Tue 14 Jul 2009
For those of you who use or know of our PhET interactive simulations site, we’re trying to roll out a redesign of the site that’s geared for grades 4-8. But we’re struggling with a name. Any ideas?
- PhET Kids was deemed “too baby-ish” by some actual kids
- PhETmania (so far our favorite)
- Fresh Science by PhET
- Sim Science Playground
Update: here’s a couple more options:
PhET X –not good name
PhETbox – another weird name.
- PhET4PhUN – maybe
- PhET.Awesome – too young?
- PhETastic -too young?
- PhETlabs – maybe
- PhETmania – good
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9 Responses to “PhET for Kids?”
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Lori Andersen
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009 at 5:39 pm1Reply to this comment.PhET is Phat
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Rhett
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009 at 6:19 pm2Reply to this comment.PhET-a-lama-ding-dong
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sciencegeekgirl
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009 at 6:33 pm3Reply to this comment.Silly, silly people. Get back to work.
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Jen
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009 at 8:06 pm4Reply to this comment.PhETlabs or PhETmania are my votes. Both are cool. If I had to choose . . . PhETlabs.
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Rhett
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009 at 1:42 am5Reply to this comment.Ok, I polled my kids.
2 votes for PhET.awesome (though one of those votes is by someone that is easily influenced. just sayin).
1 for PhETlabs
1 for PhET4PhUNI still like my suggestion.
When do I get to see the kid version of PhET? I don’t see it on the normal PhET site.
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Frank Noschese
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009 at 1:49 am6Reply to this comment.How about K-PhET?
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Assaf
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009 at 7:37 am7Reply to this comment.How about amPhETamines? PhETish? MOSPhET? PhETuccini?
Seriously though: PhETlabs sounds nice.
Maybe PhETworld.
I’d go with “The PhET Experience” (or “Project”) – makes it sound mysterious and enticing.
But really, as Rhett said, PhET by itself sounds nice. -
sciencegeekgirl
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm8Reply to this comment.Thanks guys, these are really helpful!
Assaf, PhET itself is already taken. That’s the name of the main site. This site would be a spinoff of that site, specifically for kids in grades 4-8. The main PhET site is mainly for high school and college.
And Rhett, this is a project in the works… Launch won’t be for another 3-4 months I think. We’re just trying to come up with a good name and design right now.
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sciencegeekgirl
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm9Reply to this comment.Hey Rhett,
How old are your kids and what gender? They’re giving really different responses from the girls that we polled, who were going towards PhETMania…