A world of digital simulations awaits the sixth to twelfth grade life science instructor. The Concord Consortium hosts a variety of high-quality interactive simulations that can help students in middle and high school classrooms reach greater levels of understanding. The digital models include variables that students change using point-and-click tools. These changes lead to different model outcomes that create the perfect environment to prod students into thinking critically about why outcomes differ.

The range of topics spans everything from hydrogen bonding to ecosystems, including intermolecular attractions, protein folding, phase change, meiosis, heredity, transcription, cellular respiration, and population modeling, among many others. The interactive …