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Simulations of scientific processes for middle and high school level content. Topics include semi-conductors and cellular respiration. Students can submit their assignments or print them out after they have completed working through a module. The website also provides options for teachers and students to create their own simulations. Free, open source tool.

Online games and simulations to explore topics like refugees, world hunger, and natural disasters. Great example of content in games being great because of its link to a high-level institution.

Intended to show how poverty is an obstacle to education, Ayiti is a simulation game set in Haiti. They player makes choices for a family of 5 regarding their work, schooling, and health. Of course, this process is more difficult than it should be - with disasters, disease, and lack of education plaguing every season. Upper elementary students would probably have the best experience with this game, but middle schoolers and up will probably be impressed because this life really isn't easy.

"Discover and apply principles of genetic inheritance by studying the inheritance patterns of fruit flies in a virtual environment. You will work on a virtual lab bench from which you can order fruit fly mutants from a web merchant, mate the flies in an incubator, anesthetize flies for observation, examine flies under a microscope, and analyze the data from offspring to determine patterns of inheritance. Your task is to propose hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze and interpret the data from these experiments."

Watch a video of a cow's eye dissection. Check out the interactive diagram. Read through the information about the parts of the eye. Learn about other activities or download instructions for your own real-life attempt at dissection.

Students work through virtual labs on energy budgets and future climate change. There are various tutorials explaining and illustrating scientific processes relating to the labs. Assessment exams can help the teacher see if the student is achieving the objectives of the lesson. Best for HS, but appropriate for some advanced MS classes or individuals.

Students work through virtual labs on magnitude and travel time. There are tutorials explaining and illustrating the concepts of lag time and latitude/longitude. Assessment exams can help the teacher see if the student is achieving the objectives of the lesson. Best for HS, but appropriate for some advanced MS classes or individuals.