Is PhET still free to use? Yes, but you can always make donations or encourage others. https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1437859
Have you been following our progress on creating next-generation PhET sims? These new simulations update our designs to work with touch or mouse interaction, and they are built on a new HTML5 code base, meaning that they run seamlessly on all of today’s classroom technologies from PCs, to tablets (iPads or Android-based), to Chromebooks. Hats off to our amazing software development team for their work to push the boundaries of HTML5 technology. To access the new sims, visit http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/html.
Is PhET still “research-based? A teacher survey of over 2,000 teachers in the US, 63% said that PhET simulations made their teaching more effective and 23% said much more effective. We are holding a summit to identify what features the new Html5 sims need to help both groups. Also, PhET researchers continue to work and publish findings for sim design and best practices.
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Modeling in 9–12 builds on K–8 and progresses to using, synthesizing, and developing models to predict and show relationships among variables between systems and their components in the natural and designed worlds.
Modeling in 9–12 builds on K–8 and progresses to using, synthesizing, and developing models to predict and show relationships among variables between systems and their components in the natural and designed worlds. Use a model to predict the relationships between systems or between components of a system.