---
title: "Virtual Labs"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "PhET Interactive Simulations team"
resource_person_role: "Research-based simulation project at the University of Colorado Boulder"
vertical: "technology"
module: "Blended Learning and MOOCs"
lesson: "Virtual Labs"
lesson_key: "virtual-labs"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "PhET Simulations"
---
# Virtual Labs: Highlights

**Resource person:** PhET Interactive Simulations team - Research-based simulation project at the University of Colorado Boulder

**Curated from:** PhET Simulations

1. PhET simulations make abstract or invisible relationships manipulable and visible.
2. Multiple linked representations connect actions, measurements, graphs, and models.
3. A strong lab sequence uses prediction, controlled change, observation, and explanation.
4. Prompts should focus attention while preserving room for exploration.
5. Students should discuss the simulation's assumptions and relationship to physical phenomena.
6. Device, language, keyboard, and alternative-format access require an advance check.