CAST: Resources & References
Modeling Tools
- AgentSheets Inc: www.agentsheets.com
- NetLogo (Northwestern University): http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo
- Vensim: www.vensim.com
- A comparison of the modeling tools from PSC
All Disciplines
- National Computational Science Education Consortium: www.ncsec.org
- Shodor: A National Resource for Computational Science Education: www.shodor.org
- Computational Science Education Reference Desk: www.shodor.org/refdesk/index.php
- Interactive courseware for science and mathematics: www.shodor.org/interactivate
- Maryland Virtual High School of Science and Mathematics: http://mvhs.mbhs.edu
- SciLinks: www.scilinks.org
- The Concord Consortim: www.concord.org
- Creative Learning Exchange: www.clexchange.org
- Prince Georges Community College – Instruction technology tools: http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/ITTools
- Hampton Roads Modeling and Simulation Initiative (MODSIM): http://modsim.wikispaces.com
- EdHeads science and math games and activities: http://www.edheads.org
- NOVA Interactives Archive: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hotscience
- Supercomputing 2008 (SC08) K12 Education Program wiki: http://sc08edprogk12.wikispaces.com/Resources
- HHMI Biointeractive site (great Virtual Labs): http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive
- Nobel Prize (educational games/simulations): http://www.nobelprize.org/educational
- i-Biology (not just biology, good list of available simulations): http://i-biology.net
- Interactive simulations (University of Colorado): http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new
Biology & Environmental Science
- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data: www.rcsb.org/pdb (protein structures)
- BioQuest: http://bioquest.org/bioinformatics/
- CELLS alive!: http://www.cellsalive.com
- Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry (John Wiley & Sons Publisher, Inc.): http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/040003790
Chemistry
- Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data: www.rcsb.org/pdb
- Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science: http://iclcs.illinois.edu/index.php
- Molecular visualization freeware (University of Massachusetts): www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol
- Chemistry molecular models (University of Wisconsin): www.uwsp.edu/chemistry/pdbs
- Modeling and visualization in chemistry (Prince Georges Community College):
- Molecular visualization with Chime: http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/struc_bond/structure_and_bonding.htm
- Modeling and Visualization in Chemistry Workshop (2003) http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/MCW
- Molecular Visualization in Chemistry workshop (2004) : http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/MolVis
- Chemistry Excelets: http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/chem_excelets.htm
- Chem Collective: http://chemcollective.org/home
- General chemistry interactive simulations (SUNY Oneonta): http://Employees.oneonta.edu/viningwj/sims/index.html
- Chemistry Geek: http://chemistrygeek.com
Earth & Space Science
- Virtual Earthquake: www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquake/
- Amazing Space STEM projects (Space Telescope Science Institute): http://amazing-space-stem.stsci.edu/
- Weather applets: http://profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/html5only.html
Materials Science
- Materials science Excelets (Prince Georges Community College): http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/matsci_excelets.htm
Mathematics
- The Math Forum (Drexel University): http://mathforum.org
- Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math: http://illuminations.nctm.org
- Interactive MS Excel workbooks (Framingham State University): http://www.framingham.edu/faculty/smabrouk/Interactive/index.htm
- GeoGebra – multi-platform mathematics software: www.geogebra.org
Physics
- Physlets (Davidson College): http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html
- PhET – Interactive simulations (University of Colorado): www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/index.html
- The Applet Collection (Michigan State University): http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/applets.htm
- Interactive Physlets (Grenfell campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland): www2.swgc.mun.ca/physics/physlets.html
- Physics simulations (Boston University): http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/classroom.html
- Funderstanding Roller Coaster game: http://www.funderstanding.com/coaster
- GOLEMS, 3D recreational physics simulator: http://golemgame.com
- Virtual Physics Laboratory (National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Physics): http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava
Financial support for the CAST program provided by: The Heinz Endowments, Frick Teachers Alumnae Fund of the Buhl Foundation, and The Grable Foundation.