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Gel Electrophoresis

In this virtual lab simulation, gel electrophoresis is used to separate dyes and see them in an agarose gel.

Transforming Bacteria

In this virtual lab simulation, users will practice transforming bacterial cells with a recombinant plasmid using the heat shock method.

Micropipetting Solutions

This virtual lab simulation allows the user to practice using a micropipette in a virtual laboratory environment.

“Using science lab simulations has made my students more confident in both scientific thinking skills and familiarity with science equipment and tools. I love how it allows them to interact with the lab materials, make mistakes, and see how their actions impact the outcome. The ability to have autonomy in the virtual lab and try different things while getting feedback gives them a deeper understanding of the concepts.”

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Absorption In the Small and Large Intestines: Journey from the stomach to the bloodstream

In this simulation, you will step into the Anatomy and Physiology lab to discover how essential your intestines are in maintaining human life. Investigate what happens if your intestines malfunction and learn why you really need to eat your veggies!

Acids and Bases (Principles): Avoid falling in a lake of acid!

In a futuristic lab, you will get help from a robot assistant to determine the acidity of a lake of acid found on an exoplanet. You will learn how to quantify the acidity and alkalinity of substances.

Acids and Bases: Acidity and Alkalinity in Everyday Substances

Join Marie in the Acids and Bases Simulation and explore the nature and concepts of these important chemical compounds. Measure the pH of chemical solutions, and use your acquired knowledge to evaluate mixtures of acids and base.

Action Potential Lab: Experiment with a squid neuron

Dissect a squid and use its giant neuron to witness the propagation of information in the shape of an action potential created by an electric current. Use this information to identify a neurotoxin affecting a hospitalized patient.

Advanced Acids and Bases

Join us in in the exploration of acids and bases and learn all the advanced terms used in chemistry.

Anatomy of the Respiratory System: Help rebuild a broken system

Learn about the anatomy and functions of the upper and lower respiratory tract while rebuilding the respiratory system on a broken model. Follow the journey of air all the way from the nasal cavity to the alveoli.

Animal Genetics

Learn about the Mendelian inheritance of double muscling in cattle. Find the responsible gene using linkage analysis and learn how mutation in this gene alters gene expression resulting in double muscled cattle.

Antibodies: Why are some blood types incompatible?

Learn about the concepts of antibodies and antigens, as well as the ABO and Rhesus blood grouping systems and their importance in blood transfusions. Then, you will help a young couple determine a potential risk for Rhesus disease in their unborn child.

Applications of Buoyancy: floatation

Join Dr. One at the lake and learn what it takes to make an object float or sink. Find out how the density of a liquid does significantly impact the buoyancy of an object and how much of a floating object is submerged below the surface.

Aromatic Compound Nomenclature: Naming benzene’s derivatives

Join Dr.One in our chemistry lab to learn how to recognize aromaticity, master IUPAC and non-systematic nomenclature, and classify compounds as aromatic or non-aromatic. Do you have what it takes to become champion of the chemistry Olympics?

Aseptic Technique: Culture your sample without contamination

Help a microbiologist prepare a pure culture that can be used to identify a microbe causing an infection! Use good aseptic technique to avoid contamination of the sample, ensure your own safety, and avoid surprise fires in the lab.

Atmospheric Circulation, Climate, and Biomes: Determine the lab’s location!

Discover the patterns of atmospheric circulation and the role it plays in influencing local climates and biomes around the world. Then use this knowledge to determine the biome and latitude of the lab!

Atomic Structure (Principles): Atoms and isotopes

Learn about the atomic structure of the elements and investigate the properties of element samples from an exoplanet to assess whether life on it is a possibility. Find out what differentiates ions and isotopes of an element.

Atomic Structure (Principles): Bohr and quantum models

Explore the atomic model, absorption and emission spectra, and how they reveal information about stars in galaxies far far away.

Atomic Structure: Assess the possibility of life on other planets

Learn about the atomic structure of the elements and investigate the properties of element samples from an exoplanet to assess whether life on it is a possibility. Find out what differentiates an atom from an ion and define the isotopes of an element.

Azo Dye Test: Identify primary aromatic amines

Our lab recently relocated and some chemical labels were damaged during the move. Help us to reorganize our box of amines by performing the azo dye test. Use your results to determine if the unknown amine is a primary aromatic amine or not.

Bacterial Cell Structures: An introduction to the bacterial cell

Visit a research station in Antarctica and help the researcher Nicolas explore bacteria in melting water. Uncover the features that are necessary for bacterial survival and compare these to other bacteria living elsewhere.

Bacterial Growth Curves: Experiment with bacterial growth

Learn about the mind-boggling speed of exponential growth and test how different growth conditions affect bacterial growth.

Bacterial Isolation

Learn about the proper techniques of isolating single colonies from a culture sample, how to use aseptic techniques and how to perform plate streaking.

Bacterial Quantification by Culture

Use the serial dilution technique to quantify the effect of a novel antibiotic compound on bacterial growth.

Bacterial Shapes and Movement

Explore different bacterial shapes by using a microscope to look at a sample of bacteria from Antarctica.

Balancing Equations: Mastering the process

Master the art of balancing polyatomic ion equations in our practice simulation! Join a captivating mission where you'll unravel the secrets of chemical harmony.

Basic Chemistry Thermodynamics: Solve the challenge of storing renewable energy

Learn the core concepts of thermodynamics and apply the technique of bomb calorimetry to help solve the challenge of storing renewable energy.

Basic Electricity: Understand how electricity works

Help the scientists get electricity back in their lab by understanding how electricity works.

Behavioral Thermoregulation: Help keep a gecksi alive!

Life is hard when you need to constantly work to maintain your body temperature and keep your energy levels in check. Think like a gecksi, make wise choices and try to keep the gecksi alive in three challenging environments!

Benedict’s Test for Simple Carbohydrates

Have you ever wondered what a simple sugar is? Discover the structure of simple carbohydrates and how you can test for the presence of simple sugars in food samples.

Benedict’s Test: Which food samples contain reducing sugars?

Learn how to perform Benedict’s test for reducing sugars on a variety of food samples. Predict which samples contain reducing sugars and find out how your predictions compare to your results!

Biodiversity: Assess and compare biodiversity on an exoplanet

Travel to the exoplanet Astakos IV and use ecological methods to assess and compare biodiversity over time and between different sites.

Bioinformatics: An introduction

Embark on a mission to identify the metabolic pathway that produces an antimalarial compound in a rare plant. Can you begin the process of creating a novel antimalarial drug?

Biomes: Identify and create the main biomes on Earth

Learn about the main biomes on Earth and where they are located with our new Biome Generator. You will be able to adjust different parameters to build your own biome and observe the result of your changes instantly!

Introduction to containment level 3 (Biosafety level 3, BSL3) research laboratory, a hypothetical approach to identifying a potential bioterrorism agent that is classed as a hazard group three microorganism.

