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PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum



Title PhET Sims Aligned to the Chemistry Curriculum
Description This document aligns an introductory or general chemistry curriculum with 47 PhET sims that can help teach various topics throughout the course. The topics and sub-topics are given for each sim, an sims are noted as "primary" (directly addressing the topic) or "supplemental" (supporting additional information for the topic). You can use this alignment as a reference guide when teaching with a few new sims each semester, or you can use them all at once!
Subject Chemistry
Level High School, Undergrad - Intro
Type Other
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords chemistry, curriculum
Simulation(s) Acid-Base Solutions (HTML5), Acid-Base Solutions, Alpha Decay, Atomic Interactions, Balancing Chemical Equations (HTML5), Balancing Chemical Equations, Balloons & Buoyancy, Balloons and Static Electricity (HTML5), Balloons and Static Electricity, Beer's Law Lab (HTML5), Beer's Law Lab, Bending Light (HTML5), Bending Light, Beta Decay, Blackbody Spectrum, Build a Molecule, Build an Atom (HTML5), Build an Atom, Charges and Fields, Collision Lab, Color Vision (HTML5), Color Vision, Concentration (HTML5), Concentration, Conductivity, Curve Fitting, Density, Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps, Energy Forms and Changes, Energy Skate Park, Gas Properties, The Greenhouse Effect, Models of the Hydrogen Atom, Isotopes and Atomic Mass, Membrane Channels, Microwaves, Molarity (HTML5), Molarity, Molecule Polarity, Molecule Shapes (HTML5), Molecule Shapes, Molecules and Light (HTML5), Molecules and Light, Nuclear Fission, pH Scale (HTML5), pH Scale, Photoelectric Effect, Quantum Wave Interference, Radioactive Dating Game, Reactants, Products and Leftovers (HTML5), Reactants, Products and Leftovers, Reactions & Rates, Reversible Reactions, Rutherford Scattering, Semiconductors, Salts & Solubility, States of Matter, Sugar and Salt Solutions, Vector Addition, Wave Interference

Author(s) Julia Chamberlain
Contact Email learnthinkteach@gmail.com
School / Organization PhET
Date submitted 7/15/14
Date updated 12/23/15

Comments

by kim.kostka@uwc.edu: This is a concise and easy-to-use collection of PhET sims for a complete chemistry curriculum. It saves me time and gives me a nice framework to build from. Trish   8/2/14

by mnchemistry: This is a simple guide that associates PhET sims to topics taught in chemistry courses. This saves the teacher valuable time so that he/she has more time to investigate how the particular sim will be used to advance student mastery of the defined learning objective. Amanda   6/1/15

A wonderful, concise, beautifully-made, easy-to-use chart!!! Thank you!!! James   11/13/15

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