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71 active simulations · 1 archivedHAP
A Sieve Is Not a Kidney
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-patient-perspectives. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
1 block 2 sessions
BFH
Bioethics and the Belmont Report
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: innovation-proposal. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
4 blocks 5 sessions
GenD
Biofeedback and the Autonomic Nervous System
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: unit4-overview. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
2 blocks 4 sessions
BFH
Bioprinting a Scaffold
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: prototype-validation. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
4 blocks 4 sessions
BFH
Building a Plasmid: Recombinant DNA by Cut and Paste
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: molecular-workflow, transformation-gel.
4 blocks 4 sessions
GenD
Building Better Bodies: What a Scaffold Is Worth
Ohio Genetics of Disease 072130 section 5.8, Biotechnology Research and Experiments, taken from the standards array on the portal's tissue-engineering day-page in deep-gend-c.ts. PLTW Medical Interventions Unit 4 tissue-engineering benchmark. The exact myPLTW activity number is provisional pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Cancer Cell Morphology Under the Microscope
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: cancer-launch.
1 block 4 sessions
PBT
Class, or Identity?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-scene. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 1.1.3 The Traces We Leave Behind, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.1 Investigating the Scene, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
Counting a Virus by Plaque Assay
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-adventure-med. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 3.2.3 Going Un-Viral, in Unit 3 Lesson 3.2. Matched on content: the sim counts virus by plaque assay.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
Cow Eye Dissection: Anatomy of Vision
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-adventure-med. Aligns to PLTW HBS Project 3.2.4 More than Meets the Eye, in Unit 3 Lesson 3.2. Matched on content: the sim dissects the eye and that project is the eye project.
1 block 1 session
BFH
Design and Test: Prototyping
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: prototype-validation. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
2 blocks 4 sessions
GenD
Did the Resistance Actually Transfer?
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: culturing.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
DNA/RNA Microarray: Reading Gene Expression
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: gene-expression.
1 block 5 sessions
GenD
ELISA: Diagnosing a Mystery Infection
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: elisa-lab.
2 blocks 2 sessions
BFH
Forensic Autopsy: Determining Cause of Death
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: forensic-project.
3 blocks 4 sessions
HAP
Fracture Analysis: What a Shadow Can and Cannot Tell You
Ohio course 072040 (Human Anatomy and Physiology); WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-bones, PLTW HBS Unit 1.1 Bones. The exact myPLTW activity number is unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
From Sample to Bands
Medical Interventions, Unit 2: How to Screen What is In Your Genes, Lesson 2.1 Genetic Testing and Screening, Activity 2.1.2 Copying Our Genes. Alignment status verified in myPLTW (see src/lib/curriculum/pltw-alignment.ts). Ohio course code 072130 Genetics of Disease; standards 5.4 Molecular and Genetic Technology and 5.5 Laboratory SOPs, taken from the testing-methods lesson's own standards array.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Gene Therapy: Vectors, Targets, and Ethics
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: gene-therapy.
2 blocks 4 sessions
HAP
Getting Nervous: Sheep Brain Dissection
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-nervous. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 5 sessions
BFH
Global Health Metrics
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: public-health-product. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
4 blocks 4 sessions
GenD
Glow and Purify: Protein Purification
Ohio course 072130 (Genetics of Disease, taught as Medical Interventions). Lesson standards as declared on the portal route protein-purification: 072130 section 5.4 Molecular and Genetic Technology and section 5.5 Laboratory SOPs. The portal daily plan names myPLTW Activity 4.1.3 GFP Protein Purification; that activity number comes from the portal's own daily file and has not been checked against an authenticated myPLTW session.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
Heart-Lung Pluck: Thoracic Anatomy in Situ
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-respiratory. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 3.1.4 We Be-lung Together, in Unit 3 Lesson 3.1. Matched on content: the sim examines heart and lungs together in situ.
1 block 1 session
HAP
Hello Kidney: The Urinalysis Story
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-patient-perspectives. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 4.1.1 Hello Kidney, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.1, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
2 blocks 5 sessions
PBT
Histology: The Four Tissue Types
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-morgue. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 1.2.4 Histology, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.2 Master the Morgue, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
2 blocks 4 sessions
HAP
How Many Is Too Many?
