Using Interactive Technology in the Classroom

by Maddy Lopez and Garrett Esponda

This lesson is designed as a professional development for K – 12 educators. The goal for this lesson is to introduce fellow teachers to PhET, an interactive website for Math and Science education. In this lesson, we will…

  • See, Think, Wonder about PhET
  • Share ideas for how to use PhET in classrooms
  • Show all the resources PhET has to offer
  • Brainstorm ways of using PhET in your own personal class

In order to create this lesson, we used PhET, Google Slides, and Jamboard. Google Slides is used as a way of presenting information to the class about PhET and Jamboard is used for the class to easily collaborate digitally.

Google Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15Lh7QWTPK_xHM67IETKwwcU83nfVja_QhJ_B93mIcUs/edit?usp=sharing

See, Think, Wonder Jamboard:

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1NnEHhW4GhYNanB3sybJvK6Q3i4nciNr-cUOWj2VtTq8/edit?usp=sharing

Implementing PhET in the Classroom Jamboard:

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1IGLVNfyuJvmy8bpOIMy1Clm1NazIYMAcGrSDP_1N75A/edit?usp=sharing

Featured Image: Image by Theo Crazzolara from Pixabay

One Reply to “Using Interactive Technology in the Classroom”

  1. I was impressed with PhET and you did a great job of introducing it and demonstrating its use in the classroom. Your PD opened with some background on PhET – a great explainer.

    Then we used a Jamboard to “See, Think and Wonder” about PhET before they instructed in specifics. The jamboard worked well to get us started – Great job walking us through how to search, activities, resources. Final activity to think about how we would use in our area.

    First rate PD!

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