a gas 1
055 – Relationship between volume and pressure of a gas 2
056 – Relationship between a gas's temperature and its volume
057 – Relationship between gas solubility and temperature
Kinetics and Thermodynamics (9)
Module
059 – Reaction rate and enthalpy
060 – Reaction rate between molecules
061 – Influence of contact surface on reaction rate 1
062 – Influence of contact surface on reaction rate 2
063 – Influence of concentration on reaction rate 1
064 – Influence of concentration on reaction rate 2
065 – Hess's Law
066 – Endothermic & exothermic reactions
067 – Specific heat capacity
Chemical Equilibrium (2)
Module
070 – The qualitative aspect of chemical equilibrium
071 – Le Chatelier's Principle
Electrochemistry (2)
Module
072 – Water electrolysis
073 – Conductivity
Electricity (9)
Module
074 – Reading a resistor
075 – Electrical circuit assembly
076 – Assembling an electrical circuit in parallel
077 – Impact of current on the brightness of a lamp
078 – Static electricity
079 – Magnetic fields
080 – Solenoids
081 – Energy efficiency
110 – Kirchhoff law
Mechanical Physics (10)
Module
082 – Effective force
083 – The mechanical energy of a moving object
084 – Constant acceleration
085 – Relationship between spring deformation and the restoring force it exerts
086 – The operation of a hoist
087 – Mechanical advantage in theater stage design
088 – Relationship between resultant force and acceleration