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-adventure-med. Anchored to lesson step 5, connect one expedition pathogen risk such as contaminated water to a prevention step. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Is It Safe to Put In: the sterility release test
PLTW Medical Interventions, Unit 4 How to Prevail When Organs Fail, Lesson 4.4 Building a Better Body, Problem 4.4.2 Bionic Human. Aligned to the portal card for the tissue-engineering group. Runs as a simulation because no consumables were ordered for this course.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Is That Blood, or Barbecue Sauce?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-scene. PLTW Principles of Biomedical Science, Unit 1 Medical Investigation, Lesson 1.1 Investigating the Scene, Activity 1.1.4 Blood Evidence, which is the activity that runs the Kastle-Meyer presumptive test.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
It Takes Guts: Enzyme Action
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-patient-perspectives. Aligns to PLTW HBS Project 4.2.4 Break It Down, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.2. Matched on content: the sim is chemical digestion, enzymes breaking molecules down.
2 blocks 5 sessions
PBT
It Was Inert in the Beaker
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-innovation. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 4.1.5 Drug Design Lab, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.1, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12. The file name predates the content; this sim teaches enteric coating and disintegration at gastric versus intestinal pH, which is the drug design lab, not Activity 2.2.2 A Protein Problem.
1 block 2 sessions
PBT
It Worked in the Cup. Now What?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-innovation-synthesis. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 4.2.2 Under the Sea, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.2, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12. This is a supplemental John Hay lab, not represented as an official PLTW activity.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Making a Protein in Bacteria: GFP Transformation
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: cloning. Supplied lab source identifies MI Unit 4, Activity 4.1.2.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Medicine and Poison Are the Same Molecule
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-emergency. PLTW Principles of Biomedical Science, Unit 3 Outbreaks and Emergencies, Lesson 3.2 Emergency Response, Activity 3.2.2 Drug Delivery.
1 block 2 sessions
GenD
Minimally Invasive Surgery: Laparoscopic Skills
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: organ-transplant. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
1 block 1 session
HAP
One Fiber Twitches. A Muscle Doesn't.
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-muscles. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 1.2.1 Causes of Contraction, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.2. Matched on content: the sim adds ATP to a fiber to show what causes contraction.
1 block 2 sessions
HAP
Read the Band Pattern
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-patient-perspectives. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 4.1.4 Diagnose with DNA, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.1. Matched on content: the sim reads a restriction band pattern to reach a diagnosis.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Read the Count. Name What It Cannot See.
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-genetic-risk. PLTW Principles of Biomedical Science, Unit 2 Clinical Care, Lesson 2.2 Decoding a Diagnosis, Activity 2.2.4 Clues in the Chromosomes.
1 block 2 sessions
PBT
Read the Family. Name the Pattern, and Name the Limit.
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-genetic-risk. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 2.2.3 An Inheritance Story, in Unit 2 Lesson 2.2. Matched on content: the sim reads a family pedigree and names the inheritance pattern.
