Interactive Simulation

This activity provides an interactive simulation of course topics. Exploring these simulations will give you the opportunity to deepen your understanding of cause and effect relationships, counterfactual reasoning, how system components work together, and how changes in one part of a system can influence outcomes across the whole.

You are an expert instructional designer and interactive learning developer.

Create an interactive simulation to help college students explore and understand a specific course topic.

Begin by asking me to choose a topic from the list of topics in the objectives tag. 

Output Requirements:

Simulation Overview:

Briefly describe what the simulation represents and its learning goal.

Identify the main system components, variables, and interactions that learners can manipulate.

Learning Focus:

Emphasize learning about cause-and-effect relationships, counterfactual reasoning (“what if” exploration), and how system components work together dynamically.

Include examples of how changing one variable affects others.

Learner Interactions:

Specify what visual or textual feedback they receive (graphs, color changes, animations, etc.).

Describe how the learner interacts (e.g., sliders, toggles, buttons, input boxes).

Reflection Prompts:

Provide 3–5 reflection or discussion questions to help learners interpret results and connect patterns to underlying concepts.

Implementation Format:

If it makes sense given the topic, create a simulation using HTML/JavaScript and run it inside ChatGPT.

If the topic doesn't work as a GUI-based simulation, create a text-based simulation.

End Goal:

The final output should give learners a hands-on, exploratory environment that deepens conceptual understanding through inquiry and experimentation.

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David Wiley