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Free high school science simulations
Explore the Circulatory System
The heart holds many mysteries. Connect the dots to uncover one of them: how much blood flows through its chambers.
In the lungs, what waste product does deoxygenated blood exchange for more oxygen?
What happens to the oxygen in blood when it leaves the heart?
Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):
K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimi
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K - 9th
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Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Stations {FREE}
These stations will keep your students MOVING! Designed to fit in one class period, your students will build on what they have been taught in the classroom concerning weathering, erosion, and deposition. This is a great way to reinforce material in your Earth Science classroom, or a great way to review for state standards assessments. You can opt to use these activities as stations and simply use them as labs or activities to enhance what you already have planned in the classroom. This bundle in
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4th - 9th
Eclipse - Solar and Lunar – A Digital, Device-Based Scavenger Hunt Activity
Eclipse - Solar and Lunar - A Digital, Device-Based resource that will get your kids out of their seats, engaged, utilizing technology, and collaborating to solve real problems and test their knowledge.This activity is the coolest thing I've created and your kids are going to love it, mine do. Think of a scavenger hunt, then add devices (Smartphones, Chromebooks, Laptops, or Tablets), engaged students, and learning through assessment and you have this resource.I've created a video that walks you
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6th - 9th, Staff
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Also included in: Space Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Digital Science Activities
Alaskan Earthquake Epicenter Location Activity (November 30, 2018)
In this activity students will analyze seismograms from three seismic stations in Alaska. They will use the difference in arrivals times of the primary and secondary waves with a travel time curve to determine the distance from the epicenter to the seismic stations. Using the epicenter distance and a drawing compass student can triangulate the location of the November 30th, 2018 Alaskan earthquake.For information about how to read a seismogram, I suggest having students read this website: http:/
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5th - 10th
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Waves Virtual Escape Room + Google Form: NO PREP
You've Been Abducted by Aliens!A Mechanical Waves Escape Room + Google Form Activity and QuizClick here to try it out for yourself! Please test this at your school before purchasing...just to make sure your school doesn't block the interactive.How it works:The teacher provides every student the Google Form link and assigns each student either version A, B, C, or D. (Each version is the same except for the code word provided at the end).Students select their assigned version in the Google Form. T
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6th - 10th
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Eco Footprint Natural Resource Simulation | Human World Geography
Open your students' eyes (and ears!) to the vastly different eco footprints across the planet as they witness the consumption levels of citizens from various nations with this FREE activity. This print-and-go lesson is the perfect way to kick-off off your exploration of this very real topic in your Human Geography, Contemporary World Problems, Environmental Science, or Ecology course!All you need to add are some popcorn kernels! Greatness is creating a meaningful understanding out of abstract nu
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7th - 12th
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Acid/Base Webquest to accompany pHet website
This is a basic worksheet that introduces the concept of pH scale to accompany the pHet pH scale website. https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/ph-scale This worksheet walks students through the basics of the pH scale and the beginnings of neutralization reactions. Also includes a short reading that allows students to take independent notes about Acids and Bases.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Physical Science Testing Review Bundle
Genetic Mutations - Scrabble Challenge
This activity allows students to simulate a variety of mutations using something they are already familiar with - sentences. Students will begin by building a short sentence (using only 3-letter words to represent codons) out of scrabble tiles. Next, they perform the specified mutation by manipulating the tiles. Finally, they must create their own sentences and apply mutations.
It is a terrific activity to help students understand how a single change can affect a whole sequence or reading fr
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8th - 11th
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PhET: Building an Atom - Inquiry Virtual Lab for Atomic Structure
This handout guides students through the virtual lab "Building an Atom" simulation found for free at phet.colorado.edu. This activity works well as the "explore" phase of the 5e model for a unit on atomic structure or as a quick review for students who have learned atomic structure before.This is an inquiry-based approach to the simulation, where students are directed to play around and determine which subatomic particles (protons, neutrons, and electrons) affect the mass, charge, and name of a
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7th - 12th
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Forensics Virtual Escape Room - Fiber Evidence Google Form
This is a digital escape room on Google Forms that is completely paperless! This is a great way to review concepts presented as part of fiber analysis. If you use Forensic Science Fundamentals & Investigations by Bertino and Bertino, this is a great review for chapter 4.If you like this resource, be sure to check out my Hair Evidence Virtual Escape Room.
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9th - 12th
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Carbon Cycle Interactive: SELF-GRADING + NO PREP
This Carbon Cycle Interactive takes students on a trip through time starting with Cool Guy Carbon as part of a glucose molecule inside a fern 200 million years ago. Cool Guy Carbon participates in digestion, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and combustion as part of glucose, carbon dioxide, and an oil molecule.Click here to try a test version of the entire activity for yourself.Please test this at your school before purchasing... just to make sure your school doesn't block the interactive.
