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Free high school 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
FREEBIE Practice Job Application
Hello! I teach high school special education. My students have moderate to severe disabilities and they need daily practice in functional skills.
This practice job application provides plenty of room for them to
write in the spaces, while giving them daily practice in recalling
and writing their personal information. I hope your students enjoy this and improve their skills as much as my students have!
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Finding Simple & Compound Interest - Car Activity
This is a quick, one page activity involving simple and compound interest. It presents a car and its price and offers four financing options. Students calculate the total to be repaid for each option. Great for comparing compound and simple interest or showing how length of a loan affects credit!Key is included. Discussion question page coming soon!TEKS: 8.12A, 8.12B, 8.12D, and 8.12E
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7th - 10th
Articles of Confederation Simulation
A great interactive simulation to demonstrate to government or US history students the failures of the Articles of Confederation. After the lesson students will have a clear understanding of why the US needed a stronger central government. Students will take on the role of one of the 13 original states and will participate in a session of Congress to see if they can solve the pressing challenges facing the new nation.
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8th - 12th
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End of the Year Balloon Pop (Digital Slides)
Let's end the year with a bang! Here's a slideshow that's editable where you can virtually pop a balloon each day with fun activities inside each balloon. The slideshow is animated with a moving needle to pop the balloon and confetti afterward. Good for up to 12 balloons. I use it as a countdown to the end of school. Includes a list of activities and links to easy virtual activities you can do with your kiddos through Zoom! Good for all ages!
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2nd - 9th
Life on Minimum Wage - Personal Finance Game for Students
The purpose of Life on Minimum Wage is for students to recognize how difficult it is to save money when your only job(s) pay minimum wage without benefits. To win at Life on Minimum Wage the students have to reach five financial goals that they select. To earn money the students have to complete the tasks of their assigned jobs. The students then have to pay required bills before using money for their selected financial goals. As the game progresses students will be issued "surprise" cards which
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5th - 10th
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Industrialization Activity (FUN, Interactive, Creative) Urban Game
Very fun Industrialization activity. This is one of my favorite activities. It is always a huge hit with students and makes a strong impact on their comprehension of Industrialization.Students create a map of a town one step at a time. They witness how the changes of the Industrial Revolution effect their town. They see how the growth, the pollution, disease, crime, and more slowly destroy their peaceful village. Surprise twist ending for the kids is exciting. I spend two class days on thi
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4th - 12th
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Personal Finance, Career, & Life Skills Simulation Game (Teen & Adult) - Sample
My Best Life™ – Creating the best version of You
Financial Scenario Planning Game
INTRODUCTION
What if you could live multiple lives retaining the hindsight and life lessons you learned along the way? Do you think you could come up with a “BEST” model of your life?
That’s the power of My Best Life™! Students get the opportunity to live out life scenarios and see what happens. Along the way, they learn the things most of us didn’t learn until we were thrust out into the world. We made tho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Personal Finance Car Buying Project
This project is great for use in any principles of business, personal finance, or other business class. In this project students will work at their own pace as they to go through all the steps necessary to make an informed car buying decision. This project uses the Internet and familiarizes students with sites like Kelly Blue Book, BankRate.com, and insurance websites. Students will be guided through selecting a car, comparing prices, finding what other consumers are paying for the car, finding
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9th - 12th
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Model United Nations (Model UN) simulation on climate change
Are you interested in an interactive Model UN simulation where the students would be able to understand the topic easily, would be able to discern many different views on the topic, and would be able to fairly easily discern the policies of the country they represent in the simulation? This product on climate change will "do the trick."Updated April 2021 to include some of President Biden's climate policies147 teachers have bought this product and the reviews are excellent.Important: this simul
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9th - 12th
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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
Choose an Adventure: The French and Indian War
This product is perfect for any middle or high school class, but is geared specifically toward history teachers looking for an engaging and immersive history experience. The "Choose an Adventure" lessons are a great way to replace a traditional lecture for a day and do a lesson that will stick with students for a lifetime. Based on a 100% true story, students will take the perspective of a young colonial American surveyor as he attempts to negotiate with the French over the Ohio River Valley. Th
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8th - 12th
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"My Island" Engaging Hook for Dystopian Fiction, Propaganda, and Leadership
This resource gives students an active way to engage in how perfect societies can go wrong. Excellent to introduce dystopian literature, propaganda, the psychology of power, development of socializations, supply and demand, and trade. Also excellent activity to teach about leadership and collaboration.
Students will have to “escape” civilized society and create a society on their own. There are two groups within the class, both of whom land on different sides of an island with different resour
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7th - 12th
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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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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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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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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
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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Financial Literacy Video Game - HTML5 Distance Learning (Educator Free Trial)
Video Game about Personal Finance, Investing, Money Management, & Budgeting. An evidence-based, hand drawn visual-novel personal finance simulation game for High School and Young Adults that teaches financial literacy skills. Free Educator Trial Version! Obtain access to a free version of the game just because you're awesome! Test out 21st century game based learning for yourself before purchasing for use in your classroom. This is a trial copy available only to educators for classroom testi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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
Grades:
6th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
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