Biuret’s Test for Proteins

Have you ever wondered what protein is? Discover the structure of protein and how you can test for the presence of protein in food samples.

Blood Components: Dive into the microscopic world of blood cells!

Learn how to identify the key, physical characteristics of the blood components and understand their functions. Apply your knowledge to analyze patient’s blood samples and suggest possible diagnoses.

Body Planes and Sections: Locate a chimpanzee’s injuries

In this virtual lab you will help release an injured chimpanzee back into the wild by using your newfound knowledge of body planes and sections.

Body Structure and Organization: Help identify a potentially failing organ system

Learn about organ systems, their major functions, and the body cavities they're placed in, then use this knowledge to help respond to a medical emergency. Can you connect a patient’s symptoms to a potentially failing organ system?

Building Animal Cells

Help determine what a bear ate before it died by building the structure and choose the internal organelles of the four basic types of animal cells found inside the bear’s mouth.

Building Gram Positive and Gram Negative Cell Walls

Have you ever wondered what exactly makes bacteria divided into Gram groups? Do they have special barcodes or tiny identifiers at their surface? Let's find out together!

CRISPR-Cas applied to TGF-beta induced EMT

Learn how to detect the hallmarks of EMT using immunofluorescence and knock out the correct gene to revert the process using CRISPR

Calorimetry: Using a bomb calorimeter

Apply the technique of bomb calorimetry to help solve the challenge of storing renewable energy. Learn about the first law of thermodynamics, enthalpy, and internal energy.

Cancer Pharmacology: Provide recommendations in a multi-million dollar project

Review the usefulness of a multi-million dollar operation to identify potential drugs for cancer chemotherapy, and provide your recommendations to the Project Leader.

Cancer Sample Preparation for Mass Spectrometry

Assist in a biopsy on a cancer patient and learn how to prepare the sample for mass spectrometry by extracting its phosphopeptides. Will you be able to identify the cancer stage of the patient by looking at the phosphorylation pattern?

Cancer: Impact of BRCA mutations

Investigate the principles of cancer development and cancer-related gene mutations to assess the risk of breast cancer development in a patient with a history of cancer in the family.

Carbohydrates: The sugars that feed us

The Carbohydrates Lab explores how carbohydrates are broken down by the digestive system and taken up into the bloodstream.

Carbon NMR: What is the mystery compound?

Help Yummy Food Inc survive the shut down of their food factory! Learn about the principles of the analytical technique carbon-13 NMR and interpret the spectrum of the mysterious unlabelled compound they have used in their food and drink.

Carbon Valence, Hybridization and Angles

Join Dr. One on a mission to figure out how the orbitals of carbon’s valence electrons hybridize, and how this greatly influences the bonds that carbon is able to form.

Cardio-respiratory Physiology: How can seals dive so deep for so long?

Monitor three dives of a Weddell seal in Antarctica and discover how long it can dive with the oxygen available in its stores.

Cardiovascular Function During Exercise: Learn how your body reacts to exercise

Use medical tests to gather information about patients and determine how their cardiovascular systems respond to different exercise intensities.

Cell Culture Basics: Plate, split and freeze human cells

Find out what it’s like to work in a cell culture laboratory. Learn how to use the aseptic technique to avoid contamination of your cells, and discover what it takes to keep them alive.

Cell Division (Principles): Mitosis and Meiosis

Join a cell biology research group to find out how a poisonous compound from a yew tree can be used in cancer therapy. You will be immersed in an animation of a human cell and use light and fluorescence microscopy to study cell division.

Cell Membrane and Transport: Learn how transporters keep cells healthy

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes by launching cargo molecules at a virtual cell. Apply your learning back in the lab to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.

Cell Membrane and Transport: Modifying the cell membrane

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes using the fluid mosaic model. Apply your learning to improve the health of synthetic cells that the lead researcher wants to use to produce insulin.

Cell Membrane and Transport: Types of transporter proteins

Discover the structure and function of cell membranes by launching cargo molecules at a virtual cell.

Cell Structure: Cell theory and internal organelles

Explore different cell samples under the microscope to identify the differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Build the structure of an animal cell and choose the internal organelles of four specialized cells.

Cellular Respiration (Principles): Measure energy consumption during exercise

Help local basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy through cellular respiration. Use a mouse model to find out what effect exercise intensity has on oxygen and glucose consumption.

Cellular Respiration: Glycolysis

Help the basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy by investigating glycolysis, the first stage of cellular respiration.

Cellular Respiration: Measuring energy consumption during exercise

Help basketball players understand how the food they eat gets converted to energy through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain. Use a mouse model to experiment on the effect of exercise intensity on oxygen and glucose consumption.

Cellular Respiration: Respirometry

Observe how we can monitor and better understand respiration by a method known as Respirometry. Learn the effects of exercise of respiration by observing glucose levels and oxygen consumption through a model organism: a mouse.

Cellular Respiration: The Electron Transport Chain

Take dive inside a mitochondrion to learn all about the electron transport chain (ETC) and pass on your findings to the basketball team so they can learn too!

Cellular Respiration: The Krebs Cycle

Help a basketball team learn about what happens in the second stage of cellular respiration, the Krebs cycle, to help them improve their longevity in the game!

Ceric Ammonium Nitrate Test: Which compound contains alcohol?

Join Dr. Ali to discover how to use the ceric ammonium nitrate test to detect alcohols. Deduce which of our two samples contains alcohol groups by performing the test yourself!

Perform the chromatin immunoprecipitation with exonuclease treatment (ChIP-exo) protocol, and prepare the target DNA to learn how E. coli survive in acid stress conditions.

Chemical Nomenclature: Learn the importance of inorganic compounds in life!

Become an alchemist for the day! Conjure up the names of inorganic compounds and learn their applications. Can you unlock all 16 transmute structures?

Chemistry Safety

Go on a mission to produce sustainable biodiesel and learn how to safely work with dangerous chemicals without any risk of getting hurt.

Chemistry Safety: Dispose of chemical waste

Join the lab assistant Marie in clearing up the fume hood after some students left a mess in the lab. Learn how to use your knowledge of the chemicals required for an experiment and apply it to safely dispose of the chemical waste.

Chemistry Safety: Hazard symbols

Join lab assistant Marie to find out how to decide on the correct laboratory practice and personal protective equipment when dealing with hazardous chemicals. Learn the meaning of the hazard symbols and apply your knowledge with some example chemicals.

Collisions: Elastic and inelastic forces

Join Dr. One and Isaac Newton at the pool table to learn about momentum conservation and elastic and inelastic collisions.

Comparing Bacterial Structures

Explore the similarities and differences between bacterial and eukaryotic cell structures. Discover what structural features allow bacteria to survive in extreme environmental conditions.

Competition: Learn to identify and quantify competition between species

Help the residents in Astakos IV to increase the yield of their crops by reducing the competition between different species.

