Our engaging, proven science intervention boosts motivation, strengthens understanding, and improves science outcomes, while making it easy on teachers and administrators. Penda offers 3-dimensional, phenomena-based activities and assessments designed for grades 3-high school and hand-crafted for NGSS, TX and FL science standards. This intuitive platform makes science accessible to all students with text translation and read-aloud tools, while rewarding students with gamification elements.
Penda fills the gaps by auto-assigning gamified activities hand-crafted to standards AND custom aligned to your organization’s instructional progression calendars. Students receive immediate feedback and support to help them build their mastery without direct instruction.
Penda's unique activities serve multiple purposes: they offer tailored support for Tier 1 instruction and provide targeted interventions for learners requiring additional assistance. Our standards-aligned assessments yield valuable insights, enabling educators to effectively steer instruction, track progress, and pinpoint interventions within Response to Intervention (RTI) or Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Educators using Penda report that their students build their knowledge faster because of Penda’s fun, gamified activities format. This sense of play and competition encourages students to practice and develop their mastery, leading to deeper learning and improved results on high-stakes tests.
Penda’s engaging, high-quality activities bring science learning to life. Each activity provides a variety of response modes—such as short answer and multi-select—to ensure all students have opportunities to succeed. With automatic scoring and the ability to retry, students can continue practicing until they achieve mastery and build lasting understanding.
Customizable avatars, leaderboards, points, challenges, and a whole-class collaborative mission make Penda both fun and effective—and research shows that engagement is key to memory, self-motivation, and educational success.
Penda’s scaffolded, differentiated science activities for grades 3–high school are hand-crafted to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Texas TEKS and Florida SASS.
Penda has created activities and assessments for high quality instruction for grades 3- high school.
Penda Learning's instructional content has been hand-crafted for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). With activities and assessments available for every performance expectation from grades 3 through high school, Penda ensures comprehensive coverage of NGSS performance expectations. Each activity is phenomena-based and embraces a three-dimensional learning approach, integrating Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs), Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs), and Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs). Activities are thoughtfully designed using NGSS evidence statements to provide meaningful and measurable learning experiences. Penda offers a full suite of formative and summative assessments, as well as customizable reports that provide insight at all levels for usage, mastery and more.
Penda has carefully crafted three differentiated scaffolded activities for every Florida SASS standard from grades 3- high school biology. Teachers have access to over 100 simulations to use in-class to engage and explore topics as part of the 5E instructional model to support inquiry.
Penda Learning's instructional content has been hand-crafted for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). With activities and assessments available for every performance expectation from grades 3 through high school, Penda ensures comprehensive coverage of NGSS performance expectations. Each activity is phenomena-based and embraces a three-dimensional learning approach, integrating Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs), Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs), and Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs). Activities are thoughtfully designed using NGSS evidence statements to provide meaningful and measurable learning experiences. Penda offers a full suite of formative and summative assessments, as well as customizable reports that provide insight at all levels for usage, mastery and more.
Penda Learning has been hand-crafted for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards for grades 3 through Biology. Each activity and assessment is meticulously crafted to address the TEKS, along with the Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) and the Recurring Themes and Concepts (RTCs) associated with each question. Every activity is phenomena-based and incorporates a three-dimensional learning approach, starting with a clear "I can" statement to guide students' learning objectives. Penda provides hundreds of engaging activities that feature a variety of question formats, including fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, multiple-select, and short-answer, helping students build confidence and familiarity with diverse question styles. A full suite of formative and summative assessments have also been developed, including STAAR test prep assessments for each grade band tested, and finally a suite of customizable reports from district to classroom details on usage, mastery, gradebook and more.
Whether they're science wizzes or need extra support, Penda automates differentiated instruction for teachers, auto-assigning activities based on mastery and providing students with opportunities to review and practice concepts they’re struggling with. Integration with Immersive Reader, a Microsoft Learning tool, makes Penda’s science activities accessible to all learners, including English learners as well as students with word-reading difficulties like dyslexia.
Penda provides a full suite of assessments including check-for-understanding mini assessments, grade level/course assessments, high stakes prep and a dedicated NGSS content set for each performance expectation. Comprehensive, customizable reports offer class, school and district insights, as well as the ability to drill down to individual student achievement for targeting instruction and monitoring progress.
Independent research confirms what educators see every day in their classrooms: Penda works. Studies show that students using Penda achieve higher science scores than their peers, with notable gains across diverse student populations. By combining engagement with rigor, Penda drives real, lasting improvements in science learning.
Implementing Penda is simple with single sign-on and automated rostering. But support doesn’t stop there. We offer continuous professional development and a video library so teachers always have help at their fingertips. Whether it’s on- boarding, technical aid, or pedagogical guidance, we’re ready to assist anytime, anywhere. With Penda, you’re supported at every step on the journey to better science learning.
