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SMMconstructor: Build Animated Models Online
Science Museum of MinnesotaAdd to list DetailsSMMconstructor is an online construction kit for building animated models. Based on the original construction kit called Sodaconstructor, this simulator lets you construct virtual models with a few...
Binary Balance
Oregon Museum of Science and IndustryAdd to list DetailsThis simulated balance beam illustrates binary mathematics. You have a set of weights and the goal is to match an unknown weight, but you only have weights that have mass 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16. You...
What am I?
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners examine nanoscale structures of common things. Learners flip between macro and nanoscale images of familiar objects to learn about some ways that nanotechnology is...
Information Hiding: Sharing Secrets
Computer Science UnpluggedAdd to list DetailsThis activity about cryptographic techniques illustrates a situation where information is shared, and yet none of it is revealed. A group of learners will calculate their average age without anyone...
Captchas: Online Test Separates Humans from Computers
Science Museum of MinnesotaAdd to list DetailsThis online activity lets learners explore how computer programs called "CAPTCHAS" work to test whether you are a human or a computer. Learners will be tested with a series of visual...
Game of Life: Computer Simulation of Evolution
Science Museum of MinnesotaAdd to list DetailsThe Game of Life is a simple computer simulation of what is called a "cellular automaton." Developed by the British mathematician John Conway in 1970, the program uses the cells of a grid...
Gallery of Communications
Oregon Museum of Science and IndustryAdd to list DetailsThis is a matching game where learners match examples of communications technologies with pictures of the people who used them. Look at images of hieroglyphs, runes and calligraphy and match them...
Change Blindness: Can You Spot the Changes?
Science Museum of MinnesotaAdd to list DetailsThis online activity lets learners discover to what extent they notice changes to an online image. The activity has two parts. In part one, learners look at a scene and try to notice what happens...