Concrete Materials Testing: Learn the key properties of durable concrete

Enter a virtual engineering lab to test concrete materials and work with an engineer. In the lab you will find samples of fine and coarse aggregates, cement, water & admixtures. Test many combinations and find the recipe for a durable concrete.

Conductivity Testing: Investigating conductivity and its practical applications

Embark on this electrifying adventure of conductivity testing. Grasp the difference between electrolytes and nonelectrolytes, the connection between concentration and conductivity, and appreciate the significance of ions in biological systems.

Confocal Microscopy

Join this virtual confocal microscopy lab and learn how to take pin-sharp confocal micrographs and 3D renderings. Use the knowledge to save your uncle’s crop from a mysterious plant disease.

Conservation of Energy (Principles): Unleash the roller coaster's potential

What does it take to make a roller coaster reach 100 km/h? Join the Labster's roller coaster engineering team and use the conservation of energy to design our most exciting ride yet!

Conservation of Energy: maximize the mechanical energy of a rollercoaster

Apply the concept of conservation of energy to make the Labster roller coaster ride faster and more exciting. Calculate potential, kinetic and mechanical energy using the formula board to determine how to best improve the roller coaster track.

Continental Drift Theory: Past and future locations of the world's continents

Solve the continental mystery discovered by Alfred Wegener. Piece together the jigsaw puzzle of continental drift by investigating different forms of evidence, and unravel the story they tell about how the continents have moved over millions of years.

Control of Microbial Growth: Explore decontamination and selective toxicity

A dental patient’s recurrent infection is becoming dangerously septic. Your task is to investigate the cause using diffusion disc assays and prevent further cases by exploring sterilization, decontamination & selectively toxic infection control methods.

Coulomb's Law: Electrifying electrostatics

Experiment with tensions and charges to uncover the secrets of Coulomb's law, the cornerstone of electrostatics.

Counting Cells: Control the epidemic

Work as a pharmaceutical detective to identify the link between a new drug and a recent epidemic. Use the scientific method to define the different variables and perform a fluorescent cell assay to test the effect of the drug on the cells.

Cytogenetics: Perform a prenatal diagnosis

Help a mother-to-be who is extremely worried about the fate of her baby. Will you able to diagnose the condition of the fetus using a cytogenetics-based approach?

DNA: Structure and function

Research the fundamentals of DNA in humans — where it is, how it’s structured, and what it does — to explain them to a confused reader of your science magazine.

Decomposition Reactions: Discover the secrets of Roman concrete

Experiment with the decomposition of calcium carbonate and explore how this reaction and the limestone cycle relate to Roman concrete’s durability.

Demo Simulation

In this demo virtual lab simulation, you will help Dr. One identify a fundamental biological molecule. During your mission, you will watch animations and explore lab equipment in the virtual lab.

Learn the basics of Type II diabetes.

Double Replacement Reactions: Help with a medical emergency!

Join this mission to synthesize barium sulfate for medical imaging by mastering double replacement reactions in an immersive lab simulation and explore the intersection of chemistry and healthcare.

Drivers of Plate Tectonics: Replicate Earth’s convection currents

Tectonic plates travel two to three centimeters each year, but why? And how? Create convection currents in different materials to understand what causes plate movement and why it is so slow.

Help a scientist detect and quantify proteins by using one of the most popular techniques in molecular biology.

Earth's Atmosphere

Join Dr. One in a spaceship and delve into the Earth’s history. Learn about the major events which caused dramatic changes to the composition of the atmosphere, and explore the theories and evidence which surrounds them.

Ecological niches: Choose the right Kuppelfang to bring to Earth!

Investigate why the Kuppelfangs died when transplanted to the new Astakos IV biodome on Earth. Quantify their realized and fundamental niche, and explore how acclimation affects the boundaries of a niche.

Ecosystem Dynamics: Assess the effect of fertilizers on the phosphorus cycle

Analyze the effects of fertilizers on the phosphorus cycle and help the residents in Astakos IV to increase their crop yield without compromising the environment.

Electrical Resistance: Apply Ohm's law to simple circuits

Build your own resistor to repair a broken radio.

Electrolysis

Experiment with electrolytic cells in a lab on Mars! Assemble different electrolytic cells so you can make hydrogen fuel for your Mars rover, and give mini Dr. One a new gold coating.

Electromagnetic Spectrum (Principles): Uses and dangers of electromagnetic waves

Discover what types of radiation make up the electromagnetic spectrum and the uses and dangers of each type.

Electron Transport Chain: A rollercoaster ride that produces energy

Help a group of engineers figure out if a mysterious dark alga is able to do photosynthesis using green light and measure this process with the Hill reaction. If it is, your work will help create a sustainable plan that will use sunlight and pollution sources for biofuel production.

Electrophilic Addition: Explore reactions of hydrocarbons

Travel to Titan on a reactivity reconnaissance mission and explore this hydrocarbon world. Can you use your knowledge of the electrophilic addition reaction to identify hydrocarbons that you could use to build an extra-terrestrial colony on Titan?

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution: Mechanisms and resonances

Step into the virtual classroom to learn the secrets behind the electrophilic aromatic substitution. Explore the mechanism of this reaction, the effects of activating and deactivating groups, and the stability of the different resonance structures. Can you help create the perfect perfume?

Elements and Compounds: Get the oxygen back online!

Learn the definitions of elements and compounds and use your new knowledge to get oxygen production back online in a malfunctioning spaceship … before it's too late!

Elimination Reaction: Use cyclohexanol to create polymers

Join Kim in the Polymer Research Lab to solve the puzzle of unexpected side product formation in their optimized cyclohexanol elimination reaction. Use and expand your organic chemistry knowledge to do this and get the polymer production back on track.

Embryology: Discover the genetics of limb development

Dissect chicken and mouse embryos to visualize and analyze embryonic development. Compare genetic results from the model organisms with the genetic laboratory results from a human case study to determine the cause and effect of Liebenberg Syndrome.

Endocrinology: Learn how contraceptives work

Develop a method for keeping a population of rabbits under control by using hormonal treatments. Investigate how different concentrations of different hormones impact the fertility of male and female rabbits.

Energy Surfaces and Spontaneous Reactions

Learn the core concepts of thermodynamics and discover how chemical reactions can be represented with energy surfaces. Determine which chemical reactions are spontaneous.

Environmental Impact of Coal Power Plants

Join the project manager Marie in her quest to uncover the environmental impacts of coal power plants and fish farming. Explore the issues with our current source of fuel and help Marie come up with a greener solution to save the environment.

