Physics Sketchpad is a free Android app that physics teachers may find useful. The app, which is still in beta, provides a simple interface creating simulations of the effects of global gravity on object and gravity between objects. The app also allows users to create collisions to view their effects on objects. The simulations that you create can be saved in your Physics Sketchpad notebooks. Sharing notebooks is a feature advertised for future development.
A flight simulator for teachers, simSchool provides challenging teaching scenarios that develop the knowledge and skills needed for classroom success. Research has indicated that training time on the
simulator makes a significant difference in a teacher's self-efficacy and sense of the focus of control.
The OSP Collection 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. Browse the OSP simulations or learn more about our tools and curriculum pieces below.
"OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility (the Hypergrid) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from an account on a 'home' OpenSimulator installation."
Through simSchool, pre and in-service teachers, instructors, administrators, and others experience and improve knowledge and confidence in:
classroom management techniques
understanding diverse learning styles & behaviors
analyzing student information and data
task design and implementation
much more.....
