Both students and teachers have different challenges in the teaching and learning process of empirical sciences like: physics, chemistry and biology. For this reason, students need choices in how they learn different topics of these sciences. Either school systems or teachers need to find new and innovative ways to integrate theoretical and experimental activities. Also, by entering into ICT age, one of the first organizations that have envisaged basic changes is education and use of virtual laboratories as a new paradigm has developed this part. Although simulations and animations of virtual laboratories are no substitute for practical experiments, but they can provide a powerful supplement that helps students to visualize empirical sciences. In some cases Virtual Reality (VR) program is an alternative for realistic hands-on experimentation, especially in the case of physical phenomena that are neither easy to perceive nor to measure in usual experiments.
New teaching methods and learning activities via hands-on and virtual laboratories will be surpassing compared with sheer traditional teaching in the classroom. Empirical sciences are rapturous matters and hands-on and Virtual laboratories can become open doors for them. Students deserve better.
In this article we tried to mention the importance and necessarily of uses of hands-on and virtual laboratory in empirical sciences instruction especially in developing countries like Iran.