The Simulation Lab
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Carol Stream, Illinois, United States
About the store
We don't just sell a Google Doc or a PDF. We build interactive web experiences.
The Simulation Lab creates ready-to-deploy web applications that turn passive learning into active decision-making. Our students don't fill in blanks—they make choices, face consequences, and engage with content the way they engage with everything else in their digital lives.
Every product is built by a classroom teacher with 10+ years of experience in AP and dual-credit courses. These aren't theoretical EdTech concepts—they're tools I built for my own students, tested in real classrooms, and refined based on what actually works.
What makes us different:
Interactive simulations and choose-your-own-adventure experiences:
- Auto-saving student responses to YOUR Google Sheet
- One-click deployment (no coding required)
- Works on any device with a browser
⚡ Want a Custom Built Web App for Your Classroom? ⚡
Email thesimulationlabedu@gmail.com for pricing information.
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2008 Financial Crisis Simulation | APUSH & Economics CYOA Activity 11-12
Six POVs through the 2008 financial crisis: homebuyer, broker, structurer, Lehman trader, Treasury. 4 mini-games, primary-source dossiers, 3D risk web. Google Apps Script — no subscriptions! ─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISThis is not a slide deck on the 2008 crisis. It is a six-act interactive simulation that forces students into the seat of the people who actually made the decisions — the Stockton homebuyer signing a 2/28 ARM, the Orange County broker pushing stated-income loans for a 1.5x commi
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Economics , Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+17
APUSH Review Escape Room | Full AP US History Curriculum | Interactive 9 Periods
Interactive APUSH escape room: 9 College Board periods, 21 mini-games, full AP exam prep. Students restore tampered records as night-shift archivists. Runs on Google Apps Script. ═══════════════════════════════════════ 🏛️ WHY APUSH TEACHERS LOVE THIS═══════════════════════════════════════ You've tried review packets. You've tried Kahoot. You've tried streaming a documentary on the day before the exam and praying. None of it gets your students to ARGUE about a primary source — to actually do th
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+58
JFK Assassination Interactive Investigation | Digital US History Simulation App
Transform your US History classroom with this immersive, noir-themed interactive investigation where students analyze real evidence from the JFK assassination. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy. Perfect for APUSH, US History, and Government courses.🔍 WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISUnlike static PDF worksheets, this is a living web application that turns your students into investigators. They examine authentic primary sources, analyze forensic evid
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+17
Vietnam War Interactive Simulation | Choice-Based US History Activity | APUSH
Transform your US History classroom with this immersive interactive simulation where students experience the Vietnam War era through personal choices. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy. Perfect for APUSH, US History, and Modern World History. ⭐ WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS ⭐Unlike static PDF worksheets, this is a living web application that puts students inside the most divisive conflict of the 20th century. Students make real decisions with re
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+17
Reconstruction Simulation | Freedmen's Bureau APUSH Activity | Interactive CYOA
🎮 TRANSFORM YOUR RECONSTRUCTION UNIT with an immersive, choose-your-own-adventure simulation that puts students IN history! Students don't just learn about Reconstruction—they LIVE it. They make decisions as a Freedman, White Southern Planter, or Northern Carpetbagger, experiencing firsthand how race, class, and region shaped this pivotal era. Three-perspective Reconstruction simulation — students play freedman, planter, or carpetbagger across 42 scenes + 10 mini-games. No logins, no subscripti
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Black History, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
WHST.9-10.1
, WHST.9-10.1a
, WHST.9-10.1b
+36
AP Human Geography Review Game | Interactive Photo Map Challenge | Grades 9-12
Turn AP Human Geography review into a photo-map challenge: students study a real landscape, pin where it was taken, then decode it through four APHUG lenses. Auto-graded. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy.───────────────🌍 WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS───────────────Your students can label a map — but can they READ a landscape? GeoDetective drops them into 53 real photographs and makes them think like a geographer. Terraces, skylines, street grid
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Geography, Other (Social Studies), World History
Watergate Scandal Interactive Simulation | Nixon Investigation APUSH Activity
