In this article we discuss the possible uses of NetLogo as an educational tool for High School and early-years undergraduate students. The paper is geared towards teachers from all disciplines who require students to problem solve, be quantitative and logical but want a project orientated platform to build or reinforce knowledge. The tools and methods herein were chosen specifically to be picked up by non-computer literate users. The goal is to highlight possible ways to excite students who perceive themselves to be weak mathematically through nontraditional computer-based exercises. In essence, we wish to encourage students to understand technology so they interact via easy coding rather than solely pushing buttons on an interface. Here we choose a model of toxoplasmosis gondii to demonstrate our ideas and show how scientific thinking and mathematical modeling can be used by the wider teaching community. Although these methods could be used for any age group or scholarly level, here we build our ideas around students who have seen high school algebra and may have studied one semester of differential calculus. Finally, we give some ideas of how NetLogo could be incorporated across the curriculum. Code for each module is available for download to assist teachers (Gammack, 2015).