Conceptual Academy

for Mississippi

CURRICULUM, POWERED BY POCKETLAB | MYRIAD SENSORS INC.

Conceptual Academy and PocketLab by Myriad Sensors Inc. have partnered to bring Paul Hewitt’s seminal textbook into an integrated digital experience for Mississippi classrooms. Conceptual Academy Physics is offered along with Chemistry, Biology, Physical Science, Earth Science, and Foundations of Biology for a complete high school solution that has been reviewed and added to the 2025/2026 science materials adoption by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Why Conceptual Academy?

Built for Mississippi Students

Pioneering physics educator Paul Hewitt and his colleagues have reimagined their classic textbooks to bring hands-on inquiry, phenomena-based learning, and science and engineering practices to Mississippi high schools. The result is the best of both worlds- trusted content that has taught millions of students, now updated with modern pedagogy and fully aligned to the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science (MS-CCRS).

These high quality instructional materials enable both a 5E model of teaching and the conceptually-based experiential learning approach Paul Hewitt pioneered.

Built on Paul Hewitt's Legacy

Inspired teacher and professor, Paul Hewitt, revolutionized teaching physics, making it more accessible and engaging. He wrote textbooks and created video and cartoon resources that focused on the conceptual understanding of the topic. Hewitt helped students connect science to their own lives and his approach to teaching has been widely adopted by schools around the world.

The Best Digital Platform

More than a great place to collect and visualize data, PocketLab’s web app, Notebook, is where all things science come together for today’s classroom. In addition to Conceptual Academy, thousands of interactive lessons and supplemental materials, written by highly regarded researchers, teachers, and scientists, await! Time-saving AI tools help teachers grade, translate, and differentiate content with a click of a mouse.

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Modern Classroom Tools

PocketLab multi-function wireless sensors have been used in schools all over the world. Student-led hands-on inquiry activities that feature authentic data collection will spark curiosity and creativity in your classroom. Your students' real-time data is live-streamed directly in their lesson making the curriculum come alive. Lesson data collection has NEVER been easier.

Science curriculum for Mississippi Classrooms

By Hewitt, Suchocki, and Yeh.

Together, PocketLab and Conceptual Academy have built an all-in-one, flexible solution for Mississippi teachers that combines high school science curricula, video content, hands-on labs and lessons, and a digital lab notebook where students engage with content in meaningful ways.

Easier than ever. Access curriculum, assign hands-on labs, and monitor student progress toward key learning objectives from one browser-based digital platform
Designed for Mississippi teachers. Built from the ground up with Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards in mind. And reviewed and added to the 2025 science materials adoption by the Mississippi Department of Education.
Customizable for you to teach it the way you want to teach it. Edit, reorganize, and modify chapters, or choose from our library of supplemental lessons, which puts you in control of your lesson plan.
Created by experts. Written by Paul Hewitt, John Suchocki and Jennifer Yeh with universal design for learning (and teaching) in mind.
Designed for flexibility. Supplement the digital content with Conceptual Academy's optional companion printed textbooks as an aid in lesson planning and for student use.
Mix it up. Add in content from our extensive library of supplemental labs you can mix into your regular curriculum, including many from our amazing partners, such as the Amoeba Sisters (Included with Conceptual Biology), PhET interactive simulations, X-STEM all access and so many more.

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