1. Bruce Drummond, David Lu, John Widmer

2.  Benefits  Visual learning  Experiential ‘hands-on’ learning  Promotes exploring – safely  Perform dangerous experiments  Cons  You will need computers  You will need software

3.  Science Domain  Level 3 onwards : students learning to design experiments  Thinking processes  Reasoning, processing and inquiry  ICT  ICT for Visual Thinking

4.  More on Science Enquiry skills and less on content  Sims allow students to engage in open learning activities safely and cheaply

5.  Using a webpage allows dynamic updates to be made  They should be concise and simple to allow students to work independently  If they continue to ask for help – is the webpage too complex or they lack independence?

6.  You can of course use it as a demonstration