15 Apps to Keep Your Physics Lessons Engaging
In today’s technological society, the Internet provides access to vast stores of knowledge. As a result, teachers should always look to utilize new applications to help make their physics lessons captivating and engaging to students. Listed below are fifteen of the engaging apps that you should add to your toolbox.
15 physics tools for an interactive classroom
1. VMS Velocity and Acceleration Animation
This unique physics app provides teachers with the opportunity to depict the physics involved in motion. The handy animations will help you describe and explain it as they illustrate the complicated elements involved with velocity and acceleration in an easy-to-understand graphic!
2. Audio Sky Tours - Astronomy
Everyone loves gazing at stars in the sky, and this application will help you teach your students about the physics behind stars along with the history involved in astronomy.
3. Bridge Constructor Playground
Gone are the days of building popsicle bridges. Instead, with this awesome app, you can allow your students to try their hand at a career in constructing bridges. With various challenges, this app will give your students hands-on experience with practical elements of physics.
4. Newtonium Physics Simulator
This physics classroom app illustrates and portrays various questions posed by physicists. With an engaging simulator, the app will help keep your students entertained while they work to solve complex problems.
5. PhysicsOne Gravity
This educational physics app will enable your students to begin creating and then investigate several lab experiments that involve gravity and its effects. For example, hands-on experiments allow students to explore a laboratory before beginning to study gravity.
6. Crazy Machines
Serving as one of the most unique applications on this list, “crazy machines” grants students the opportunity to create experiments and test a variety of problems that are related to science and physics, in this physics experiment simulation app. They have a mad professor as their guide, this app promises to encourage students to delve into the convoluted world of physics.
7. Coaster Physics
By combining the excitement of riding on a roller coaster along with the physics involved in creating a safe ride, this app allows students to begin constructing their own roller coaster from the ground up. As it enables students to create and then test their imaginative builds, this app will help keep students engrossed in understanding the fundamental physics behind roller coasters.
8. SimpleRockets
Similar to Coaster Physics, this physics learning game grants students the ability to test whether they are fit to become a rocket scientist. By allowing students to construct their own rocket and several systems that power it, this app explains the physics behind space travel in an easy-to-understand and fun interface.
9. Exploriments: Electricity
Enabling students to explore the physics involved in electrical circuits, this app will help explain the complicated processes involved in powering houses, cars, as well as smaller, simple devices. Students can mess around with switches, which will help them begin to understand the role physics plays in controlling circuits.
10. Mechanics & Physics By WAGmob
As one of the most detailed apps on the list, this informative physics app provides students with access to a variety of summary notes and physics articles. Furthermore, this app also includes various study cards and tests that will help your students self-study. By implementing this app in your classroom, you can begin to help your students understand the basic, core aspects of physics.
11. Cut the rope
“Cut the Rope” is a fun physics game that’s also educational. In the game, players solve puzzles by cutting ropes to move candies and objects around. Players learn about important physics concepts like gravity and motion by doing this. The game gets more challenging as players progress, which helps them develop problem-solving skills. Players learn by trying different things and seeing what works best. Even though “Cut the Rope” doesn’t directly teach physics, it helps players understand these concepts in a fun way. Overall, it’s an excellent game for learning while having fun!
12. Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab
Who wouldn’t want to explore Edison’s abandoned laboratory? This physics teaching app allows you to do so while explaining the science behind his early experiments. It’s an animated journey full of fun, surprises, and games.
13. BookWidgets
With BookWidgets you can create interactive exercises. Yes, even for physics. Take a look at these fun physics examples, made with BookWidgets in this blog post. You can use the worksheet widget when students are experimenting. That way, they can easily report to the teacher.
14. Brain It On! Physics Puzzles
Challenging you to solve various puzzles, this app forces students to utilize their knowledge of physics to solve the complex problems. The “puzzle” aspect makes it fun and engaging.
15. Complete Physics
With more than fifteen different topics covered and thoroughly discussed in this app, it grants students with access to answers to a variety of questions and complicated ideas. Furthermore, this app will allow students to write notes, highlight materials, and return to their questions.
By utilizing applications in your classroom, you can start creating physics lessons that will inform your students while keeping them interested. There are a lot of other ways to make this enjoyable like these 25 ready-to-use lesson ideas
This article was proudly supplied by Point to Point Education, the teaching overseas experts. We hope it helped keep your Physics lessons more engaging!