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• Energy3D A simulation-based engineering tool for designing green buildings and power stations that harness renewable energy to achieve sustainable development.
• Flowsquare A two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for unsteady, non-reactive/reactive flows. The aim of this software is to provide a handy CFD environment so that more people can get to know what CFD is like and simulate flows for their educational and/or academic interests.
• GNU Radio A free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment.
• LogicSim design and simulate digital logic circuits with logic gates like AND, OR, FlipFlop, etc.
• Open Simulation Interface A generic interface for the environmental perception of automated driving functions in virtual scenarios.
• Reactor Lab A desktop app that provides simulations of a variety of chemical reactors. The Lab is useful in teaching Chemical Reaction Engineering. Students can actively learn about chemical reactions and reactors by performing experiments and analyzing data – quickly, safely, and inexpensively.
• SimSE An educational software engineering simulation environment whose goal is to bridge the gap between the large amount of conceptual software engineering knowledge given to students in lectures and the comparably small amount of this they actually get to put into practice in an associated "toy" software engineering project.
• Verilator Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator.
• Virtual Labs Collection of virtual labs in engineering.
• Avida-ED Allows students to design and perform experiments to test hypotheses about evolutionary mechanisms using evolving digital organisms.
• Biology Simulations Simulations to help students learn about biology and practice data analysis skills.
• Bioman Biology BioMan Biology is the fun place to learn Biology! Here you will find learning games, review games, virtual labs and quizzes that will help you to learn about cells, ecology, genetics, physiology, and much more!
• Build Your Own Brain (BYOB) An online game that lets the user build a simple network of neurons and see how they might function.
• Case It! Molecular biology simulations for case-based learning in biology.
• DNA from the Beginning An animated primer of 75 experiments that made modern genetics.
• eSkeletons Provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy.
• Evo Ed Case studies in evolution that track the development of traits from their origination in DNA mutation, to the production of different proteins, to the fixation of alternate macroscopic phenotypes in reproductively isolated populations.
• Gelbox Open source interactive simulation tool for gel electrophorisis. more... less... MacOS only.
• General Microbiology Labs Labs and lectures on microbiology from the University of Wyoming.
• Geniventure Students level up as they select alleles to control phenotypes, make predictions from genotypes, use meiosis to create gametes, and study inheritance by breeding baby drakes.
• HHMI BioInteractive Labs, interactive media, and videos. Also offers iOS apps.
• Learn.Genetics Offers online lessons in genetics, cell biology, evolution, human health, plant biology, neuroscience, and ecology. Also offers interactive genetics labs.
• NAVS Online Dissection Resources Curated list of virtual dissection labs and simulations from the National Anti-Vivisection Society.
• NCEP Resources for Conservation Educators and Practitioners Open access, electronic resources for conservation educators and trainers. They include diverse topics in conservation science and are designed for the post-secondary level.
• Neuroscience in the time of Corona Crowd-sourced compendium of resources for teaching neuroscience.
• Nursing Assistant Resources: Virtual Dissection Virtual dissection labs for studying human and animal anatomy and physiology.
• Optical Microscopy Primer Virtual microscopes that offer lessons in specimen focus, illumination intensity, magnification, and translation.
• QUBES Virtual labs and simulations for teaching quantitative biology.
• Science Bank Online Dissection Resources Virtual dissection resources. more... less... Items marked with an asterisk (*) require a fee for use.
• StarGenetics Mendelian genetics cross simulator. Allows students to simulate mating experiments between organisms that are genetically different across a range of traits to analyze the nature of the traits in question.
• Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection Supplement to laboratory dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology.
• Whole Frog Project Provides the ability to explore the anatomy of a frog by using data from high resolution MRI imaging and mechanical sectioning, together with 3D surface and volume rendering software.
• ActivEpi An electronic textbook for teaching epidemiology.
• Community Health Nursing Resources for the Community Nursing Diagnosis Assessment.
• Jim Allison: Breakthrough Award winning documentary with accompanying toolkit and lesson plans. more... less... Offers free educational licensing.
• MDCUNE Modular Digital Course in Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (MDCUNE) provides completely digital, inquiry-based laboratory modules in neuroscience.
• Nordic University Health Hub Open Educational Resources on Health from Nordic universities.
• Open Neuroscience Education Labs, open data, and other resources for teaching neuroscience.
• Public Health Image Library (PHIL) Offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures.
• Solve the Outbreak Epidemiology simulation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Algodoo Gives users the opportunity to play with physics. Use your own hands and simple drawing tools to design, construct and explore the world of physics.
• Astro Simulations Online implementation of several NAAP simulations from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning.
• Chem1 Virtual Textbook Reference text for general chemistry.
• CheMagic Provides a virtual model kit, chemistry demonstration videos, and liberal arts chemistry essays.
• ChemCollective A collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.
• Chemix Chemix is an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus. The app provides easy sketching for both students and teachers.
• ChemReaX A chemical reaction modeling and simulation app.
• ChemSims Simulations from the National Science Foundation covering solubility, kinetics, atomic interactions, gas laws, equilibrium, acid base, photoelectric effect, and atomic emissions.
• Digital Lab Techniques Manual A series of videos designed to help users prepare for chemistry laboratory class.
• GEAS Project Astronomy Laboratory Exercises Online exercises designed for distance learning. Includes archive of images and spectra as well as video tutorials. more... less... Full access provided on request.
• goREACT Create virtual chemical reactions.
• The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science Environmental Science online course text and a coordinated website which includes streamed video programs, five interactive simulations, background on the scientists who created the content and those whose research is documented, a professional development guide, and additional resources.
• HTML5 Physics Simulations Manipulate systems and experiment with climate change, motion, forces, gravity, momentum, energy, and rotation.
• Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. An interactive map developed by UNAVCO where users can add earthquakes, stress axes, volcanoes, or plate boundaries to the entire world or by country. more... less... For more information on the project as well as instructions on how to use the site: http://jules.unavco.org/VoyagerJrDocs/lib/help/Earth/helpoverview.html
• Mixed Reception Students use molar mass calculations, the scientific method, and basic knowledge of chemical reactions to solve a murder mystery. Students interview suspects and gather evidence as they solve the case. more... less... Recommend downloading for offline use in conjunction with VLC media player.
• NC State Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratories - S.M.A.R.T. Lab Videos Student created videos teaching introductory organic chemistry lab techniques.
• Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project Simulations of a wide range of astronomical phenomena, organized into unites of related simulations with readings. more... less... This is a Flash resource. However, Windows and Max executable versions available at https://astro.unl.edu/downloads/.
• Nuclear Reimagined Virtual Field Trip Journey to the leading nuclear research facility in the country, Idaho National Laboratory. Step inside a nuclear reactor, explore unexpected careers in nuclear science, and see what the future may hold thanks to advances in nuclear capabilities.
• Online Resources for Organic Chemistry List of URLs to online animations, videos, simulations, & demos compiled by the chem ed and biochem ed communities. more... less... Downloads .docx file.
• Open Source Physics Provides curriculum resources that engage students in physics, computation, and computer modeling. Computational physics and computer modeling provide students with new ways to understand, describe, explain, and predict physical phenomena.
• oPhysics A collection of interactive physics simulations.
• Physical Geology 101 Lab Study Material A handful of virtual labs with fillable worksheets and lab reports.
• The Physics Aviary Cross-platform, run-anywhere, programs to help physics students around the world master the big ideas in physics.
• The Physics Classroom Physics simulations, tutorials, and concept builders.
• Physics Simulations Interactive physics simulations.
• PlanetMaker Allows users to create and tweak their own planet using image textures and lighting.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Education Resources Resources to help teach chemistry for primary, secondary, and higher education.
• Scilab Open source software for numerical computation.
• SDSS Skyserver Projects Activities to examine many topics in astronomy including H-R diagrams, spectroscopies, galaxy classification, Hubble's Law, and more.
• Teaching Geoscience Online Geoscience lab activities.
• Tutorial Materials and Resources by Professor Gary L. Bertrand List of simulated experiments, self-tests, and tutorials.
• Virtual Chemistry Experiments A collection of interactive web-based chemistry tutorials.
• Virtual Microscope Allows users to examine and explore minerals and microscopic features of rocks, helping them to develop classification and identification skills without the need for high-cost microscopes and thin section preparation facilities.
• AnyLogic Simulation software that combines discrete event, system dynamics, and agent-based simulation methods so you can model any real-world system or process.
• iCivics Designed to engage students in meaningful civic learning. Provides teachers with well-written, inventive, and free resources.
• APA Online Psychology Laboratory Offers interactive demonstrations and experiments as well as sample datasets.
• CK-12 Multidisciplinary open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning for students.
• Data Nuggets Provides details of authentic science research projects and activities for practice looking for patterns and developing explanations about natural phenomena.
• eduMedia Interactive resources for science learning. more... less... Designed for elementary and secondary education.
• Gendered Innovations Case Studies Case studies demonstrating how methods of sex and gender analysis function to create gendered innovations in science, health, medicine, engineering, and environment.
• Investigative Case-Based Learning Investigative cases draw from realistic situations in which scientific reasoning can be applied. Although the case defines a general area of science under investigation, students generate specific questions to guide their study.