Interactive Watergate investigation where students analyze primary sources, decode the Smoking Gun tape, cross-examine Dean vs. Haldeman, and build a constitutional verdict against Nixon. 9 APUSH mini-games. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy. ─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISUnlike a PDF primary source packet, this is a living investigation. Students enter a digital case file as federal investigators assigned to Operation: Watergate, work throug
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+17
McCarthyism Interactive Simulation | HUAC Red Scare US History Activity | APUSH
Transform your APUSH classroom with this interactive McCarthyism simulation where students play as a Hollywood professional — screenwriter, actor, director, or composer — subpoenaed by HUAC in 1950. 30+ branching scenes, 8 mini-games, 7 unique endings, and 4 analytical writing prompts. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy.─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISUnlike a PDF reading packet, this is a living web application that puts students in the impos
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RI.6.1
, RI.6.2
, RI.6.3
+37
Urban Land Use Interactive Simulation | AP Human Geography Unit 6 City Planning
Students zone a living city — homes, factories, parks, transit — and a live engine scores density, sprawl, commute, and equity as they build. Solo or whole-class. No prep.───WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISMost Unit 6 lessons stop at "label the Burgess model." This one recalculates. Students paint land-use zones onto a city grid — homes, factories, parks, transit, a downtown core — and a live engine answers back in real time: population density, jobs–housing balance, commute, sprawl, public health, green
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Geography, Other (Social Studies)
Classic Psychology Case Studies | AP Psychology Memory Investigation 9-12
AP Psychology's five most-taught case studies, finally interactive: examine the evidence, work a hands-on lab per case, run an ethics review, write a graded synthesis. No installs.───WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISMost psychology lessons hand students a list of classic studies to memorize — Phineas Gage had a rod through his head, H.M. couldn't form memories, Little Albert got scared of a rat. This makes them the consulting neuropsychologist instead. They open a real patient file, read the medical record
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Health, Other (Social Studies), Psychology
CCSS
WHST.11-12.1
, WHST.11-12.1a
, WHST.11-12.1b
+17
AP Lang Synthesis Essay Simulator | Interactive Q1 FRQ Writing Tool + Rubric
Turn the dreaded AP Lang synthesis essay into a timed simulation: read sources, stake a thesis, build a board, and draft for an instant rubric score. No accounts, no grading. ─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISThe synthesis essay (Q1) is the most-dreaded question on the AP Lang exam — and the hardest to grade for a class of 120. This is not a worksheet or a slide deck. It is a fully interactive web app that drops each student into a timed "war room": a packet of seven real, debatable sources, a 15-minu
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays
CCSS
RI.9-10.1
, RI.9-10.2
, RI.9-10.3
+82
Black Death Simulation | Plague 1347 Interactive AP World History Activity 8-12
Govern a city through the Black Death in this interactive simulation — students make life-or-death decisions and reach 1 of 5 historical outcomes. No logins, no subscriptions.─── 🏛️WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS🏛️Most Black Death resources hand students a reading and a worksheet. This puts them in the council chamber of Marenza — a Mediterranean port-republic — in the year the pestilence arrives, and asks: what do you do? Every decision moves five competing pressures, and there is no clean win. Thi
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
European History, Other (Social Studies), World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+27
Ultimate Peer Editing Tool | Essay Review for ANY Rubric | Google Sheets™
⭐ STOP GRADING EVERY ESSAY YOURSELF ⭐Let your students learn from each other with this interactive peer editing web app! Students log in, receive a random classmate's essay, highlight key elements, score each rubric category, and provide constructive feedback—all saved automatically to YOUR Google Sheet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WORKS FOR ANY CLASS THAT ASSIGNS ESSAYS:- AP US History (LEQ, DBQ) - AP World History / AP Euro - AP English Language & Literature - Standard English/ELA c
1st - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
For All Subjects, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository
CCSS
W.6.1
, W.6.1b
, W.6.1c
+131
Underground Railroad Simulation | Interactive Escape CYOA US History Activity
Transform your US History classroom with this interactive Underground Railroad simulation where students become freedom seekers escaping slavery in 1852. 30+ branching scenes, 8 mini-games, 12 unique endings, companion and stat systems, and primary source analysis. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy. ─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISThis is not a reading packet. It is a fully interactive web application that puts students in the shoes of a freedo
