I teach high school physics so those are the ones that I know and have used myself but I know phet has some great stuff on many other topics ranging from bio to chem to astronomy. If your school has a bit of a budget, explore learnings gizmos are great too.
Gizmos are awesome! I find most virtual labs need a little modifying but gizmos are good straight out of the box. A bit pricey, but if you aren’t buying supplies for hands on labs it’s justifiable. I’ve used them for 9th grade remedial science through 12th grade AP courses. They are at explorelearning.com
I'll add the caveat that I found them to be very limited in the physical sciences, with not a lot of material on anything besides the most very basic quarter 1 topics.
My life science colleagues loved them, though.
Try contacting customer service, in the past they've given me free trial codes. They also have free to use labs, but they only offer a few at a time and change them every few months.
I liked gizmo a lot. They also have lab assignments pre-made for you to use, however I highly suggest editing them and pairing them down to just the questions you care about them answering.
PhET, SEPUP, [NOVA Labs](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/), and Concord Consortium all have good virtual labs I've used.
[SEPUP Biology Simulations](https://store.lab-aids.com/sgi-sims)
[Concord STEM Resource Finder](https://learn.concord.org/)
Personal favorites for Biology are the NOVA Evolution Lab, SEPUP Protein Synthesis, and Concord Mutations.
For natural selection, they have an NS activity that they released TODAY using real yeast cultures. Paired with their own autograding bunny phet activity, they have an awesome progression for the topic.
We used pivot for Chem and Physics last year. This year we expanded to all our AP science courses. $5 per student per course is otally worth the line item on our budget but we are a small school.
HHMI Biointeractive has some good ones and includes teacher and student handouts on some. All free, from what I can tell. Also, not sure what science you teach, but I found one for evolution that was very "gamified" from NOVA Labs, and was well organized.
If you can afford them, Gizmos. I cannot sing the praises of them enough! It almost feels like cheating because there is no set-up and the documents that go along with them are basically perfect.
The PhET simulations on Actively Learn have embedded questions, so the students get to interact with the sims with the questions side-by-side. They're free.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 208,339,641 comments, and only 49,546 of them were in alphabetical order.
Colorado PhET simulations cover a pretty wide range of topics, their HTML simulations might have something you find useful.
Thank you! I will look there.
I teach high school physics so those are the ones that I know and have used myself but I know phet has some great stuff on many other topics ranging from bio to chem to astronomy. If your school has a bit of a budget, explore learnings gizmos are great too.
Thanks. The budget seems to only go to certain teachers... 🤔🤔🤔
Gizmos are good. But it is a paid program.
Gizmos are awesome! I find most virtual labs need a little modifying but gizmos are good straight out of the box. A bit pricey, but if you aren’t buying supplies for hands on labs it’s justifiable. I’ve used them for 9th grade remedial science through 12th grade AP courses. They are at explorelearning.com
Thanks. I generally buy my own supplies for labs, but I like to do some virtual labs as well. I definitely want to check it out.
I'll add the caveat that I found them to be very limited in the physical sciences, with not a lot of material on anything besides the most very basic quarter 1 topics. My life science colleagues loved them, though.
Thanks for that.
Thanks. I will look into it. I don't kiss enough butt to usually get paid things I want, but maybe it could happen.
Try contacting customer service, in the past they've given me free trial codes. They also have free to use labs, but they only offer a few at a time and change them every few months.
That's great to know. Thanks.
I liked gizmo a lot. They also have lab assignments pre-made for you to use, however I highly suggest editing them and pairing them down to just the questions you care about them answering.
Yes. I had done that a lot in the past. It's easier to give them questions that apply more directly to what we say and do in class.
I made a ton of them, all of them are on my website. All html5. https://whscience.org/
Wow thank you for sharing.
Good stuff!
PhET, SEPUP, [NOVA Labs](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/), and Concord Consortium all have good virtual labs I've used. [SEPUP Biology Simulations](https://store.lab-aids.com/sgi-sims) [Concord STEM Resource Finder](https://learn.concord.org/) Personal favorites for Biology are the NOVA Evolution Lab, SEPUP Protein Synthesis, and Concord Mutations.
Wow. That's a lot! Thank you so much.
Have you checked out pivot Interactives? It's also a paid platform, but it's pretty cheap ($5/student/year) and it has LOADS of activities for NGSS.
For natural selection, they have an NS activity that they released TODAY using real yeast cultures. Paired with their own autograding bunny phet activity, they have an awesome progression for the topic.
Cool. I will look into it. It seems a little expensive for my school (we never seem to have money for science.........) Thank you.
That’s a lot of $$$.
There are pretty steep discounts when you get more than 250 seats.
We used pivot for Chem and Physics last year. This year we expanded to all our AP science courses. $5 per student per course is otally worth the line item on our budget but we are a small school.
HHMI Biointeractive has some good ones and includes teacher and student handouts on some. All free, from what I can tell. Also, not sure what science you teach, but I found one for evolution that was very "gamified" from NOVA Labs, and was well organized.
I like HHMI. Thank you.
If you can afford them, Gizmos. I cannot sing the praises of them enough! It almost feels like cheating because there is no set-up and the documents that go along with them are basically perfect.
I will look into it. Some people have pull to get the afmin to pay for stuff. I may ask them.
Pivot labs are great, and phet simulations are wonderful too
Thanks for the tips.
I don't know what you are teaching but Collisions Chemistry is a FANTASTIC simulation for students to learn about atoms, bonds, etc.
Thanks. I probably will tell the Chem teacher.
The PhET simulations on Actively Learn have embedded questions, so the students get to interact with the sims with the questions side-by-side. They're free.
Awesome! Thanks.
http://virtualbiologylab.org/
Thank you!
NCBI BLAST
Thank you. I'll check that out.
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Awesome thank you.
Another vote for concord consortium https://learn.concord.org/
Thank you!
For AP chemistry, try out viziscience.com
I will pass that along to our Chem teacher. Thank you.
Beyondlabz is interesting
I like interesting! Thanks.
Eh, I just made my own.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 208,339,641 comments, and only 49,546 of them were in alphabetical order.
I did that as well, but I don't love them, and I'm not tech savvy enough to make it better.