• LabXchange Curates and creates world-class digital labs, delivered on a free, online platform that lets you integrate your learning and research experiences.
• LibreTexts Multidisciplinary online textbook platform.
• Molecular Workbench A modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science.
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science A collection of essays examining every aspect of the case study method and its use in the science classroom.
• NOVA In-depth science programming in the form of one-hour documentaries and long-form mini-series, from the latest breakthroughs in technology to the deepest mysteries of the natural world.
• PhET: Interactive Simulations for Science and Math - CU Boulder
• Science Buddies Empowers K-12 students, parents, and teachers to quickly and easily find free project ideas and help in all areas of science from physics to food science and music to microbiology.
• WOLFRAM Demonstrations Project Part of the family of free online resources from Wolfram. Its daily growing collection of interactive illustrations is created by participating Wolfram users from around the world.
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6 Sites for Virtual Labs That Your Students Will Love

Are you hesitant about using in-person labs in the classroom? Virtual labs are a great option for both in-school and distance learning!

There are LOTS of options out there for online simulations – definitely too many to count! Here are some of my favorite virtual labs to use with my students. Hopefully, it helps to narrow down all of the choices!

Take some time to explore and maybe add something new to your toolbox! BTW, I am not affiliated with any of these programs – just sharing the love! 🙂

1. Explore Learning Gizmos

Explore Learning is an AWESOME site for online science simulations! They advertise that they are the world’s largest library of math and science simulations. I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true!

Our school has a subscription, and I can honestly say that it is worth every penny – more so now with all of the distance learning taking place!

The thing that I love most about these virtual labs is that there they offer so much support for each of the Gizmo activities.

Each virtual lab simulation contains a student exploration sheet (plus answers key) and a teacher guide with ideas as well as a quick student assessment. The teacher guide gives ideas for teaching the entire topic, not just for using the Gizmo.

The guides are in PDF as well as MS Word. The great part about using Word is that you can easily customize the labs to your liking. This is my favorite part because it is great to be able to modify for special education as well as ELL students!

The only drawback that I have seen is the price. However;…..

They offer Free Gizmo simulations! !! – Just register for the free account and get full access to the free virtual labs. The cool thing is that they change monthly, so you have access to a completely new set of labs to use with your students.

2. Phet Virtual Labs

Phet is another popular website for science simulations. Phet simulations are free , which is always a plus. I have found that these virtual labs are easily searchable by grade and discipline. These labs are particularly good for physics and chemistry lessons,

Phet simulations are less structured but they are ideal for guided inquiry. Some contain PDFs to guide the students. This was a little bit hidden to me, but you can find it under the “for teachers” link inside each simulation.

It’s definitely worth checking out!

3. NOVA Labs

In my opinion, anything produced by PBS is great! Take Daniel Tiger for instance… 🙂

They only offer a few topics, but if you are teaching about climate, evolution, cyber-security, RNA, clouds, energy, or the sun this is a great place to start!

Each topic has a combination of videos, animations, interviews with scientists, and mini-games that are easy to use and engaging for students.

I have used the clouds lab in the past during our weather unit and my sixth graders were really engaged in the program!

4. The Concord Consortium

If you are looking for FREE interactive STEM activities that align with NGSS, you will love this site!

This site was recommended by a science teacher friend who swears by it in her classroom. I have been spending some time on it this week and I definitely think I will add it to my toolbox for fall.

These modules are step by step and focus on data analysis. They also integrate Claims, Evidence, and Reason !!

5. Inq-ITS Virtual Lab

Recently, I have been fascinated with the Inq-ITS (pronounced “ink-its”) science inquiry labs!

These labs are are self-grading and track data for student growth. It is easy to share through Google Classroom!

This is also a paid subscription, but if you sign up for a free teacher account , you can access all of the General Inquiry labs, PLUS one of the physical, life or Earth science labs to use with your students. This makes it a great option for your students, even if you don’t purchase the subscription.

If you are using Claims, Evidence, and Reason in the classroom, you will love these virtual lab simulations! Each lab ends with a C-E-R paragraph that breaks down how to use the data to support your claim. Plus, many of the labs include AUTOMATIC scoring of the CER! I don’t think it could get much better! 🙂

6. 3 M Young Scientist Lab

These are seriously cool and I wish they offered more than 6 choices.

During our energy unit, I love to use the Wind Energy interactive. Students design, build, and test wind turbines as they try to power 400 homes for the cheapest price.

This is also a great virtual activity to use with the scientific method!

I’d be happy to send you a copy of the Virtual Wind Lab that I use with the 3M Young Scientist Simulation! It’s no-prep and ready to go!

Share your favorite virtual lab simulations below so we can share the love! 🙂

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By far, the best way to learn science is through hands-on exploration.  Nothing will bore a student more than requiring him to learn science from a dry textbook. 

Fortunately, it’s never been easier to do hands-on science at home, even during the high school years. 

These days, families can order preserved animal specimens for dissections, chemicals and lab equipment for at-home chemistry, microscopes, and more from many online vendors.  One of my personal favorites is Home Science Tools , and they’re always my first stop when I need anything for hands-on science.

