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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AP Human Geography Urban Models | Interactive City-Building Simulation | Unit 6
MINECRAFT FOR AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHYTransform AP Human Geography Unit 6: students build a city block-by-block in first-person 3D, then a Survey Drone scores which urban model they actually built — with evidence from their own blocks.─────────────────────────────WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS─────────────────────────────Topic 6.5 is usually a diagram to memorize. Here, students BUILD the models — and an analyzer proves which one they made, using the real geometry of their city.✅ Students build Burgess, Hoyt,
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Geography, Other (Social Studies)
Emancipation Proclamation Simulation | Lincoln Civil War Interactive APUSH 8-12
Step into Lincoln's chair: students decide when and how to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in this interactive APUSH simulation. No logins, no subscriptions, complete data privacy.───WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISMost Emancipation Proclamation resources hand students the finished document and a worksheet. This puts them in Lincoln's chair in the summer of 1862 — the war going badly, the Proclamation already written and locked in a drawer — and asks the question history actually asked: not WHETHER, b
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
+89
Ancient Egypt Simulation | Who Built the Pyramids? Interactive Investigation
Transform your ancient Egypt unit with this interactive investigation where students become a scribe on the real 2013 papyrus logbook that rewrote how we know who built the Great Pyramid. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy.───────────────────────────────WHY TEACHERS LOVE THISEvery student arrives already "knowing" two wrong answers: aliens, or slave labor under the whip. This interactive investigation doesn't just correct them — it hands st
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Other (Social Studies), World History
CCSS
RH.6-8.1
, RH.6-8.2
, RH.6-8.3
+89
Congress of Vienna 1815 | AP European History Simulation & Interactive DBQ
Your AP Euro students become Metternich, Talleyrand, or Castlereagh and redraw the map of Europe after Napoleon, deal by deal on a live map. No subscriptions, no student accounts.───────────────────────────────WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS───────────────────────────────Your students can list "the four principles of the Congress of Vienna." They cannot feel the trade-off between grabbing Saxony for your own power and keeping the whole peace from collapsing into the next war. This simulation makes them f
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Geography, Other (Social Studies), World History
CCSS
RH.9-10.1
, RH.9-10.2
, RH.9-10.3
+58
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
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
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
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
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
John Brown Simulation | Harpers Ferry Raid Interactive Civil War Activity APUSH
Students become the Tribunal of History and decide: was John Brown a visionary or a zealot? Interactive Harpers Ferry simulation with 6 investigations and 6 primary sources. Built on Google Apps Script — no subscriptions, no student accounts, complete data privacy.───WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS"Was John Brown a hero or a terrorist?" is one of the best questions in the entire US History course — and it usually gets answered by a worksheet. This is different. Students don't read about the debate; they
9th - 12th
Government, Other (Social Studies), U.S. 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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