Hands-on science for international schools in Indonesia
Printable lessons in English, built from everyday materials. No apps, no student accounts, nothing to install.
Curricula we map
Many international schools in Indonesia follow the IB Primary Years Programme or Cambridge Primary; Fieldbook maps to both, and to an American curriculum.
Every unit names the outcomes it teaches. Pick the curriculum your school follows.
- IB Primary Years Programme: Units as ready-made inquiries.
- Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary: Units mapped to your stage objectives.
- British international schools: Units matched to English National Curriculum year groups.
- American international schools: NGSS, AERO and Common Core outcomes on every unit.
Not sure which fits? See all places and curricula, or ask us in the form below.
Units that work in a warm climate
No lesson in these units needs snow, frost or freezing weather.
- Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From
- Evidence Lab
- Data Detectives
- Kitchen Chemistry
- Plants and Seeds: What Does a Seed Need?
- Sound: Can You See a Sound?
- Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape
- Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up
- Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers
- Cells: The Smallest Living Things
- Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better
- Sun, Earth and Moon
- How Your Body Works
- Test It, Choose It: Materials
- Who Lives Here?
- Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating
- Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling
- Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour
- Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants
- The Reason for the Seasons: Tilt, Daylight and the Solstice
- Stars and the Night Sky
- Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method
- Who Eats What? Food Chains and Helpers
- Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact
- The Solar System: Gravity, Orbits and Scale
- Fence It, Fill It: Area and Perimeter
- Fair Shares: Fractions and Decimals
- Below Zero: Integers in the Real World
- Mix It, Pace It: Ratio, Rate and Percent
- Is It Fair? Chance and Probability
- Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong
- Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá
- Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam
Find your year group
Our units are labelled by US grade. Use the row that matches your students' age at the start of the school year.
| Age | US grade | English year | Cambridge | IB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–6 | Kindergarten | Year 1 | Primary Stage 1 | PYP |
| 6–7 | Grade 1 | Year 2 | Primary Stage 2 | PYP |
| 7–8 | Grade 2 | Year 3 | Primary Stage 3 | PYP |
| 8–9 | Grade 3 | Year 4 | Primary Stage 4 | PYP |
| 9–10 | Grade 4 | Year 5 | Primary Stage 5 | PYP |
| 10–11 | Grade 5 | Year 6 | Primary Stage 6 | PYP (exhibition year) |
| 11–12 | Grade 6 | Year 7 | Lower Secondary Stage 7 | MYP 1 |
| 12–13 | Grade 7 | Year 8 | Lower Secondary Stage 8 | MYP 2 |
| 13–14 | Grade 8 | Year 9 | Lower Secondary Stage 9 | MYP 3 |
Entry ages differ a little between schools; your curriculum coordinator will know where your classes sit. Read a complete sample lesson with no sign-in.
Buying from Indonesia
School licence: US$899 per school, per year. Every lesson and every unit workbook for up to 40 named teachers.
Small team: US$329 per year for up to 5 teachers.
Pay by card in US dollars, at checkout or from an invoice we email you. Ask for a pro-forma invoice if your school needs one first. We accept purchase orders. We can't take bank transfers from outside Canada yet.
Invoices come from ZalaStack Inc., a Canadian corporation. We charge no Canadian tax on licences supplied outside Canada. Reverse-charge VAT or withholding tax, where it applies, is accounted for by the buyer.
Our supplier sheet, licence agreement, data protection terms and safeguarding statement are on purchasing and compliance.
Ask for a quote or pro-forma invoice
Questions from international schools
Do you sell to schools outside North America?
Yes. The lessons are PDFs, so there is nothing to ship. Pay by card in US dollars, at checkout or from an invoice we email you (ask for a pro-forma invoice if your school needs one first). We can't take bank transfers from outside Canada yet. Invoices come from ZalaStack Inc., a Canadian company, and we accept purchase orders.
Is any tax added to the invoice?
No Canadian tax is added for schools outside Canada. If your country taxes imported services, for example VAT by reverse charge or a withholding tax, your finance office handles it the usual way.
We teach the British or Cambridge curriculum. Which units fit our Year 5?
Year 5 and Cambridge Primary Stage 5 are the same age as US Grade 4 (ages 9 to 10), so start with our Grade 4 units. The table on the International schools page lists every year group, and we map units to Cambridge stage objectives on request.
Does Fieldbook work in an IB PYP school?
Yes, as the science inside a unit of inquiry. Every unit starts from a real question students can test, and the International schools page shows which transdisciplinary theme each unit usually fits.
Our school is in a hot country. Do the lessons still work?
Almost all of them. Materials are everyday items, measured in metric. The two winter units need snow or a freezer, and a few lessons open with a Canadian example such as winter weather; teachers swap in a local example or skip those.