Follow water, heat and carbon through the world around you: fill a rain tank, flood a catchment, warm a city and close the loop on waste.
7 live simulators
Change latitude, date, time of day, panel tilt and orientation, and see the sun's path across the sky, the angle at which sunlight strikes the panel, and idealized daily energy.
Class 6–8 · Class 11–12Class 6 Social Science: Earth's motions and seasons; Class 11 Geography: Solar Radiation, Heat Balance and Temperature
Launch simulator: Solar Panel Geometry
Choose wall and roof insulation, glazing and air-tightness for a two-storey house, set the weather, and compare U-values, the temperature profile through the wall, and idealized heat loss.
Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Physics: Thermal Properties of Matter (conduction)
Launch simulator: Building Insulation
Set rainfall pattern, roof size, tank capacity and daily use, then run a year of daily water balance and track tank level, overflow and shortages.
Class 6–8 · Class 9–10Class 10 Geography: Water Resources (rainwater harvesting)
Launch simulator: Rainwater Harvesting
Change storm size and land cover for a small catchment, and compare simplified runoff curves and flood hydrographs with the SCS curve number method.
Class 9–10 · College & beyondClass 10 Geography: Water Resources
Launch simulator: Watershed Runoff
Run a four-reservoir carbon cycle box model from 1850 to 2200, change future emissions and exchange rates, and track atmospheric CO₂ and where the emitted carbon goes.
Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Geography: World Climate and Climate Change
Launch simulator: Carbon Cycle
Change a city surface's colour, shade, vegetation and heat storage, and compare an illustrative surface energy balance and day–night temperatures with a grass park.
Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Geography: Solar Radiation, Heat Balance and Temperature
Launch simulator: Urban Heat
Follow 100 tonnes of packaging through collection, sorting and reprocessing, change collection, contamination, sorting accuracy and purity limits, and track how much becomes new material over repeated cycles.
Class 6–8 · Class 9–10Class 10 Science: Our Environment (managing waste)
Launch simulator: Recycling SystemsSee the planned labs below, or pick another topic.