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Physical science simulations under $5
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Electrical Circuits Virtual Lab Activity and Webquest [Distance Learning]
Incorporate TECHNOLOGY into your next electricity lesson with this PRINT & GO virtual lab activity and web-quest (with answer key). This activity gives students the opportunity to practice building simple series and parallel circuits via an online virtual lab. No set-up required! Just print and go.This lab is perfect for distance learning, flipped classrooms & online courses and includes a printable version as well as a digital Google Slides version.This activity takes students to 3 webs
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8th - 11th
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PhET Simulation Online Lab: Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
This engaging inquiry-based PhET lab activity will guide your students to an understanding of Newton’s law of universal gravitation as they learn what factors affect the force between two masses. This online lab is intended to be used with the Gravity Force Lab: Basics HTML5 Simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. The link for the simulation is: https://tinyurl.com/p35r9vv2 In the first activity students will learn that the gravitational force is always attractive. Newton’s law of universa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Growing Bundle: PhET Simulations Online Physics and Chemistry Labs
Wave on a String PhET Lab
This virtual PhET Wave on a String Lab provides students opportunity to experiment with the various components of waves and the relationships between their anatomy, motion, and energy. It's SO important to see waves in motion to understand them! This virtual lab is a great way to help students to visualize the motion of transverse waves and to give them the opportunity to manipulate waves in order to see the relationships between wavelength, frequency, and wave speed. The lab provides both a gui
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7th - 9th
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MS-PS4-1
Chemical Speed Dating: A Review Activity on Chemical Bonding
This chemical bonding review activity reinforces student knowledge of ionic and covalent bonds using a fun speed dating simulation! Low prep and interactive, this complete high school lesson plan is a great choice for chemistry and physical science classrooms year round – and it makes an awesome holiday activity around Valentine’s Day! Who Is This Product For?The Chemical Speed Dating activity is best suited for secondary chemistry and physical science students who need to have a solid understan
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8th - 11th
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HS-PS1-2
Forces & Motion Tug of War PHET Lab Worksheet MS-PS2-2
Description: Do you need a way for your students to explore balanced and unbalanced forces? This PHET Simulation is the perfect solution! Students are able to explore and observe balanced forces, unbalanced forces, and net force. This activity is aligned to MS-PS2-2 and is a great introductory lesson! What's Included: Link to PHET SimulationTeacher directionsStudent handout (two versions: one for science note booking and one for students to record on)Editable PowerPoint slides to guide the l
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6th - 9th
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MS-PS2-2
States of Matter PHET Lab Worksheet MSPS1-4
Description: Do you need an easy way for your students to explore states of matter? This PHET Simulation is the perfect solution! Students are able to explore and observe how particle motion, the compactness of particles, and the temperature changes when a substance goes from a solid to a liquid to a gas. This activity is aligned to MS-PS1-4 and allows students to draw their own conclusions about particles in the different states of matter as they explore the simulation and answer the questio
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6th - 9th
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MS-PS1-4
Tides Lab Using Water Balloons - Hands On Experience That Kids LOVE!
This lab is a really fun way to use discovery and investigation to teach students how gravity and inertia cause tides, along with the moon. The cost is low (a package of water balloons and yarn) and it is a great activity to get kids moving and outside. They work in small groups and go through a series of steps and procedures and record data. This was one of the most fun labs of the year for students and was instrumental is having kids understand why we have high tides on the side of the Earth c
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6th - 12th
Circuits Inquiry Lab (Phet Simulation) | Physics
This is a simple inquiry-based lab that I love to give students as an intro to Energy and Work. Students will figure out for themselves conceptual problems involving Circuits. They will get the basic idea of how Circuits in Series and Circuits in Parallel work. Lastly, the last page of the lab also gives students an opportunity to create their own circuit, which they love, and they get to learn more through creating and playing. Everything is fully editable. Students will:- Learn through play- H
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-5
Also included in: HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS | Entire Year Lab Bundle | NGSS Curriculum
PhET Simulation Online Lab: States of Matter
In this guided inquiry PhET online lab your students will investigate the three states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. By the end of this online lab students will be able to (1) describe the characteristics of the three states of matter, (2) compare the motion of the particles in the three different phases, (3) explain how to change the state of a material and be able to name the six different phase changes (4) understand that different substances have different melting and boiling tempera
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Growing Bundle: PhET Simulations Online Physics and Chemistry Labs
Gravity and Orbits PhET Lab
This virtual PhET Gravity and Orbits simulation lab provides students opportunity to experiment with the variables that affect the force of gravity between two objects and the concept of orbital motion. This inquiry activity can be used in a physical science class while students are exploring motion and gravity. This could also be incorporated during an astronomy unit or even as an inquiry into the concept of gravity alone. There are two differentiated versions of this activity:The green circle
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7th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-2
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Stations Student Workbook
*This workbook is designed to go along with the "Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Stations" that's FREE!Dowloading my FREE "Weatering, Erosion, and Deposition 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 ca
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4th - 9th
Investigate Newton's 2nd Law of Motion with PHET Collision virtual lab model
Students investigate Newton's Second Law of Motion using a computer model from the University of Colorado PHET. This simulation allows students to change the mass of objects that collide. This activity can be used as an activator to build knowledge for concepts in physics, physical science, momentum, forces, and F=MA. Students write an open response, using a claim - evidence - reasoning (CER) template. This is an editable .rtf file. You can upload it to Google Docs and share it through Google Cl
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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PhET Simulation Online Lab: Coulomb's Law
This engaging inquiry based PhET lab activity will guide your students to an understanding of Coulomb’s law as they learn what factors affect the force between two charged particles. This online lab is intended to be used with the Coulomb’s Law HTML5 Simulation from PhET interactive simulations. The link for the simulation is: https://tinyurl.com/2x5jzzcb In the first activity students will learn how to determine the direction of the force between two charged particles. In the second activity st
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Growing Bundle: PhET Simulations Online Physics and Chemistry Labs
Energy Skate Park PhET - Google Form Worksheet (distance learning)
This Energy Skate Park PhET - Google Form Worksheet is used to guide and assess students as they learn about the conservation of energy. Students will experiment with the PhET simulation and see the relationship between kinetic, potential, thermal, and total energy in a system. Students experiment with a frictionless environment as well as an environment with friction. At the end, students can play with the simulation to create their own skate park. The Energy Skate Park PhET - Google Form Works
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7th - 10th
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MS-PS3-4
, HS-PS3-2
, MS-PS3-3
Force & Motion- Marshmallow Shooters Experiment
This is a very fun experiment your students will love when learning about force and motion!
