The Simulation Lab

Your students don't just learn about it — they live it.

Browser-based simulations, investigations, and interactive tools where students decide, investigate, and build — not just read. Across social studies, ELA, science and beyond, built by a real classroom teacher. No installation, no subscription.

Setup time: under 2 minutes Works in any browser Works in any LMS

Try it yourself

Our real simulation. See it in action.

This isn't a screenshot. Make a choice and watch the consequences move — exactly what your students will do.

thesimulationlabedu.com/demo/vietnam
Live — no login required

More interactive than a worksheet — and your students can't fake their way through a decision.

⤢ Open fullscreen

Why these aren't worksheets

Designed to be argued with, not filled out.

More interactive than a worksheet

Every screen demands a decision. Students branch the story, see consequences ripple through live metrics, and have to defend what they chose. There's nothing to skim and nothing to copy.

No installation, no accounts

It runs in any browser and drops straight into your LMS with one link. No logins to manage, no app to push to devices, no student data to collect. Setup time: under two minutes.

Built by a real classroom teacher

Every simulation was written, tested, and re-tested in real classrooms — not a content farm. The pacing, the prompts, and the debrief all assume a room full of teenagers and a single class period.

Flagship · New for APUSH & U.S. History

The interactive companion to The American Yawp.

Your class already reads the free, open U.S. History textbook. This is the part it was missing — every chapter becomes five things students do, and all of it auto-grades into your Google Sheet.

  • Five stations a chapter — reading checks, primary-source analysis, review games, writing, and a teacher grading cockpit.
  • AP & Regular built in, plus translate & read-aloud — one product for the whole room.
  • Vol 1 (To 1877) — all 15 chapters, free on TPT through June 30.
thesimulationlabedu.com/american-yawp
Live — no login required

How it works

Two minutes to set up. Then the grades come to you.

Every simulation is a real Google web app — students play with one link and no logins, and their work auto-saves into your Google Sheet.

  • 1Nothing to install. Buying drops a private copy into your Google Drive.
  • 2Share one link. Publish once, paste it into your LMS, and students play in any browser.
  • 3Grade from your Sheet. Decisions, writing, and scores land in your spreadsheet automatically.
See how it works →
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From real classrooms

The numbers teachers ask about.

4.9★
average rating from verified teacher reviews on Teachers Pay Teachers
TEACHER-RATED
10+
years teaching AP & social studies — every sim is built and refined in that classroom
CLASSROOM-TESTED
<2 min
from opening the link to students making their first decision
SETUP TIME

In their words

What teachers say.

★★★★★
I'm a huge fan of simulations and try to incorporate them whenever I can — and this one is by far the best I've used. Trying to get 11th graders to do anything near the end of the school year is like pulling teeth, but this investigation was something they took to easily. The delivery was engaging, and the conversations I heard while walking around the room were awesome.
Swanyxxiv N. Grade 11 · Social Studies on the JFK Assassination Investigation Verified on TPT
★★★★★
Students had fun comparing their journeys, and I liked that I could track their progress on the provided spreadsheet. It was certainly a level up from Google Form based simulations I've used in the past. I highly recommend!
Alexis H. 11th Grade · on McCarthyism
★★★★★
A great resource to have in class to support my lesson. Thank you!
Parker R. Grades 6–8 · on Reconstruction
★★★★★
Super easy to use to discuss the 2008 financial crisis for APUSH at the end of the year.
Victoria H. Grades 9–12 · on the 2008 Financial Crisis Sim

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