Spring 2015 Newsletter from PhET

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Bring PhET to HTML5

We now have 29 sims in HTML5 and 100 sims to go! Donate today to help fuel our summer progress.

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Thanks for your support!

In the HTML5 Pipeline:

Recently Released:

Coming Soon:

Arithmetic
Charges and Fields
Gravity and Orbits
Pendulum Lab

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ISTE 2015
Philadelphia, PA
June 28-July1, 2015

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Thank You PI

Thank you PI for your continuing support of PhET. PI is a corporate sponsor of Optical Tweezers and Applications.

Please Send Us Your PhET Stories!

Have an inspirational PhET story? Has PhET changed how you teach? How your students learn? Inspired a student's interest in STEM?

We are looking for a few personal stories to share with people around the world to capture how PhET simulations impact you or your students. Help us by filling out this short questionnaire. If your story is selected, we'll contact you for more information, and feature you in our newsletters and blogs.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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New Website Improvements Coming This Summer!

Keep an eye out for changes to the website, specifically on simulation pages. HTML5 simulations will now have dedicated pages where you can see sample learning goals, read simulation-specific teacher tips, and browse activities. Enhancements include:

New simulation page design

New user profiles

Easier uploading for activities

Honoring PhET K12 Specialist: Teacher Trish Loeblein

Congratulations to Conifer Chemistry Teacher and PhET K12 Specialist, Trish Loeblein, on her retirement from teaching!

Trish has been a dedicated teacher for over 30 years, and a member of the PhET team for the last 10, helping design over 50 simulations and contributing over 130 guided-inquiry-based activities along with many teacher resources! Her activities are the most popular in our database with more than 1,000,000 downloads in the past year. In addition, she has run numerous teacher workshops and webinars, both locally and nationally. Over her many years of teaching, Trish has touched thousands of students focusing on their learning, specifically understanding and learning to think, NOT just memorization.

Thanks Trish for inspiring a generation of students! And while the students will certainly miss you in the classroom, we are excited that you will continue to work part-time with PhET!

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