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This web site gives students a chance to be a detective. Students are often excited by all of the forensic science programs that are on the television. This gives them an opportunity to solve a theft by reading through witness interviews and examining a crime scene through point and click interaction.

This PhET Interactive simulations creates a fun game out of electric fields. The objective is to get the positive particle to go into a goal using only charged particles. Each particle either attracts or repels the objective particle and every particle modifies the existing field. This is a great trial and error method to introduce how field forces affect the area around them.

This PhET Interactive simulation allows students to investigate the index of reflection and refraction of light. This concept it difficult to illustrate due to the immense speed of light and this simulation slows it down nicely. Furthermore, this simulation gives students the ability to measure the light intensity, angle of reflection and refraction and analyze how light waves bend through lenses- all things that are both costly and difficult to measure in a lab setting.

6 Traits of Writing Poster that highlights each trait and what is included in each trait