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Simulations may be used by the teacher for illustration purposes or may be used by students to conduct a laboratory activity on the computer. Such laboratory simulations are typically used where the actual supplies may be expensive or unavailable, where the procedure is dangerous, or where it makes instructional sense to run the procedure or analysis many times and doing so in a classroom setting would be impractical and time consuming.
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McComas, W.F. (2014). Computer Simulations. In: McComas, W.F. (eds) The Language of Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-497-0_16
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