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Splash virtual laboratory

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Description

Splash is a software-based virtual laboratory in which learners manipulate physical variables, conduct simulated experiments, and observe resulting phenomena.

Components

  • Splash virtual laboratory for buoyancy and Archimedes' principle: Splash is a virtual laboratory covering five topics: three on buoyancy (used to activate prior knowledge and familiarize learners) and two on Archimedes' principle. Learners design balls with chosen mass, volume and density, drop them in water-filled containers, and observe whether they "sink fully, are suspended, or float in water"; for Archimedes' principle, displaced water flows into containers displaying its mass and volume, or forces. The article notes virtual laboratories allow variables to take many values and are accurate, time- and cost-effective, and easily repeated. (Siswa van Riesen et al. (2018))

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Key Sources

  • Siswa van Riesen, Hannie Gijlers, Anjo Anjewierden, Ton de Jong. (2018). Supporting learners' experiment design. Education Tech Research Dev (2018) 66:475–491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-017-9568-4
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title Splash virtual laboratory
description Splash is a software-based virtual laboratory in which learners manipulate physical variables, conduct simulated experiments, and observe resulting phenomena.
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