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Thanks Wireless Generation for supporting PhET through a generous donation. If you want to become a sponsor, go to CU Foundation PhET Project Fund. Or, e-mail kathryn.dessau@colorado.edu. Depending upon the level of sponsorship, your logo can appear on our website which has had over 15 million sims downloaded just last year and a total of over 50 million sims served!

Chemistry Teachers – Getting ready for the new year?

There are many new PhET chemistry sims this year. See how Trish Loeblein, PhET K-12 Specialist and Evergreen High School physics & chemistry teacher, uses PhET sims as demos, in-class labs, homeworks, and concept questions in this activity.

(The activities are appropriate for many levels and can easily be adapted for your particular needs.)

Check out our PhET podcasts at http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/phet-interactive-simulation/id432333491. Learn more about PhET’s Energy Skate Park sim and the Masses & Springs sim.
Are there ideas that you’d like to see in podcasts? Let us know.

As part of our effort to develop sims specifically for our middle-school audience, we are adapting many of our existing sims by refining the content and controls to better align with the middle-school learning goals. We’ll release the sims (and announce them here) as we complete each one. The first that will be released in the coming months will be States of Matter: Basics. Let us know which other ones you’d like to see.

We’ve now reached over 50 million sims run or downloaded from our website. And, just in 2010, we logged over 15 million! For 2011, we’re hoping to reach over 30 million so tell your friends about PhET to help spread the word. And for finding out the latest, “Like” us on Facebook.

Help us make science fun so we can improve science literacy worldwide.

Now you can create your own CD or DVD for the full PhET installation (with or without teaching activities) on computers that don’t have internet access. To create your installer disks, you’ll need a computer equipped with a CD/DVD writer, a blank disk and an internet connection. Remember to periodically check for updated versions of the PhET simulations to keep your sims most up to date.

Thanks Learning.com for supporting PhET through a generous donation. If you want to become a sponsor, go to CU Foundation PhET Project Fund. Or, e-mail kathryn.dessau@colorado.edu. Depending upon the level of sponsorship, your logo can appear on our website which has had over 15 million sims downloaded last year!

We’re busy revamping our “For Teachers” page. And, we’d love to hear what you like (or don’t like) and what features you’d like to see there. Your feedback will make the “For Teachers” an even more useful resource for every PhET user! Please send feedback to kathryn.dessau@colorado.edu.

Thanks Idaho Digital Learning for supporting PhET through a generous donation. If you want to become a sponsor, go to CU Foundation PhET Project Fund. Or, e-mail kathryn.dessau@colorado.edu. Depending upon the level of sponsorship, your logo can appear on our website which has had over 15 million sims downloaded last year!

We are collecting stories about how PhET is impacting education. Do you have a story about how PhET helped you or your students? If so, e-mail kathryn.dessau@colorado.edu. We’d love to hear about it and spread the news.