PhET Blog

Teaching chemistry? To help you find the best simulation for teaching a specific topic in chemistry, we’ve put together this new preliminary guide that gives you a line up of specific simulations (and supplemental simulations) for topic areas in the general chemistry curriculum.

Want to share suggestions of other PhET sims you use for teaching chemistry topics? Let us know at the PhET Help Desk at phethelp@colorado.edu.

We will be upgrading the PhET servers on Friday, May 24 at 6:00 PM Mountain Daylight Time. We expect that the maintenance will last only 30 minutes. During this time, PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu) may experience periods of unavailability. If you experience persistent issues, please e-mail the PhET Help Desk at phethelp@colorado.edu.

Thanks for your patience during our system maintenance.

Have you received our May 2013 newsletter? Learn about two big initiatives that we’re working on over the summer: a new “Teach with PhET” companion website designed for teachers and other education professionals, and the development of the next-generation of PhET simulations.

Join us and support PhET. Your dollars will go directly to helping with these important improvements. Donate to PhET’s End-of-School Campaign today.

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A big Shout Out to Bernard LaCour who pointed out a bug in Fluid Pressure and Flow. As soon as we heard about the problem, we addressed the issue and posted the fix. We know how important it is to correct any issue with our simulations. So if you find a problem, please let us know through the PhET Help Desk at phethelp@colorado.edu.

Thank you Bernard!

With Spring finally here and rainbows soon to follow, explore PhET’s Bending Light simulation and learn why rainbows are ROYGBIV.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in Denver this past April. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with all the math teachers and having the opportunity to share the awesome free resource that is PhET! In addition, we were grateful for being a featured component of several talks, such as Mark Roddy’s discussion about Mathematizing the World. We look forward to the next NCTM Conference in New Orleans, April 9-12, 2014, and meeting even more great educators. We are excited to expand our suite of math simulations, so look for more coming soon!