1 block 2 sessions
BFH
Reading the Health of Water
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: environmental-graph.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Same Light, Two Strains: the DNA repair plate set
PLTW Medical Interventions, Unit 3 How to Conquer Cancer, Lesson 3.2 Reducing Your Risk, Project 3.2.2 Skin Cancer Prevention. Confirmed against the myPLTW course capture in audit-output/pltw-verify and the portal alignment card for the cancer-treatment group. Runs as a simulation because the room has no ultraviolet source and no consumables were ordered.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Sheep Heart Gross Anatomy: Dissection
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-morgue. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 1.2.5 Gross Anatomy Examination, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.2 Master the Morgue, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
1 block 1 session
GenD
Signs vs Symptoms: Building a Case Definition
Medical Interventions, Unit 1 How to Fight Infection, Lesson 1.1 The Mystery Infection, Activity 1.1.2 Investigating an Outbreak. Ohio course code 072130 (Genetics of Disease is the same course under its Ohio name). Alignment status V in the portal's PLTW alignment table. The outbreak week carries no standards array in the curriculum engine, so this lab claims no ODE or WebXam code.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Sunscreen and UV: Protecting Yeast from Damage
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: cancer-launch. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
The Angle Is Not the Answer
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-motion-data. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 1.2.5 Joints in Motion, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.2, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
1 block 2 sessions
PBT
The Bellyache: Close It Honestly
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-diagnostic-workup. Method modeled on the Cleveland Clinic Dilemmas in Differential Diagnosis program. The patient and case are invented; no PLTW activity number is claimed.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
The Dose You Never Tested
Ohio course 072040 (Human Anatomy and Physiology). Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-challenge, the bound Wednesday investigation block. Anchored at the LESSON level only: PLTW publishes lesson-level names for HBS and no activity numbers, so no activity number and no activity title is asserted anywhere in this simulation. It is written to stand on its own science whether or not a matching PLTW activity or its kit is ever available.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
The Drug That Does Nothing to Most People
Ohio course 072130, Genetics of Disease, which is the Ohio name for PLTW Medical Interventions. PLTW Unit 3 How to Conquer Cancer, Lesson 3.4 Building a Better Cancer Treatment. Locally verified live curriculum route: cancer-treatment.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
The Glove That Failed
Shared across all four pathway courses. Ohio 072110 section 5.1 (PBS launch and orientation), 072040 section 5.5 (HBS launch and orientation), 072125 section 5.5 (BI launch and orientation), and 072130 section 5.5 (MI orientation and launch-safety). Canonical portal routes: the four orientation safety days plus pbs-launch, hbs-launch, bi-launch, and launch-safety. The exact myPLTW activity numbers remain unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
The Hour Nobody Wrote Down
Ohio course 072110, ODE 5.8 Biotechnology Research and Experiments and ODE 5.1 Handling, Preparation, Storage and Disposal, plus NGSS practices for planning investigations and analyzing data. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-infection, the outbreak investigation: line lists, epidemic curves, and identifying the agent.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
The Muscle Quit, or Did the Brain?
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-muscles. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
The Ruler You Make Yourself
Ohio course 072130, Genetics of Disease, which is the same course PLTW calls Medical Interventions. Unit 1 How to Fight Infection, Lesson 1.1 The Mystery Infection, Activity 1.1.5 ELISA, alignment status verified in src/lib/curriculum/pltw-alignment.ts. Canonical portal curriculum route: elisa-dilution, anchored to the Tuesday day-page 'Concentration and serial dilution'. Standards quoted verbatim from that lesson's own standards array: 072130 section 5.4 Molecular and Genetic Technology and section 5.5 Laboratory SOPs. No WebXam subcode is asserted, because none was opened for this build.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
The Score That Lies
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Supplemental John Hay lab attached to locally verified live curriculum route: unit4-overview. It is not represented as an official PLTW activity.
1 block 2 sessions
GenD
The Screen Said Yes
Ohio course 072130, Genetics of Disease, which is the same course PLTW calls Medical Interventions. Unit 2 How to Screen What is In Your Genes, Lesson 2.2 Our Genetic Future. Canonical portal curriculum route: unit2-synthesis. Standards used verbatim from that lesson: Genetics of Disease 072130 section 5.8, and NGSS argumentation from evidence. No lab-specific subcode and no WebXam code is asserted; the exact myPLTW activity number awaits Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
The Track Shows What, Not Who
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-endocrine. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review. This is a supplemental John Hay lab, not represented as an official PLTW activity.
2 blocks 2 sessions
BFH
The Tube That Did Not Light Up
PLTW Biomedical Innovation, Problem 4 Investigating Environmental Health, Activity 4.1.2 Analysis of Water Contamination. Verified against the sourced page-by-page extract of the live myPLTW Teacher Guide taken 2026-08-06, including the activity number, the activity title, the Edvotek Kit #951 five-tube coliform panel, the 0.8 mL volumes, the overnight 37 degree Celsius incubation and the color then ultraviolet then indole read order. Ohio course code is 072125 Biotechnology for Health and Disease, and outcomes are declared under that code.
2 blocks 2 sessions
HAP
What a Normal Breathing Test Cannot Tell You
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-respiratory. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 3.1.6 A Little TLC, in Unit 3 Lesson 3.1. Matched on content: TLC is total lung capacity and the sim is the breathing test.
