Teaching with simulations

You do not need to surrender a week of teaching to run a useful simulation. This 75-minute plan protects access, decision time, and the debrief.

A simulation earns its place in your course when it fits the objective, works in a real classroom, and gives students evidence they can explain. Use this framework before you adopt.

Grade the leaderboard and a simulation can feel unfair. This rubric rewards what students can control, support with evidence, and explain.

The leaderboard gets attention. These 15 prompts turn that attention into a structured discussion of decisions, evidence, tradeoffs, adaptation, and transfer.