Category: Education

5 Tips for Guiding Students Through PHET and other Simulator Tools

If you’re a science teacher you know that there are simply some concepts that cannot be shared or visualized by students without the support of a simulation. Fortunately, there are MANY available simulator tools (some FREE and some subscription based) that can support your instructional efforts. <For an exploration of OTHER simulation tools, see this […]

ChatGPT for Teachers

The artificially intelligent chatbot known as ChatGPT has taken the world by storm.  If you haven’t heard of this newly emerged resource, take a look, as it is posed to revolutionize information generation as we know it! What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a remarkable, conversational language chatbot designed to engage in dialogue with users by […]

Modeling Waves

In our efforts to integrate Next Generation Science Standard MS-PS4-1, we had the BEST time building and exploring our own wave machine!! As a result, we created a Wave Machine!! The machine, constructed from relatively easy to obtain supplies, allowed us to visualize and model mechanical waves as we identified the patterns that make up […]