While performing science experiments is an excellent way to bring science concepts to life, it’s not always feasible. If your high school student is learning from home, there are things they just won’t have access to (chemical fume hoods, incubators, centrifuges, gas bunsen burners, etc).

Technology to the rescue! 

There are some AMAZING virtual labs and simulations available that give your students the feel of doing the real thing.  The best part: many of these virtual labs and simulations don’t cost a thing!  Some may require you to create an account to use them, but it’s a small price to pay for the benefit they bring.

In this post, I’m sharing my favorite virtual labs and simulations for high school science.  This is not an exhaustive list: there are virtual labs I purposely left off.  Instead, I’ve only included the resources that I’ve used with my students (or plan to) and feel are top-notch.  This list will be a work in progress.  Whenever I find a new virtual lab or simulation, I will add it to the list.

To make it easier to find the type of lab you’re looking for, I’ve grouped the virtual labs by topic (biology, chemistry, and physics/physical science).   

Biology Virtual Labs and Simulations

Here are my favorite virtual labs and simulations for learning and exploring biology when hands-on options aren’t available.

Expandable Mind Software

I first found this gem of a site when I was looking for alternatives to animal dissections last year. While this is one resource that isn’t free, it’s well worth the very reasonable price tag.  

On this site you will find top-notch virtual animal dissections.  Many dissections are available: fish (lamprey, shark, and perch), cat , fetal pig , earthworm, frog , and invertebrates (squid, starfish, and crayfish). 

For each dissection, students can examine both the external and internal anatomy.  As they use the virtual tweezers to remove organs, an explanation of each organ is provided.  In addition, students can choose to watch a video clip relating to that particular organ.  For example, when performing the virtual frog dissection, the student is able to watch video clips of intestinal peristalsis, the heart pumping, and the lungs inflating.  

In addition to the virtual dissections, this site has other virtual labs. 

In the Animacules lab , students can view a variety of cells through a virtual microscope. 

I am just crazy about the eFly lab. Students explore genetic crosses as they virtually breed fruit flies.  As they analyze the fruit fly progeny of their crosses, they become familiar with Punnett Squares, dominant and recessive gene alleles, and sex-linked traits. 

This is by far one of my favorite resources for virtual labs! They have an option to try out the labs in demo mode before purchasing.

BioInteractive

In addition to some fantastic videos, lesson plans, and other activities, Biointeractive has some nice virtual labs for biology.  

While completing the Bacterial Identification Lab, the student is guided through the process of using PCR to identify unknown bacteria isolated from a petri dish.

In the Cardiology Virtual Lab, the student examines 3 patients and uses the results to determine the diagnosis. This is a fantastic simulation for teens considering a career in medicine and is one I plan to use this year with my Anatomy and Physiology students.

Learn Genetics

For years, Learn Genetics has been one of my favorite sites for ideas for teaching about DNA and genetics.  They have some virtual labs and simulations, too.  Their interactive simulations help students understand the procedures scientists use to study cells and DNA, including PCR , gel electrophoresis , flow cytometry , DNA extraction , and DNA microarrays .  

Bioman Biology

Bioman Biolog y offers games and virtual simulations on their website. These are a bit more like games than virtual labs, but they are done in ways that help students understand the material.

A simulation I plan to use in my Anatomy and Physiology class is called Respiratory Journey.  

In it, you control the path of an oxygen molecule as it makes its way through the respiratory system: through the trachea, into the lungs, through the walls of the aveoli and into the bloodstream, through the heart and to the body cells.  Students then drag the oxygen molecule into the cell’s mitochondria and watch as it is used to produce ATP.  Then they take up a carbon dioxide molecule (waste from cellular respiration) and direct its journey back through the veins to the heart, back to the lungs, and back out the trachea. 

It’s a really cool interactive experience and I anticipate that it will help students make multiple connections between gross anatomy and cellular processes.

Chemistry Virtual Labs and Simulations

Because chemistry deals with interactions that happen at the atomic level, it can be hard for students to visualize what is taking place.  This is why virtual labs and simulations are so fantastic for learning chemistry.

I have written about pHET before.  It is a gold mine of fun, game-like simulations in math and science and is suitable for multiple ages. I have used pHET simulations in my chemistry classes , because they help students understand abstract concepts. Here are two of my favorites.

In the  Balancing Chemical Equations sim , students are tasked with balancing three different chemical equations representing the formation of ammonia, the combustion of methane, and the decomposition of water. 

In each scenario, colored spheres represent atoms of different elements.  To balance an equation, what goes in must come out.  In other words, there must be the same number of atoms of each element on both sides of the chemical equation.  Students toggle up and down to increase or decrease the number of atoms of each element on both sides of the equation. Because they can SEE how many spheres of each color are on both sides of the equation, it’s easy for them to understand how to make the equation balanced.

My other favorite sim is called Reactants, Products, and Leftovers.   This one is all about stoichiometry: a notoriously hard concept for students to grasp. 

To start, this sim asks students to make sandwiches.  Like the previous sim, students use the toggles to add bread and cheese using following the recipe: 2 pieces of bread + 1 piece of cheese = 1 sandwich.  They can explore how many sandwiches they are able to make if they have 4 pieces of bread and 3 pieces of cheese, and so on.  It helps them comprehend the principles of excess and limiting reagents.

Then they move on to molecules as they explore the stoichiometry of making water, ammonia, and combusting methane.  Once again: the ability to SEE what is happening at the atomic level makes all the difference.

There are other chemistry sims that look amazing, including ones that explore acids and bases, gas laws, radioactive decay, molarity, molecular shape, pH, reaction rates, and more.  This is definitely a site I can spend a lot of time exploring.

American Society of Chemistry Teachers

The American Society of Chemistry Teachers has some really wonderful virtual simulations on their site. While access to the bulk of their resources requires a yearly membership (which is worth every penny for me), there are many free simulations available :  Preparing Solutions, Predicting Products, States of Matter and Phase Changes, Reaction Rates, Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry, Predicting Shifts in Equilibrium, Isotopes and Calculating Average Atomic Mass, Half-life Investigation, Density, and more !  

One particular favorite of mine is Measuring Volume . In it, students use virtual graduated cylinders to measure liquids. Not only do they learn how to read a meniscus, they also learn how to report their answers using the appropriate number of significant digits.

In the Ionic and Covalent Bonding simulation , students choose two elements from the periodic table. The simulation then displays the electron dot diagram (Lewis structure) of the two chosen elements.  Students must predict whether the two chosen elements will form an ionic or a covalent bond, and how many of each type of element will be needed to form the compound.  Then an animation shows what happens at the atomic level as the two elements combine.  It’s fantastic!!

They also have simulations that allow students to compare different elements of the periodic table on the basis of atomic radii, electron affinity, and ionization energy.  In doing so, students gain an understanding of the periodic trends seen in the periodic table.