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Black History, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+17
Great Depression Interactive Simulation | Choice-Based Activity | APUSH
⭐ WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISUnlike static PDF worksheets, this is a living web application where students LIVE through the Great Depression as one of SIX real Americans — making daily survival decisions that defined the era. Students don't just learn about the Depression. They experience the impossible choices — sell the family farm or take on debt? Cross a picket line or go hungry? Send a child to work or ride the rails looking for a job? ✅ 6 unique character paths — Factory worker in Detroit, Du
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+17
Manhattan Project Simulation | Race to the Atomic Bomb APUSH Activity 9-12
Put students inside the race to build the atomic bomb in this interactive Manhattan Project simulation — branching choices, 5 endings, 3 iPad-safe mini-games. No logins, no installs.───WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISMost Manhattan Project lessons hand students a timeline of names and dates to memorize — Einstein's letter, Oak Ridge, Oppenheimer, Trinity. This one makes them live it. Students step into the role of a War Department liaison to the Manhattan Engineer District and follow the bomb from a 1939
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+89
Iran-Contra Affair Interactive Simulation | APUSH Cold War Investigation 9-12
Students become junior counsel to the Tower Commission in this interactive digital simulation: analyze 6 declassified Iran-Contra documents, trace the diversion, map the arms deals, and argue what the President knew. ─────────────── 🔍 WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISMost Iran-Contra lessons hand students a textbook paragraph and a worksheet. This flips that: a full interactive investigation where students work the actual evidence and reach their own verdict — no answer key, no spoon-feeding. ✔ Student
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+27
Gerrymandering & Redistricting Simulation | Interactive AP Government Activity
Students digitally redraw congressional districts and watch results recalculate live—the gerrymandering lesson no worksheet can teach. For AP Gov Unit 2. No accounts, no installs. ─────────────── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISEvery gerrymandering worksheet asks students to color a map. None of them can show what happens next. This one does. Students drag district lines across a grid of precincts and the results recalculate instantly — the same voters producing a fair Congress, a one-party sweep, or a
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Civics, Government, Other (Social Studies)
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+17
My Lai Massacre Simulation | Vietnam War DBQ Investigation | APUSH Grades 9-12
Interactive My Lai Massacre investigation: students become CID agents who examine the photographic record, interrogate witnesses, apply the Geneva Convention, and render a written verdict. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy.─── ⭐ WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS⭐ This is not a worksheet and not a slide deck. It is a cinematic web application that seats your students at a Criminal Investigation Division desk and asks them to do what real historia
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+56
Columbian Exchange Simulation | Aztec Conquest APUSH Period 1 Tlaxcala 1519
Dual-perspective Columbian Exchange simulation: Tlaxcalan noble or Spanish friar, 1519–1525. Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no accounts, total data privacy. ─── WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISAPUSH Period 1 usually gets taught through textbook narrative — students read about Cortés and the Aztec collapse from outside, never inside the decisions. This is the first simulation that puts them on BOTH sides: a Tlaxcalan noble in the council building at Ocotelolco AND a Spanish friar working under enco
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+27
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About the store
Experience
We don't just sell a Google Doc or a PDF. We build interactive web experiences.
The Simulation Lab creates ready-to-deploy web applications that turn passive learning into active decision-making. Our students don't fill in blanks—they make choices, face consequences, and engage with content the way they engage with everything else in their digital lives.
Every product is built by a classroom teacher with 10+ years of experience in AP and dual-credit courses. These aren't theoretical EdTech concepts—they're tools I built for my own students, tested in real classrooms, and refined based on what actually works.
What makes us different:
Interactive simulations and choose-your-own-adventure experiences:
- Auto-saving student responses to YOUR Google Sheet
- One-click deployment (no coding required)
- Works on any device with a browser
⚡ Want a Custom Built Web App for Your Classroom? ⚡
Email thesimulationlabedu@gmail.com for pricing information.
My own education history
BA and MA+40 in Illinois and Arizona universities.
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