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Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS



Title Alignment of PhET sims with NGSS
Description This is a first attempt to illustrate how the PhET sims align with NGSS. A group of teachers made this together summer of 2015.
Subject Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics
Level High School
Type Other
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords course
Simulation(s) Acid-Base Solutions (HTML5), Acid-Base Solutions, Alpha Decay, Area Builder (HTML5), Arithmetic (HTML5), Arithmetic, Atomic Interactions, Balancing Act (HTML5), Balancing Act, Balancing Chemical Equations (HTML5), Balancing Chemical Equations, Balloons & Buoyancy, Balloons and Static Electricity (HTML5), Balloons and Static Electricity, Band Structure, Battery-Resistor Circuit, Battery Voltage, Beer's Law Lab (HTML5), Beer's Law Lab, Bending Light (HTML5), Bending Light, Beta Decay, Blackbody Spectrum, Quantum Bound States, Build a Fraction, Build a Molecule, Build an Atom (HTML5), Build an Atom, Buoyancy, Calculus Grapher, Capacitor Lab, Charges and Fields, Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab, Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only), Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only), Virtual Lab, Collision Lab, Color Vision (HTML5), Color Vision, Concentration (HTML5), Concentration, Conductivity, Double Wells and Covalent Bonds, Curve Fitting, Davisson-Germer: Electron Diffraction, Density, Neon Lights & Other Discharge Lamps, Eating & Exercise, Electric Field of Dreams, Electric Field Hockey, Energy Forms and Changes, Energy Skate Park, Energy Skate Park: Basics (HTML5), Energy Skate Park: Basics, Equation Grapher, Estimation, Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab, Faraday's Law (HTML5), Faraday's Law, Fluid Pressure and Flow, Forces in 1 Dimension, Forces and Motion, Forces and Motion: Basics (HTML5), Forces and Motion: Basics, Fourier: Making Waves, Fraction Matcher (HTML5), Fraction Matcher, Fractions Intro, Friction (HTML5), Friction, Gas Properties, Gene Expression - The Basics, Gene Machine: The Lac Operon, Generator, Geometric Optics, Glaciers, Graphing Lines (HTML5), Graphing Lines, Gravity and Orbits, Gravity Force Lab (HTML5), Gravity Force Lab, The Greenhouse Effect, Models of the Hydrogen Atom, Isotopes and Atomic Mass, John Travoltage (HTML5), John Travoltage, Ladybug Motion 2D, Lasers, Least-Squares Regression (HTML5), Lunar Lander, Magnet and Compass, Magnets and Electromagnets, Masses & Springs, Maze Game, Membrane Channels, Microwaves, Molarity (HTML5), Molarity, Molecular Motors, Molecule Polarity, Molecule Shapes (HTML5), Molecule Shapes, Molecule Shapes: Basics (HTML5), Molecule Shapes: Basics, Molecules and Light (HTML5), Molecules and Light, Motion in 2D, The Moving Man, Simplified MRI, My Solar System, Natural Selection, Neuron, Normal Modes, Nuclear Fission, Ohm's Law (HTML5), Ohm's Law, Optical Quantum Control, Optical Tweezers and Applications, Pendulum Lab, pH Scale (HTML5), pH Scale, pH Scale: Basics (HTML5), Photoelectric Effect, Plate Tectonics, Plinko Probability, Projectile Motion, Quantum Tunneling and Wave Packets, Quantum Wave Interference, Radiating Charge, Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields, Radioactive Dating Game, Ramp: Forces and Motion, Reactants, Products and Leftovers (HTML5), Reactants, Products and Leftovers, Reactions & Rates, Resistance in a Wire (HTML5), Resistance in a Wire, Resonance, Reversible Reactions, Ladybug Revolution, Rutherford Scattering, Self-Driven Particle Model, Semiconductors, Signal Circuit, Salts & Solubility, Sound, States of Matter, States of Matter: Basics, Stern-Gerlach Experiment, Stretching DNA, Sugar and Salt Solutions, The Ramp, Torque, Under Pressure (HTML5), Under Pressure, Vector Addition, Wave Interference, Wave on a String (HTML5), Wave on a String

Author(s) Trish Loeblein
Contact Email patricia.loeblein@colorado.edu
School / Organization PhET
Date submitted 10/8/15
Date updated 12/23/15

Comments

Thank you, Trish Loeblein! You are a PhET rockstar! James   11/13/15

Thanks James. I want to thank a great team of teachers that helped us develop this summer of 2015. Trish   12/13/15

This is excellent. Thank you! matthew   1/28/16

Thank you for this correlation table....it is invaluable to me in planning the lessons and understanding how to go about working these simulations into my curriculum. Marsha   2/5/16

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