Chem Collective

Chem Collective has many virtual labs on their website in the topics of stoichiometry, thermochemistry, kinetics, equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, solubility, electrochemistry (reduction/oxidation), properties of solutions, physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry.

In my experience, these virtual labs take a bit of getting used to, but they are top quality.  Students are placed in a virtual lab and have access to lab equipment and chemicals.  It’s up to them to choose what lab equipment to use and how to perform experiments to answer the problem they are given.

While I haven’t used these yet in the classroom, the simulations in which students need to determine the identity of unknown liquids and solids intrigue me. Identifying unknowns using chemistry often provides many “a-ha” moments for students. The fact that they can have the same experiences in a virtual lab that they would in a live class is fantastic.

Nova Elements

I recently came across a fun way for kids (of multiple ages) to explore the elements of the periodic table: Nova Elements.

Students can choose to explore the interactive periodic table and learn facts about each individual element. 

Then they can explore the elements in “real life” by investigating common items : a banana, DNA, a watch, a plastic cup of coffee, and a coffee tee shirt. 

Once an item is chosen, users are tasked with building the molecules that make up that item. For instance, for the banana, students must construct the molecules fructose, vitamin B6, and vitamin C using elements. But that’s not all.  They also have to build the atoms that make up those molecules, using their knowledge of atomic structure and the periodic table to “build” atoms of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, etc.  It’s a really fun way to explore chemistry.

Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry has a wealth of virtual activities and other handy resources available on their website.

For those of us who’ve taken chemistry, most of us remember performing acid/base titrations.  While it’s totally possible to perform acid/base titrations at home, a virtual lab may be the way to go.  The Royal Society of Chemistry has a really sharp virtual acid/base titration lab. You do need to register for a free account to access the lab.

This activity walks the student through the process of titration from start to finish.  Before they can perform the titration, they must watch short videos and answer questions to prove their understanding of acids and bases.  Then they prepare their solutions (using a virtual balance, beakers) and set up their apparatus.  The simulation walks them through calculating molar mass, concentrations, and other calculations.  This is really a top-notch virtual lab that gives students the feel of really doing the experiment themselves.

Physics/Physical Science Virtual Labs and Simulations

Here’s a shocker: physics doesn’t come as naturally to me as the life sciences.

Surprisingly enough, it was in my high school physics class during which time I began to appreciate how we could use mathematical formulas to explain things like heat transfer, forces, etc. and I had the first inkling that I might like science. Even still, historically physics doesn’t interest me as much as biology or chemistry.  I think it may be because I was taught the subject through textbooks rather than exploration. That’s not a mistake I plan to make with my students in my online physics class . 

Here are two of my favorite resources for all things physics.

Once again, quality, game-like simulations for topics in physics/physical science. Simulations are available for exploring light, radioactivity, circuits, electricity, capacitors, fluids, forces, gravity, lasers, projectiles, torque, vectors, waves, and MUCH more. In fact, I dare say that pHET has more simulations for physics than it has for any other subject.

The Physics Classroom

This website is an absolute gem! It hosts so many resources from tutorials on nearly every high school physics topic to videos, interactives, animations, and virtual labs. And believe it or not, this amazing site provides all of this for free!

Check out this video I recorded of some of my favorite virtual resources to use with my physics students.

With today’s technology at our disposal, it’s never been easier to give our kids an excellent science education. While hands-on labs are an awesome part of any students education, virtual labs and simulations offer a wonderful alternative.

Is there a virtual lab or simulation that I’ve left out? Please let me know in the comments and I’ll check it out!

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Looking for ways to deliver that “aha” moment in your high school biology, chemistry and physics lessons? Interactive science simulations can add a fresh level of discovery and insight to your regular hands-on science programs, and give students the opportunity to practice and learn at home when classroom equipment might not be at hand. Here are some handpicked online simulations to incorporate into your curriculum.

Molecular Workbench This site features hundreds of free simulations in biology, nanotechnology and more. Try the “Molecular Self-Assembly” simulation, in which students learn how nature constructs complex objects from molecules and how different conditions affect the behavior of molecules of various shapes.

Electric Motor Have students test and explore an interactive animation of an electric motor. The coil will rotate when a current flows around it. Click the arrow buttons to turn the current on and off. Reverse the direction of the current to observe its effect on the coil’s motion.

Convex/Concave Lens Students shift the position of a piece of glass, altering its shape to a convex or concave lens, which affects how beams of light through the glass will converge or diverge.

Google Sky Teach your students about astronomy while peering up at a virtual universe. For a stargazing activity, choose your location via Google Earth and switch to the “sky” view, which shows the stars as they might appear from your own backyard.

Sugar and Salt Solutions What happens when sugar and salt are added to water? Pour in sugar, shake in salt, and evaporate water to see the effects on concentration and conductivity. Zoom in to see how different sugar and salt compounds dissolve. Zoom in again to explore the role of water.

Plate Tectonics In this simulation from the University of Colorado, students can move mountains and create oceans! By changing the temperature, composition and thickness of tectonic plates, students can envision how the Earth’s surface moves and changes.

Frostbite Theater Don’t happen to have any liquid nitrogen or a Van de Graaff generator lying about in the classroom? These videos from Jefferson Lab will do the trick, and they’re funny too. Watch flowers shatter and balloons expand as if by magic! The collection also includes experiments that students can safely try in the classroom or at home.

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2020 is a strange year. With schools, universities, and museums socially distanced or fully online, there are fewer opportunities than usual to experience science experiments and demos. But LabXchange has you covered. This free platform features all kinds of science content, including virtual lab experiments and other interactive experiences.

It’s easy to get started. You can register for a free account or simply browse the library for free. Once on the site, you can search by featured subjects, content sources, and content types. Start with content type, and select Simulations. We’ve chosen five of our favorite virtual lab experiments to highlight. But with over 400 simulations and interactives to choose from, we hope you’ll explore on your own, too!

Micropipetting Solutions

This simulation allows you to learn how to use a micropipette in a virtual lab setting. Micropipetting, dispensing small volumes of liquid with a micropipette, is a fundamental lab technique. You’ll experience technical features of the equipment and get familiar with the layout of a lab. After performing the protocol, you’ll see the results of your actions compared to your predictions and ideal results to help you understand a range of outcomes!

Atom and Ion Builder

In this simulation, you’ll get the chance to build atoms. Through your observations, you’ll draw conclusions about which components alter the atomic number (protons), which components affect the overall charge of atoms (electrons), and which components affect the size of atoms (neutrons). These are concepts that are often challenging to visualize. We think you’ll enjoy adding protons and working your way through the periodic table of elements.  

Forces and Motion

This is a great simulation for understanding the basics of forces and motion, phenomena that we experience every day. Explore the forces at work when pulling against a cart or pushing a refrigerator, crate, or person. Create an applied force and see how it makes objects move, or change friction to see how it affects the motion of objects. Or play virtual tug of war!

