Everything in the box
Science Teacher Helper is a drawing library that lives inside Microsoft Word. It answers one question - "how do I get a correct circuit, a labelled apparatus diagram or a clean graph into this worksheet without drawing it by hand?" - and it answers it 889 times over.
- 889 drawings
- 6 libraries
- 6 calculators
- Editable vectors
- Offline
- Windows, Mac, web
The libraries
Six shelves, each with its own categories. Names are English and every drawing carries
keywords, so lens, burette, NPN or sine all find
what you meant.
| Library | Drawings | What people use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Calculators | 6 | Area, Volume |
| Chemistry | 138 | Case and canal, Experiment set, Measure, Other |
| Electronics | 260 | Basic, Communication, Logic gate, Connects, Switch relay, Transformer coil, Tube semiconductor |
| Mathematics | 130 | Algebra, Geometry |
| Physics | 265 | Basic, Calorific, Electricity, Experiment, Mechanics, Optics |
| Symbols | 90 | Common symbols, Phonetic |
Numbers are counted from the shipped catalogue at build time, not typed into this page.
Finding a drawing
Search that filters as you type
One box over the whole library. Type capac and the grid narrows to capacitors; type a
subject or a category name and it narrows that way too. No menus to memorise.
Browse by subject and category
When you do not know the name, walk the shelves: Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Mathematics, Symbols and Calculators, each opening into categories like Optics, Glassware or Logic gates.
Preview before you insert
The picture in the pane is the drawing itself, at the size you will get. If it is not the one you meant, the next is one click away - and the insert is one undo away.
Inserting and editing
Editable vector shapes, not pictures
A drawing arrives as Word shapes: outlines, lines and text you can select individually. Recolour one arrow of a circuit, delete a label you do not need, or copy a resistor out of a circuit and into the next question. Because it is native Word content, it prints crisply at any size and stays sharp in a PDF.
One click, one undo
The whole insert is a single undo step. If the drawing is not what you wanted, Ctrl+Z removes it cleanly instead of leaving half a diagram behind.
Names that do not collide
Insert the same figure twice in one document and Word keeps both - the product makes sure the second copy does not silently overwrite the first, and drawings land at the cursor rather than in some forgotten corner of the page.
Alt text and printing
Every drawing carries a description, so a screen reader can announce it and an automated check can tell that the figure is really there. Nothing depends on colour alone, which keeps photocopies and colour-blind readers in mind.
The calculators
Science lessons are full of "work out the value and write it down". The 6 calculators do the arithmetic and let you put the result on the page as a drawing - so the working, the formula and the answer are all visible to the class, and none of it is a black box.
Enter the numbers
Choose a calculator, fill in the quantities you know, and the drawing updates as you type.
Read the working
The formula and the substituted values are part of the drawing, so the method is on the page for the class to check - not hidden inside a cell.
Insert the result
The finished calculation goes into the document as editable shapes, exactly like any other drawing in the library.
What it needs, and what it does not
Needs
- Microsoft Word - see the version table for the exact builds
- A computer you are allowed to install on (or an administrator who deploys for you)
- For the desktop template: nothing at all while it runs
Does not need
- No subscription and no monthly payment
- No internet connection in class - the whole library travels inside the template
- No LaTeX, no drawing tablet, no separate editor
- No changes to your documents' format - the drawings are ordinary Word content
Accessibility and privacy. Drawings carry alt text, and the pane works from the keyboard. Your documents stay on the computer. The optional licence service runs at www.helpsciencer.com and keeps only the licence key issued for an order, together with the email address that order was placed with; payments are handled by Waffo (the merchant of record), which also receives your email address for receipts.
Try the whole library for 7 days
Install it, search for what you teach this week, and judge it on your own worksheets.