1 block 2 sessions
PBT
What Does a Normal Reading Mean?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-clinical-comm. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 2.1.2 Vital Signs, in Unit 2 Lesson 2.1, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
1 block 2 sessions
HAP
What Does the Strip Actually See?
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-patient-perspectives. Aligns to PLTW HBS Project 4.1.5 Urine Trouble, in Unit 4 Lesson 4.1. Matched on content: the sim reads a urine dipstick.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
What Does the Zone Mean?
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: antibiotics.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
What Genotype Does a Taste Let You Claim?
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: genetic-testing.
1 block 2 sessions
BFH
What Is the Band Allowed to Mean?
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: environmental-exposure.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
What Is the Match Allowed to Mean?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-evidence-biomolecules. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 1.1.6 DNA Analysis, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.1 Investigating the Scene. Matched on content: the sim interprets what a gel match is allowed to mean, which is the analysis step after 1.1.5 DNA Evidence.
2 blocks 2 sessions
BFH
What Is the Recovery Number Really Telling You?
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: er-present-physiology, physiology-data, physiology-analysis.
1 block 2 sessions
HAP
What Is This Trace Allowed to Say?
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-cardio. The exact myPLTW activity number remains unconfirmed pending Manuel's authenticated myPLTW review.
1 block 2 sessions
HAP
Where in the Loop Is the Delay?
Ohio course 072040; WebXam EFT0. Canonical portal curriculum route: hbs-reflexes. Aligns to PLTW HBS Activity 2.1.6 Ready, Set, React!, in Unit 2 Lesson 2.1. Matched on content: the sim measures reaction time and locates the delay in the reflex loop.
1 block 2 sessions
BFH
Where Is the Line?
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: environmental-exposure, environmental-graph.
2 blocks 2 sessions
GenD
Who Does the Threshold Protect?
Ohio course 072130; WebXam EGC0. Locally verified live curriculum route: hearing-vaccine.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Who Is on the Plate?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-outbreak. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 3.1.5 Isolation, in Unit 3 Lesson 3.1, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
2 blocks 2 sessions
BFH
Who Was Patient Zero?
Ohio course 072125; WebXam EGB5. Locally verified live curriculum route: public-health-intervention.
1 block 2 sessions
HAP
Whose Bacteria Is That?
Ohio course 072040, Human Anatomy and Physiology, WebXam blueprint in src/lib/webxam.ts: Culturing 8.16 percent, Microbiology Testing and Technology 13.27 percent, Laboratory Standard Operational Procedures 4.08 percent. Standards carried by the hbs-immune lesson in deep-hbs-b.ts and used here: 072040 2.2 Evaluate Body Systems and 072040 5.3 Microbiology. 072040 5.6 Culturing is NOT carried by hbs-immune and is therefore not claimed on this sim. Canonical portal route: hbs-immune. The exact myPLTW activity association is a Manuel authenticated-review gate.
2 blocks 2 sessions
PBT
Whose DNA, and Does It Even Matter?
Ohio course 072110; WebXam EGA0. Canonical portal curriculum route: pbs-evidence-biomolecules. Aligns to PLTW PBS Activity 1.1.5 DNA Evidence, in Unit 1 Lesson 1.1 Investigating the Scene, confirmed in myPLTW on 2026-09-12.
1 block 2 sessions
BFH
You Cannot Ask a Crowd a Question
PLTW Biomedical Innovation, Problem 4 Investigating Environmental Health, unit 4.1. Sits between the two verified halves of Activity 4.1.2 Analysis of Water Contamination: the Edvotek Kit #951 coliform broth panel that returns a positive, and the Edvotek Kit #953 multiplex PCR that names a strain. Both halves are confirmed against the sourced myPLTW Teacher Guide extract of 2026-08-06. PLTW's own kit performs this isolation step for the class by supplying three pre-made cultures with names already on the labels, so this simulation asserts NO PLTW activity number and NO PLTW activity title for the plating, the streaking or the colony reading. Ohio course code is 072125 Biotechnology for Health and Disease, and outcomes are declared under that code.
2 blocks 2 sessions