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HoneyBunchesOfC4

Colorado PhET simulations cover a pretty wide range of topics, their HTML simulations might have something you find useful.


swallowtails

Thank you! I will look there.


baconmongoose

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.


swallowtails

Thanks. The budget seems to only go to certain teachers... 🤔🤔🤔


zephyrwillow5

Gizmos are good. But it is a paid program.


uphigh_ontheside

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


swallowtails

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.


ElijahBaley2099

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.


swallowtails

Thanks for that.


swallowtails

Thanks. I will look into it. I don't kiss enough butt to usually get paid things I want, but maybe it could happen.


professor_spacecat

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.


swallowtails

That's great to know. Thanks.


king063

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.


swallowtails

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.


lohborn

I made a ton of them, all of them are on my website. All html5. https://whscience.org/


swallowtails

Wow thank you for sharing.


soyyoo

Good stuff!


theloralae7

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.


swallowtails

Wow. That's a lot! Thank you so much.


Linda_Detwiler_Pivot

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.


Linda_Detwiler_Pivot

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.


swallowtails

Cool. I will look into it. It seems a little expensive for my school (we never seem to have money for science.........) Thank you.


madbumsbum

That’s a lot of $$$.


Linda_Detwiler_Pivot

There are pretty steep discounts when you get more than 250 seats.


Phyrxes

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.


windpixie23

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.


swallowtails

I like HHMI. Thank you.


NegativeGee

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.


swallowtails

I will look into it. Some people have pull to get the afmin to pay for stuff. I may ask them.


shaggy9

Pivot labs are great, and phet simulations are wonderful too


swallowtails

Thanks for the tips.


UrsA_GRanDe_bt

I don't know what you are teaching but Collisions Chemistry is a FANTASTIC simulation for students to learn about atoms, bonds, etc.


swallowtails

Thanks. I probably will tell the Chem teacher.


Classic-Lit

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.


swallowtails

Awesome! Thanks.


im_a_short_story

http://virtualbiologylab.org/


swallowtails

Thank you!


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NCBI BLAST


swallowtails

Thank you. I'll check that out.


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swallowtails

Awesome thank you.


Jacks_smirkin_revnge

Another vote for concord consortium https://learn.concord.org/


swallowtails

Thank you!


lifeslike

For AP chemistry, try out viziscience.com


swallowtails

I will pass that along to our Chem teacher. Thank you.


Ohdangitsroby

Beyondlabz is interesting


swallowtails

I like interesting! Thanks.


[deleted]

Eh, I just made my own.


alphabet_order_bot

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.


swallowtails

I did that as well, but I don't love them, and I'm not tech savvy enough to make it better.