beelzebub
12-25-2009, 08:16 PM
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.
If yall have kids (or you are a kid) you will find these educational games quite interesting. Heck... they are entertaining even for adults! I would recommend downloading them but you can also just run them off the internet.
I use many of them with the teachers I work with. My favorites are the "Circuit Construction" and "Faraday's Electromagnet Lab" Circuit construction is great for showing electron flow, series and parallel circuits. It contrasts well with Faraday's lab where kids can see the difference between its AC flow and the DC flow in the circuit simulation.
The sims for the physical sciences are well represented but the biology section sucks.
Just click below
PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations)
If yall have kids (or you are a kid) you will find these educational games quite interesting. Heck... they are entertaining even for adults! I would recommend downloading them but you can also just run them off the internet.
I use many of them with the teachers I work with. My favorites are the "Circuit Construction" and "Faraday's Electromagnet Lab" Circuit construction is great for showing electron flow, series and parallel circuits. It contrasts well with Faraday's lab where kids can see the difference between its AC flow and the DC flow in the circuit simulation.
The sims for the physical sciences are well represented but the biology section sucks.
Just click below
PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations)