{"id":17358,"date":"2011-04-04T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17358"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:50:32","slug":"science-simulations-a-virtual-learning-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/04\/science-simulations-a-virtual-learning-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Simulations: A Virtual Learning Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journeyintech.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/science-simulations-virtual-learning.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Science Simulations: A Virtual Learning Environment <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from Journey in Technology by Dolores Gende<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do I find  simulations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>One  of the best websites for science simulations is <a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhET<\/a> from the University of Colorado at  Boulder. Originally founded by Physics Nobel Prize laureate Carl Weiman, PhET  provides fun, interactive,<a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/research\" target=\"_blank\"> research-based<\/a> simulations of physical phenomena  for free. These simulations can be downloaded or played directly on your  browser.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers can access the <a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/for-teachers\/browse-activities\" target=\"_blank\">Teacher Ideas  &amp; Activities<\/a> page for teacher-submitted contributions, designed to be  used in conjunction with the simulations.<\/p>\n<p>These are the links to the core science courses simulations. The PhET  website also contains excellent Math simulations.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulations\/category\/biology\" target=\"_blank\">PhET  Simulations Biology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulations\/category\/chemistry\" target=\"_blank\">PhET  Simulations Chemistry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulations\/category\/physics\" target=\"_blank\">PhET  Simulations Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulations\/category\/earth-science\" target=\"_blank\">PhET  Simulations Earth Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Simulation  Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Biology<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/biology\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/biology\" target=\"_blank\">Biology Online Labs<\/a><br \/>\nComprehensive list to virtual labs and simulations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/anatomy\" target=\"_blank\">Anatomy Online Labs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive list to virtual labs and simulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Chemistry<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/chemistry\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/chemistry\">Chemistry Online Labs<\/a><br \/>\nComprehensive list to virtual labs and simulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Earth Science\/Geology<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/geology\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelabs.in\/geology\">Geology Online Labs<\/a><br \/>\nComprehensive list to virtual labs and simulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Physics<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/apphysicsb.homestead.com\/vls.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apphysicsb.homestead.com\/vls.html\">Physics  Simulations<\/a><br \/>\nMy website contains links to hundreds of simulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Simulations: A Virtual Learning Environment &#8212; from Journey in Technology by Dolores Gende Where do I find simulations? One of the best websites for science simulations is PhET from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Originally founded by Physics Nobel Prize laureate Carl Weiman, PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,364,263,284,83,126,253],"tags":[743,745,266,709,611,632,699],"class_list":["post-17358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-geography-geology","category-physics","category-science","category-simulations","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-geology","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-simulations","tag-virtual-reality-worlds-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17358"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17365,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17358\/revisions\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}