Simulations and Games

This game has a series of questions that allow you to build pieces of farm equipment. Students in my SS class recently studies the Minoans, an agrarian civilization. This simulation would allow students to compare farming today with the way the Minoans farmed.

6-9.GWH.2.2.5 Evaluate ways in which technology influences human capacity to modify the physical environment.

Building in the past and present requires knowledge of balance proportional reasoning skills, and torque. This simulation allows students to experiment with these principles by placing and moving objects on a simple machine (a teeter totter).

A simulation demonstrating how sailors both in the past and present can use a sextant to navigate. My students recently finished a study about the novel Charlotte Doyle. In the novel, a girl from the 1800s uses a sextant to help navigate a ship across the Atlantic.

As part of their studies on ancient civilizations students can explore this virtual simulation of the Ancient Greek Temples. In preparation for a science activity where students would be asked what scientific and mathematic principles the Greeks would have needed to know about to build such elaborate structures.