Virtual Labs

The links on this page are all VIRTUAL LABS offered by several textbook companies. These labs give the students the adventure of laboratory experimentation without costly supplies, worrisome environmental and safety issues, or time-consuming clean up. They are from all different areas of science: Biology, Physics, Genetics, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Chemistry. Please feel free to try these at home! Students will be directed to specific labs in class but there are over 100 labs offered here!

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All Science Sites:

1. What strategies are involved in solving a science problem?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES01/ES01.html

2. Biotechnology: Independent and Dependent Variables

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_01/BL_01.html

3. How is a controlled experiment performed? Colored Clothing

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E16/E16.html

Virtual Lab Guide: How is a Controlled Experiment Performed? Colored Clothing E16

4. How are graphs used to represent data?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E01/E01.html

5. How is a controlled experiment performed? Rate of Photosynthesis

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS01/LS01.html

Chemistry Sites:

Separating Substances

Lab Instruction Sheet - Separating Substances: Metal Recycling

Using Units and Measurements

Lab Instruction Sheet - Using Units and Measurements

Identifying Elements

Lab Instruction Sheet - Identifying Elements Using Emission Spectrometry

Determining Bond Types

Determining an Empirical Formula

Lab Instruction Sheet - Determining an Empirical Formula

Determining Limiting Reactant

Lab Instruction Sheet - Determining Limiting Reactant and Percent Yield

Using the Ideal Gas Law

Investigating Aqueous Solutions

Exploring Radioactivity

Lab Instruction Sheet - Exploring Radioactivity

PhET Build An Atom 1.1.2

Interactive Periodic Table Game - How well do you know the periodic table?

Physical Science Sites:

Chemistry

6. How does thermal energy affect the state of a substance?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E17/E17.html

7. How can you simulate the radioactive half-life of an element?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E18/E18.html

8. The Periodic Table

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/periodic_table/index.html

9. How are physical and chemical changes distinguished?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E03/E03.html

10. How is an atom's structure related to its position on the periodic table?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E19/E19.html

11. How can a molecular model be built?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E02/E02.html

12. How is the flower color variation of Hydrangia related to the pH of the soil?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/BL04/BL04.html

13. How can you tell which elements form chemical bonds?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E20/E20.html

14. What properties do elements have?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E21/E21.html

15. What is the pH of common solutions?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E22/E22.html

16. What are some properties of water?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT10/CT10.html

17. How can models of carbon molecules be built?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E23/E23.html

18. How can the type of material be identified by it's physical and chemical properties?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/BL01/BL01.html

19. How do the ratios of elements affect the physical properties of an alloy?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS14/PS14.html

20. How is the solubility of a compound determined?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS15/PS15.html

21. What is a balanced chemical equation?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS16/PS16.html

22. How is the acidic concentration of a solution determined?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS17/PS17.html

Physics:

23. Which colors of the light spectrum are most important for plant growth?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS12/LS12.html

24. How does horizontal motion affect vertical motion?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS04/PS04.html

25. What is Newton's second law of motion?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E25/E25.html

26. Why do things float?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT01/CT01.html

27. Universal Gravitation

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/universal_gravitation/index.html

28. The Doppler Effect

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/doppler_effect/index.html

29. Kinetic Theory

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/kinetic_theory_phy/index.html

30. How is energy converted from one form to another?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E04/E04.html

31. What are the relationships between kinetic energy and potential energy?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS05/PS05.html

32. What is the relationship between work, force, and distance?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E13/E13.html

33. How do the insulation properties of various materials compare?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS06/PS06.html

34. What are some characteristics of waves?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E05/E05.html

35. How is an oscilloscope used to tune a musical instrument?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS18/PS18.html

36. What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT05/CT05.html

37. How are lenses used to correct vision?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E11/E11.html

38. How are voltage, current, and resistance related?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E14/E14.html

39. How does a transformer work?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E15/E15.html

40. How can a decision tree be used to generate binary numbers?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS23/PS23.html

41. How much energy is used in a house?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E10/E10.html

42. What is the relationship between distance, average speed, and time?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E10/E10.html

