"The Molecular Workbench (MW) software offers interactive, visual simulations that have been widely used to teach and learn science and engineering at all levels of science education. As a free, open-source and extensible modeling platform, it provides not only a powerful environment for creating interactive molecular models and performing dynamical simulations, but also an easy-to-use authoring tool for building user interfaces and writing guided activities.
The goal of the NSF-funded Molecular Workbench has been to provide a rich environment that makes the atomic level familiar, predictable, and connected with the macroscopic world, and to understand the effect of such an environment on student learning."
4 comments:
I have looked at this site and the program they offer are molecular based. Definitely useful for units such as fluids, heat and atoms and molecules.
Thanks Michael,
I found the site really useful and if you go to Molo, a related site, you can make use of lessons built around particular simulations. These are great too.
Carol
This is a really great site. You can easily help students visualize concepts and integrate it into a computers section.
Jill
I found this site really useful for teaching the particle theory of matter for grade 7. There are great interactives lessons.
Carol
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