Molecular Workbench 2.0

The Molecular Workbench (MW) software offers interactive, visual simulations that have been widely used to teach science (watch a movie about it). As a free, open-source and extensible modeling platform, it provides not only a powerful environment for creating interactive simulations (including molecular simulations, mechanical simulations and discrete-element simulations), but also an easy-to-use authoring tool for building user interfaces and writing guided activities. In addition, it is equipped with a report and assessment system for collecting data and measuring learning with models and simulations. All these functionalities are seamlessly integrated under a simple user interface, which makes the sum of many difficult tasks orders of magnitude easier than they used to be for educators. For more information, see Molecular Dynamics for Everyone. You can also find some existing activities at the Molecular Literacy Database.