Problem

An important component of understanding how something works is being able to dissect it into its vital components.

Solution

A web site can lend the sense of taking something apart or understanding how something works.

Discussion

To optimize learning, a presentation should not be linear, like a slide show. Rather, visitors should be able to freely interact with objects, and potentially make mistakes.

Online visitors can experience interaction with objects using independent and dependent variables; modeling and altering reality; interactive appliances; and real-life experiments.