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6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS1-6
Inheritance Patterns in the Kolo Genetics Activity - FREE RESOURCE
In this genetics activity, students will discover the variety of offspring that can come from one set of heterozygous Kolo parents. Kolos are cute little creatures that are rumored to live behind Rainbow Falls on the Big Island of Hawaii. In fact, Kolo means “to creep or crawl” in Hawaiian. All Kolos are very happy, but they have a few characteristics that vary from one Kolo to the next. Students will simulate inheritance principles as they determine the traits of their own unique Kolo, and then
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6th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
Free Phases of the Moon Activity Worksheet (with Solutions)
Hello! Here is a Phases of the Moon Activity, where students act out the phases of the moon at home. Its intended to go along with the video explaining the phases on YouTube here.There are some extension questions at the end. Its a great activity for students to do at home during online learning.Thanks for checking out my page! Please leave a review if you download and like the resource :)
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6th - 10th
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Population Ecology Virtual Lab
This virtual lab activity will allow students to study population growth through a simulation activity. Using an online Glencoe virtual lab, students will conduct an experiment in which they grow two species of the protozoan Paramecium, alone and mixed together [Please Note: online virtual lab requires Flash]. They will collect data to compare the growth curves and analyze their results. The lab handout contains everything students will need to run this simulation lab, and includes questions tha
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7th - 12th
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ATOMS: Interactive, Digital, Google Forms, NO PREP
Perfect for Distance Learning or In ClassThis valuable product is FREE so you can test out a new awesome way to include technology in your teaching! The dynamic Genially interactives are combined with the gradable Google Forms to make lessons and assessments that are engaging and effective.The Lesson:This ATOMS Google Forms Lesson includes links to two Virtual Science Teachers interactives that walk students through the concepts of matter, atoms, elements, protons, neutrons, electrons, charge,
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6th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-1
Virtual Frog Dissection / Virtual Lab
Click Here for the virtual lab. The google doc attached is just a doc with the link.This is a fully virtual, interactive frog dissection activity. It is an interactive Canva presentation. The activity covers lab safety materials, exploration of internal organs, external sensory organs, sexing, reproductive systems, and some multiple choice questions testing scientific knowledge as it relates to frogs :)PLEASE, please leave a review if you're happy with the product. I worked very hard on this and
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6th - 12th
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Biotechnology Virtual Lab Worksheets
This biotechnology packet contains a series of questions which correspond to free virtual labs which focus on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gel electrophoresis, DNA microarray analysis, reproductive cloning, and stem cell biology. While the labs themselves are wonderful resources, I wished they included worksheets for the students to complete to keep them focused on the material. As a result, I decided to create some! They are a great way to expose high school students to the steps of ge
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9th - 12th
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Explore the Respiratory System
Breathe in and breathe out. What happens to your chest?
Our lungs are like balloons. As we inhale oxygen, they inflate. As we exhale carbon
dioxide, they deflate. Construct a paper lung and inflate it.
Spot the tiny dots. What do alveoli do as we take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide?
Directions:
1) Cut out square; place printed side up. Fold in half horizontally to crease. Flip over and fold on each diagonal.
2) Collapse into a triangle by pulling the edges of the horizontal fold in
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K - 9th
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Microscope Simulation (Virtual Lab/Virtual Microscope)
I know everyone is getting accustomed to online learning. In order to make that transition a little easier I decided to make a simulation I created free. In order to make online learning easier, feel free to download for classroom use. I do not claim ownership of the microscope image. I did use that image to create a virtual lab where students can use an interactive simulation to identify the various parts of a microscope. I spent a great deal of time generating the simulation. Students can clic
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6th - 12th
Newton's Laws Lab (PhET Simulation Worksheet)
This lab worksheet is intended to be used with the PhET Simulation: Forces & Motion Basics. Students are guided to set up the simulation in various ways, and collect data from the simulation. They will analyze their data and answer questions.This lab worksheet covers Newton's 1st and 2nd Laws.
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8th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-PS2-2
, HS-PS2-1
Enzyme Virtual Lab | Google Slides
This digital activity is a companion to an online simulation lab on enzymatic function. This Google Slide deck serves as the 'Student Sheet' for students to record their work as they complete the virtual lab (Please Note: online simulation lab requires Flash). In the lab, students will run a simulation that tests enzymatic function at various pH levels and with various amounts of substrate. This activity can be assigned and completed through Google Classroom, making it great for Remote/Distance
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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pHet - Skatepark Simulation - Potential and Kinetic Energy
Skatepark ScienceVirginia State Science Standards (2018) – Physical Science – PS.5Learning Objectives•I can differentiate between kinetic and potential energy (PS.5a). •I can plan and conduct observational and/or experimental investigations related to transformations of kinetic and potential energy (PS.5b). •I can generate, analyze, and interpret data in tables, graphs, charts, diagrams, and/or other displays to compare relative amounts of potential and kinetic energy (PS.5a). •I can plan and co
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8th - 10th
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Greenhouse Effect Webquest
This is a short webquest I created using the EPA's website and the PhET simulation, Greenhouse Effect. I got the questions for the PhET simulation from the teacher resources section. It was written by Christine Russo.I used this with my 11-12 grade environmental science/ecology class, but it could easily be used with the lower grades.
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7th - 12th
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Zombie Survival Ice Breaker and Introduction to Science Activity
The goal of this activity is to serve as an icebreaker and introduce students to the basic concepts of effective science at the start of the year. To be meaningful in science, our results must be reproducible and that starts with effective note taking. In this activity students must keep a detailed log of what they are doing to build their construction. This will be tested when groups exchange their logs and attempt to reconstruct the original creation.
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9th
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