Home | Practical Physics Welcome to the Practical Physics website Experiments can sharpen students' powers of observation, stimulate questions, and help develop new understanding and vocabulary. This website is for teachers of physics, enabling them to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom. We appreciate that some students also use the site, but we cannot provide answers to student questions. For more on our aims, see 'about the site'. in Public bookmarkswith analysisexperimental_designinquiryinstrumentationlabstools
VideoScience - Experiments for Science Classrooms | Science House Are you a teacher looking for exciting experiments for your classroom? Or a kid who wants to see what you can build from everyday items? These experiments from Science Education Advisor Dan Menelly (winner of the 2010 NSF Einstein Fellowship in Cyberinfrastructure) are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages. All the experiments use only low cost materials and have very little setup time. Also take a look at our virtual science toolkit of essential classroom items and recommended books for the science classroom. Do you have suggestions of experiments, books or classroom items we can add to this collection? Please leave a comment for us. Like these videos? in Public bookmarkswith excitingexperimentslabsvideovirtual
VIRTUAL GENETICS LAB The Virtual Genetics Lab (VGL) is a simulation of transmission genetics that approximates, as closely as possible, the hypothesis-testing environment of genetics research. In this lab, students cross hypothetical creatures and examine the progeny in order to determine the mechanism of inheritance of a particular trait. As in actual research, it is not possible to 'see the answer' - the student must decide for herself when she has collected enough data to be sure of her model. The goal is to have students understand the logic of genetic analysis - how one can use crosses to determine how a trait is inherited and reinforce their understanding of transmission genetics. From Univ of Montana, Bozeman in Public bookmarkswith crossesdominantflygeneticslabsmendelianmutationsrecessive