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Many people think science is difficult and needs special equipment, but that’s not true.

Science can be explored at home using everyday materials. Everyone, especially children, naturally ask questions about the world around them, and science offers a structured way to find answers.

Misconceptions about the difficulty of science often stem from a lack of exposure to its fun and engaging side. Science can be as simple as observing nature, mixing ingredients or exploring the properties of objects. It’s not just for experts in white coats, but for everyone.

Don’t take my word for it. Below are three experiments that can be done at home with children who are primary school age and older.

Extract DNA from bananas

DNA is all the genetic information inside cells. Every living thing has DNA, including bananas.

Did you know you can extract DNA from banana cells?

What you need: ¼ ripe banana, Ziploc bag, salt, water, washing-up liquid, rubbing alcohol (from a pharmacy), coffee filter paper, stirrer.

What you do:

Place a pinch of salt into about 20ml of water in a cup.

Add the salty water to the Ziploc bag with a quarter of a banana and mash the banana up with the salty water inside the bag, using your hands. Mashing the banana separates out the banana cells. The salty water helps clump the DNA together.

Once the banana is mashed up well, pour the banana and salty water into a coffee filter (you can lay the filter in the cup you used to make the salty water). Filtering removes the big clumps of banana cells.

Once a few ml have filtered out, add a drop of washing-up liquid and swirl gently. Washing-up liquid breaks down the fats in the cell membranes which makes the DNA separate from the other parts of the cell.

Slowly add some rubbing alcohol (about 10ml) to the filtered solution. DNA is insoluble in alcohol, therefore the DNA will clump together away from the alcohol and float, making it easy to see.

DNA will start to precipitate out looking slightly cloudy and stringy. What you’re seeing is thousands of DNA strands – the strands are too small to be seen even with a normal microscope. Scientists use powerful equipment to see individual strands.

Learn how plants ‘drink’ water

What you need: celery stalks (with their leaves), glass or clear cup, water, food dye, camera.

• Fill the glass ¾ full with water and add 10 drops of food dye.
• Place a celery stalk into the glass of coloured water. Take a photograph of the celery.
• For two to three days, photograph the celery at the same time every day. Make sure you take a photograph at the very start of the experiment.

What happens and why?

All plants, such as celery, have vertical tubes that act like a transport system. These narrow tubes draw up water using a phenomenon known as capillarity.

Imagine you have a thin straw and you dip it into a glass of water. Have you ever noticed how the water climbs up the straw a little bit, even though you didn’t suck on it? This is because of capillarity.

In plants, capillarity helps move water from the roots to the leaves. Plants have tiny tubes inside them, like thin straws, called capillaries. The water sticks to the sides of these tubes and climbs up. In your experiment, you will see the food dye in the water make its way to the leaves.

Build a balloon-powered racecar

What you need: tape, scissors, two skewers, cardboard, four bottle caps, one straw, one balloon.

• Cut the cardboard to about 10cm long and 5cm wide. This will form the base of your car.
• Make holes in the centre of four bottle caps. These are your wheels.
• To make the axles insert the wooden skewers through the holes in the cap. You will need to cut the skewers to fit the width of the cardboard base, but leave room for the wheels.
• Secure the wheels to the skewers with tape.
• Attach the axles to the underside of the car base with tape, ensuring the wheels can spin freely.
• Insert a straw into the opening of a balloon and secure it with tape, ensuring there are no air leaks.
• Attach the other end of the straw to the top of the car base, positioning it so the balloon can inflate and deflate towards the back of the car. Secure the straw with tape.
• Inflate the balloon through the straw, pinch the straw to hold the air, place the car on a flat surface, then release the straw.

The inflated balloon stores potential energy when blown up. When the air is released, Newton’s third law of motion kicks into gear: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

As the air rushes out of the balloon (action), it pushes the car in the opposite direction (reaction). The escaping air propels the car forward, making it move across the surface.

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Professor Sapna Sarupria receives 2024 CoMSEF Impact Award

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (8/16/2024) – Department of Chemistry Professor Sapna Sarupria was recently awarded the 2024  CoMSEF Impact Award from the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF ) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award recognizes one person within 15 years of their highest degree for their outstanding research in computational molecular science and engineering each year. This highly competitive award represents the top computational chemists in the field. 

Sarupria is recognized for her numerous contributions to the advancement of computational methods for studying rare events. She is also recognized for her service to the broader research community and her dedicated advocacy for diversity and inclusivity in STEM and higher education.  She will deliver a presentation titled “Seeing the Invisible: In Nucleation (and in society)” during the CoMSEF Plenary Session at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting. CoMSEF Impact Award winners receive a plaque commemorating their accomplishment and an honorarium.

The Sarupria lab is called the SAMPEL lab (SAMPEL = Simulations and Advanced Methods for Probing Energy Landscapes). SAMPEL uses molecular simulations and statistical mechanics to study condensed phase phenomena. They also develop and apply rare event path sampling techniques. These techniques enable accessing processes that involve high free energy barriers and are typically inaccessible in straightforward molecular simulations. Current projects in the SAMPEL lab include ice nucleation, enzyme engineering, polyamide desalination membranes, enzymatic breakdown of polymers, and stabilization of vaccines. These projects are motivated by applications in energy, biology and sustainable technologies. In addition to leading the research efforts of SAMPEL lab, Sarupria is engaged in several education and equity efforts. She co-founded the NSF funded  Institute for Computational Molecular Science Education (i-CoMSE) and has led the organization of two workshops focused on Machine Learning in Molecular Science which were held at UMN – Twin Cities. She also co-organizes a virtual seminar series “ Statistical Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulations (STMS) ” that has been successfully running since 2020 and attracts over 80+ participants at every event! So far STMS has hosted 82 seminars with 164 speakers. Additionally, Sarupria is the Chair of the ACS PHYS Theory sub-division, elected trustee of the not-for-profit Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering ( CACHE ), and member-at-large of the Executive Board of the Program Committee (EBPC) of AIChE. She is also the co-Director of the recently established NSF-funded National Research Traineeship program (NRT) Data-Driven Discovery and Engineering from Atoms to Processes (3DEAP) housed in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UMN.

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Abstract: Business process simulation (BPS) is a versatile technique for estimating process performance across various scenarios. Traditionally, BPS approaches employ a control-flow-first perspective by enriching a process model with simulation parameters. Although such approaches can mimic the behavior of centrally orchestrated processes, such as those supported by workflow systems, current control-flow-first approaches cannot faithfully capture the dynamics of real-world processes that involve distinct resource behavior and decentralized decision-making. Recognizing this issue, this paper introduces AgentSimulator, a resource-first BPS approach that discovers a multi-agent system from an event log, modeling distinct resource behaviors and interaction patterns to simulate the underlying process. Our experiments show that AgentSimulator achieves state-of-the-art simulation accuracy with significantly lower computation times than existing approaches while providing high interpretability and adaptability to different types of process-execution scenarios.

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