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3rd - 8th
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Energy Skate Park PHET Lab Worksheet: Potential & Kinetic Energy
Description: Do you need a quick and easy way to show your students how potential and kinetic energy are related? This print and go activity is a great way for students to explore potential energy and kinetic energy. Students will observe potential energy, kinetic energy, how potential and kinetic energy are related, and the law of conservation of energy with this online PHET simulation. Then, they will answer questions on this worksheet to deepen their understanding of potential and kinetic en
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6th - 9th
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MS-PS3-5
Also included in: Energy Skate Park PHET Lab Worksheets- Potential & Kinetic Energy Bundle
PhET Gravity and Orbits Simulation - ZERO PREP
Help students understand the role of gravity in the solar system. It is a ZERO prep activity and only needs to be uploaded to your Google Classroom. This is also an excellent resource to create quick and easy sub plans. This product is a pdf document that links to the google document.This resource is designed to be used with google classroom to allow students to understand the role of gravity in the solar system using the Earth-Sun-Moon system as a model.It includes:* Student worksheet* In
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Gravity Experimental Design Bundle
Energy Transformations Virtual Lab Digital & Printable Worksheets
Product DescriptionThis product was created for my 7th grade science classroom. The Virtual Lab is provided by PhET Interactive Simulations by University of Colorado Boulder. Follow this link https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park-basics/latest/energy-skate-park-basics_en.html and https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park-basics/latest/energy-skate-park-basics_en.html to see the software requirements to run the simulation. There is both a virtual document to fill out
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6th - 8th
Virtual Circuits Inquiry Lab - Phet resource
This inquiry lab takes students through the process of building different types of circuits in the Phet Circuit Construction Kit: DC only. Students will build series and parallel circuits and explore the differences between them. They will also be able to explore their own circuits and there is an extension for building a series-parallel circuit as well.UPDATE FEB 1, 2022 - NOW WITH ANSWER KEY! If you have previously purchased this resource, I have finally gotten around to adding the answer key.
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5th - 10th
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HS-PS2-5
, 3-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-3
, MS-PS2-5
PhET Build an Atom - Atomic Structure Activity - ZERO PREP
This digital atomic structure activity is ZERO PREP. They'll learn and understand complex ideas AND get lots of practice. This is a ready-to-use Google™ Doc that guides students to the PhET Build an Atom Simulation. This inquiry-based activity will lead your students to understand the basic structure of the atom and it's subatomic particles. This simulation will help your students learn:The charges and relative mass of each subatomic particleThe location of each particle within the atomHow t
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: PhET Simulation Guide Bundle for Middle School
Distance Learning: Specific Heat virtual lab (graphing data and PhET simulation)
This product includes 1 google slide document.Interactive google slides where students graph data from different substances sitting in the sun, and use the graph to determine the relative specific heats of the substances. Students also explore a PhET simulation to determine if water or oil has a higher specific heat
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Distance Learning: Thermochemistry Unit Bundle
ZERO PREP - PhET States of Matter Simulation Guide
This digital states of matter activity will help your students understand the states of matter at a particle level with ZERO PREP. They'll fully understand the relationship between thermal energy and particle motion after this activity. If you follow the 5E Model, this is an excellent activity for the explain phase for MS-PS1-4. This is not a full NGSS-style lesson sequence, but rather an activity that would be used in a longer lesson sequence.This simulation helps students to understand how
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-4
Also included in: PhET Simulation Guide Bundle for Middle School
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[Springs] Simple Harmonic Motion (Phet Simulation) | Physics
This is a simple inquiry-based lab that I love to give students as an intro to Simple Harmonic Motion and springs. Students will figure out for themselves what the period of a spring is dependent upon. They will get the basic idea of springs and oscillations, through creating experiments on their own. Everything is fully editable. Students will:- Learn through play- Have guided questions to direct learning- Discuss and Hypothesize- Come up with Conclusions- Be a part of real-world applications f
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-PS4-1
Also included in: HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS | Entire Year Lab Bundle | NGSS Curriculum
PhET Simulation Online Lab: Forces & Motion
Looking for a great activity to start your unit on Newton’s laws of motion? Don’t want to give a big lecture or start with a bunch of mathematical calculations? Students love PhET Interactive Simulations and this guided inquiry activity on forces and motion is a great way to get started. Have fun and learn at the same time.I find this to be a great guided inquiry activity that will work well for students from middle school through high school. This activity will guide students as they investigat
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Newton’s Laws of Motion Bundle: Three PhET Online Labs
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