The University of Colorado at Boulder provides an excellent website for Interactive Simulations and Tutorials for Physics Education. The PhET site boasts more than 75 million simulations that can be delivered online to teachers and students.
In my Conceptual Physics classroom I use the the tutorial simulation for Electrical Circuits.
Demonstrating both series and parallel circuits on the SMART Board is very easy.
Students can then use tablets or clasroom computers to build their own circuits. This tutorial allows students to understand a wide variety of characteristics of circuits. The tutorial allows students to build circuits in a variety of ways including switches, wires, batteries and and light bulbs, as well as, inductors, resistors and capacitors.
Once students complete their circuits, they can utilize a series of built in tools including current and voltage charts, ammeter, voltmeter and a stopwatch to analyze their completed circuits.
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