It's hard to find a physics or chemistry teacher that doesn't use PhET Interactive Simulations, a free online science and math simulations platform founded at the University of Colorado Boulder in ...

CU Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations is one of 15 finalists for the prestigious WISE Award from the WISE Initiative. A STEM-education project at the University of Colorado Boulder is one step ...

What would you learn if you could turn off the atmosphere? What problems might you solve if you could increase the force of gravity or had the ability to manipulate individual electrons in a circuit?

PhET, a non-profit project within the University of Colorado, Boulder, is teaming up with Legends of Learning, a middle school science gaming company, to put its science and math-based interactive ...

When Kathy Briggs teaches her sixth-grade science students about static electricity at Southern Hills Middle School in Boulder, she turns to “John Travoltage” for help. Students can make the computer ...

Strong Points: Simulations run well; all simulations are free to use and cover a wide variety of topics. One of the easiest ways to demonstrate novel concepts to students is through hands-on ...

Multiple-choice exams measuring the breadth of students’ content knowledge have hardly disappeared. But the creators of a leading international exam, the U.S. government agency behind “the nation’s ...

There’s no shortage of ways to use PhET simulations in (or out of) the classroom. Effectively, any time you’d use a static PowerPoint slide or textbook image to demonstrate a concept, it’s worth ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2025 — AIP has awarded $25,000 to the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder for the team’s proposed project, “Electricity and Magnetism with ...