With the Internet all abuzz over the color of #TheDress, the time is perfect to introduce students to how red, green and blue make up the colors of our world. Learn about how red, green and blue make a rainbow in the Color Vision sim.
Did you miss Conifer Chemistry Teacher and PhET K12 Specialist Trish Loeblein discuss her personal experiences on how and why she uses PhET in her chemistry classroom last fall?
This Wednesday, Trish will give an encore presentation, including addressing suggestions and questions from the over 190 attendees from last fall’s webinar. Listen to and chat with Trish as she shares her strategies, course planning documents, lessons, and student handouts for regular and advanced chemistry.
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Time: 5 PM, MST
Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4007410185230266626
Try the #HTML5 tablet/browser-compatible Fraction Matcher simulation. A great way to improve fraction skills for the younger student. Match shapes and numbers to earn stars in this fractions game. Students can challenge themselves at different levels, collecting stars as they improve their fraction skills. Choose between the “Fractions” and “Mixed Numbers” tabs for more learning fun.
Meet PhET team members, learn what’s coming to PhET Sims, or just stop by and say hello at these meetings in March and April. We look forward to seeing you.
NSTA 2015 National Conference
Chicago, IL
March 12-15, 2015
Booth #554
NCTM 2015 Research Conference
Boston, MA
April 13-15, 2015
Meet Yuen-ying Carpenter who came to the PhET team with a PhD in chemistry, and an avid interest in investigating how college students learn in both core chemistry classes and in applied disciplines such as the energy sciences.
She brings with her both inquiry-based college curriculum development expertise from her time at the University of Calgary and Dalhousie University, as well as a taste for in informal science inquiry and outreach for all ages from the Calgary science centre, TELUS Spark.
When she’s not at PhET, Yuen-ying can be found biking around Boulder, or hanging out on a trapeze somewhere 10 ft in the air.
