🎓

Free Animated Education Diagrams

Learning science, pedagogy, assessment. The science of how we learn.

27 live For: Educators · Learning-science writers · EdTech · Tutoring/test prep

For educators, learning-science writers, and EdTech content marketers. Visualize spaced repetition, the forgetting curve, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the zone of proximal development, cognitive load theory, Bloom's taxonomy, and the Feynman technique.

What this is: Free, embeddable, animated diagrams covering education topics (learning science, pedagogy, assessment).
Who uses it: Educators · Learning-science writers · EdTech · Tutoring/test prep
How to embed: Copy one line of HTML per diagram. No signup. No watermark. Works in WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Substack, plain HTML.
Diagrams in this category: 27 live (total in catalog: 27).
License: Free forever. The diagram and editorial explainer text are served from scrollchart.com so they can be updated over time to reflect new research.
URL: scrollchart.com/categories/education

Highlights

What you will find here

Learning science: forgetting curve, spaced repetition, retrieval
Pedagogy: Bloom's taxonomy, ZPD, scaffolding
Assessment: rubrics, validity vs reliability, item analysis

Sub-categories

3 topic areas in Education

Learning science

Forgetting curve, spaced repetition, retrieval, interleaving.

10 live

Pedagogy

Bloom, ZPD, scaffolding, growth mindset, Feynman technique.

10 live

Assessment

Rubrics, validity, reliability, item analysis, IRT.

7 live

Catalog

Browse Education diagrams

All categories →

Learning science 10 live

Forgetting curve, spaced repetition, retrieval, interleaving.

Education Medium

Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve

Memory decays sharply after learning. Each review flattens the next decay curve.

Education Medium

Spaced Repetition Schedule

Review intervals expand exponentially - 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month.

Education Medium

Retrieval Practice vs Re-reading

Pulling info out beats putting info in. Testing yourself doubles long-term retention vs re-reading.

Education Medium

Interleaved vs Blocked Practice

Mixing topics is harder in the moment but produces better long-term mastery.

Education Medium

Desirable Difficulty

Some struggle during learning produces stronger memories - smoothness can be deceptive.

Education Medium

Deliberate Practice Loop

Specific goal -> push past comfort -> get feedback -> adjust. The Ericsson protocol.

Education Simple

The Feynman Technique

Explain it to a child. Gaps in your explanation reveal gaps in your understanding.

Education Simple

Learning Styles: The Evidence

Matching teaching to "visual/auditory/kinesthetic" preference does not improve outcomes.

Education Medium

Cognitive Overload in Learning

Working memory has limited capacity - too much new information at once causes encoding failure.

Education Simple

Metacognitive Monitoring

Students consistently overestimate what they know - testing reveals the gap.

Pedagogy 10 live

Bloom, ZPD, scaffolding, growth mindset, Feynman technique.

Education Simple

Bloom's Taxonomy

Six levels of cognitive complexity: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create.

Education Simple

Zone of Proximal Development

The gap between what a learner can do alone and what they can do with help.

Education Medium

Scaffolding and Fade

Heavy support early, withdrawn as competence grows - the bridge to independent performance.

Education Simple

Growth vs Fixed Mindset

Belief that ability can grow vs that it is fixed - different responses to failure follow.

Education Simple

Flipped Classroom Model

Lecture at home, practice in class. Class time goes to active problem-solving.

Education Medium

Direct Instruction vs Discovery Learning

For novices, direct instruction wins; discovery wins for advanced learners.

Education Medium

Expertise Reversal Effect

Worked examples help novices, hurt experts. The same instruction is not equally effective at every level.

Education Medium

Productive Failure

Letting students struggle before instruction can deepen learning.

Education Simple

Four Stages of Competence

Unconscious incompetence -> conscious incompetence -> conscious competence -> unconscious competence.

Education Medium

Feedback Types: Effective vs Not

Process feedback beats outcome praise. Specific beats vague. Immediate beats delayed.

Assessment 7 live

Rubrics, validity, reliability, item analysis, IRT.

Education Simple

Validity vs Reliability

Reliability is consistent results; validity is correct results. A test can have one without the other.

Education Rich

Item Response Theory (IRT)

Probability of getting an item right as a sigmoid function of student ability.

Education Simple

Rubric Design

Criteria x performance levels - how a rubric translates fuzzy quality into a defensible grade.

Education Simple

Criterion vs Norm-Referenced Tests

Criterion tests measure against a standard; norm-referenced tests rank students against each other.

Education Medium

Standard Error of Measurement

A test score is an estimate; SEM gives the band the true score is likely to lie in.

Education Medium

Computerized Adaptive Testing

Each item chosen to match the student's evolving ability estimate - shorter and more accurate.

Education Simple

Authentic vs Traditional Assessment

Real-world tasks vs multiple choice - different things measured, different validity profiles.

FAQ

Common questions about Education diagrams

Where can I get free animated education diagrams for my website?

Scrollchart is a free library of animated, embeddable diagrams. The Education section covers the most common concepts and frameworks in the field. Each diagram embeds with one line of HTML, no account required, no watermark.

How do I embed a free animated education diagram in WordPress?

Copy the embed snippet from the diagram page on Scrollchart and paste it into a custom HTML block in your WordPress editor. The diagram loads automatically and scroll-paints into view. No plugin or API key needed.

Is there a free library of animated education diagrams I can embed without coding?

Scrollchart provides ready-to-embed animated diagrams across education and 35 other categories. The embed is a single line of HTML that works in any CMS, including WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Substack, and plain HTML pages.

Do Scrollchart education diagrams include explanatory text?

Yes. Each diagram ships with a tabbed explainer panel covering what the diagram shows, the research behind it, and how to interpret it. The text is served from scrollchart.com and rendered directly in your page's DOM so it is indexed by search engines.

Don't see what you need?

Generate a custom education diagram from a prompt, or request a new template. Most ship within two weeks.

Try the AI generator Request a diagram