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Simulations & Interactives

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BeeBot Online

Robotics

No Bee-Bot? No problem! Use this online platform to program a virtual Bee-Bot. With several mats to choose from, students use coding to reinforce concepts such as alphabet, shapes, and even coordinates!

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Bongo Cat

STEAM

Try your hand with various percussion instruments. 

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Project Beak

Life Science

Build your own bird and see the chance of survival in your chosen habitat. 

Image by Andreas Dress

Light Up the Cave

Physical Science

Primary students will love being able to test sources of light (flashlight, fireflies, lantern) as they search for treasure in a cave using this Smithsonian interactive. 

Image by Dirk van Wolferen

Owl Pellets

Life Science

Want to dissect owl pellets but it's over your budget? Do you have online learners without access to materials? Use this handy simulator to get an up close look at the food chain as you examine bones and try to put a skeleton together. Since this great site includes setting with hints for students who may need extra help navigating, it's a great experience for multiple ages and skills. 

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Solar System Simulator

Astronomy

Have you ever wondered what Earth looks like from Neptune? Saturn from Ariel? Enter a target date and use the dropdown menu to catch a glimpse of our solar system. Most appropriate for older students 5th grade+

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NCES

Math

Kid friendly graphing site. Students simply choose the type of graph, enter their data, and a graph is created. Students can submit, by emailing the graph to the teacher when complete. 

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NCTM Illuminations Interactives

Math

From paper to pan balances, these math interactives have you covered. These online manipulatives are appropriate for grades K-12. 

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Blob Opera

STEAM

Compose your own opera. Musical experience is not required for this fun, interactive site.

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Static Electricity

Physical Science

Grab a balloon to explore concepts of static electricity such as charge transfer, attraction, repulsion, and induced charge.

Image by Ante Hamersmit

Animal Vision

Life Science

Transition between human vision and the vision of a dog, gecko, snail, and others by moving sliders. 

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Chrome Music Lab

STEAM

Use Chrome Music Lab as a tool in their classrooms to explore music and its connections to sciencemathart, and more. 

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Virtual Microscope

Biology

Use this simulator to learn the parts of a microscope and examine slides on this easy viewer! 

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Circuits

Physical Science

This PhET simulation allows students to create circuits using switches, light bulbs, different capacity power sources, fuses, and resistors. It also allows users to experiment with different objects such as coins and erasers to close the circuits. Be careful though, if the circuits are overloaded the circuits will catch fire!

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Gizmos

Math & Science

Math & Science standards based virtual labs geared for 3rd-12th graders. While there is a cost to access, EL Learning grants access to 35  labs at no cost.  

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