Informal Learning Resources

General Science

pHET Simulations-Science, Math, Engineering, and More
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations

Science Snacks-from the Exploratorium
Projects and Activities You Can Do
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks
https://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/activities

Sound Engineering Online Labs
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/sound-engineering-online-labs.html

Concord Consortium-STEM Models and Simulations

• https://concord.org/our-work/research-projects/#stem-models-simulations

Our computational models, based on scientific first principles, make the world’s invisible phenomena visible and explorable. Students can peer into the details of chemical reactions, manipulate the unseeable world of genes and DNA, compress centuries into seconds to unlock evolution’s gradual mysteries, or watch Earth’s plates create massive landforms. From our groundbreaking Molecular Workbench to our popular Geniverse suite of dragon genetics software, we’ve been creating scientifically accurate virtual labs from our start.

• Energy 3D
  https://energy.concord.org/energy3d/
• Molecular Workbench
  http://mw.concord.org/modeler/

ifl Science
https://www.iflscience.com/
Very cool science demos!

Minute Physics
https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ~Rutherford via Einstein?

Design Squad
https://pbskids.org/designsquad/build/
Design Squad Global empowers middle school kids to solve real-world problems and understand the impact of engineering in a global context. Refreshed weekly with challenges, videos, and activities, the website is one of the only places on the web where kids can share their engineering ideas with other kids.