43. How is momentum conserved in a vehicle collision?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E24/E24.html

44. How are colors created?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS19/PS19.html

45. How does a generator work?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS22/PS22.html

46. What factors influence the pressure of gas in a container?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS08/PS08.html

47. What are the energy outputs of different types of fuel?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/PS13/PS13.html

Earth Science Sites:

48. How can minerals be identified by their properties?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES03/ES03.html

49. How are rocks classified?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES04/ES04.html

50. What are the advantages of alternative energy sources?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT13/CT13.html

51. How can locations in the United States be identified by their geographic features?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES05/ES05.html

52. How are materials from the Earth broken down?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E06/E06.html

53. How do glaciers shape the land?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES07/ES07.html

54. How do certain factors affect the erosion of soil by water?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES08/ES08.html

55. Where do most earthquake epicenters and volcanoes occur?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E27/E27.html

56. How do seismograph stations help determine an earthquake's epicenter?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES09/ES09.html

57. How does magma's composition affect an earthquake's eruption?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES10/ES10.html

58. How can fossil and rock data determine when an organism lived?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES12/ES12.html

59. What geologic evidence supports the existence of Pangaea?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES11/ES11.html

60. What was Earth like throughout Geologic Time?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES13/ES13.html

61. What is the structure of Earth's atmosphere?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES14/ES14.html

62. How do meteorologists predict the weather?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES15/ES15.html

63. How can locations be identified by their climate and topography?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES16/ES16.html

64. How are tides affected by phases of the moon?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES17/ES17.html

65. What are some characteristics of the ocean and the ocean floor?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES18/ES18.html

66. How much landfill space can be saved in a year by recycling?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES19/ES19.html

67. How can we conserve water?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES20/ES20.html

68. When is water safe to drink?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT04/CT04.html

69. Where in the US is acid rain the most severe?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT11/CT11.html

70. Which countries contribute the most to global air pollution?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS20/LS20.html

71. How does and artificial satellite stay in orbit?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES21/ES21.html

72. How do Earth and the moon interact to cause the moon's phases?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES22/ES22.html

73. How do planets in our solar system differ?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES23/ES23.html

74. What are the dimensions of the solar system?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E28/E28.html

75. How does the chemical composition of stars determine their classification?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES24/ES24.html

76. How does soil type affect the movement of ground water?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT02/CT02.html

77. How can water pollution be detected?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT03/CT03.html

Life Science Sites:

78. How do animal and plant cells work?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E08/E08.html

79. Under what conditions do cells gain or lose water?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS03/LS03.html

80. What is the role of DNA and RNA in protein synthesis?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS04/LS04.html

81. How are traits passed from parents to offspring?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E09/E09.html

82. How can natural selection be modeled?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS06/LS06.html

83. How are living things classified into groups?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E07/E07.html

84. What kills germs?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS08/LS08.html

85. How can microscopic protists and fungi be characterized?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS09/LS09.html

86. What is the life cycle of a simple plant?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS10/LS10.html

87. What are the functions of the parts of a flower?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS11/LS11.html

88. How do sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, and roundworms obtain food?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS13/LS13.html

89. How are mollusks, worms, arthropods, and echinoderms classified?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS14/LS14.html

90. How are fish adapted to their environment?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS15/LS15.html

91. How are birds adapted to their habitat?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS16/LS16.html

92. How do mealworms behave in response to various stimuli?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS17/LS17.html

93. What are the major bones in the human body?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS21/LS21.html

94. How can you design a healthful diet?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS22/LS22.html

95. What factors affect the likelihood of hypertension?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS23/LS23.html

96. How do the parts of the respiratory system work together?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS24/LS24.html

97. How does human hearing compare with that of other animals?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS25/LS25.html

98. What are the stages of development before birth?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS26/LS26.html

99. How does the body protect itself against foreign substances?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS27/LS27.html

100. How is energy transferred through a community of organisms?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT06/CT06.html

101. How do organisms react to changes in abiotic factors?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT08/CT08.html

102. What are the different types of land environments?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS19/LS19.html

103. How do introduced species affect the environment?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/CT09/CT09.html

104. How are the traits of parents inherited and expressed in offspring?

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/LS05/LS05.html

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