She learned so much faster through hands-on exploration than through books or videos. That's when I realized: what if I could recreate these physical experiments as interactive simulations?
Lumen is the result - an interactive physics playground covering sound, light, motion, life, and mechanics. Each module lets you manipulate variables in real-time and see/hear the results immediately.
Try it: https://www.projectlumen.app/
This reminds me a bit of this site, which has been around for a long time and has a similar motivation: teach physics concepts using simulations:
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=phy...
I'm curious whether you're using this to teach initial familiarity, or as the first step toward touch typing?
For touch typing, I think Typing Club is a good place to start for kids. And then Keybr to develop full fluency. And then Monkeytype to develop speed.
EDIT - when I wrote this comment I had only opened the link on my phone. Now I see it on desktop it's clear that the on-screen keyboard is intended to teach key positions without the user looking down at their keyboard. It's good.
And you can persist the page in query param. So someone can directly sent people to particular simulation with data.
I will work on the url query param persistence - I know its annoying at the moment
[1] randomly, fwiw, I've used cloud deck slicing to illustrate downdraft, eg https://imgur.com/4hhZ7zq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HIddtgGzDE . Or perhaps moments of "yoink" like... err, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfY5ZQDzC5s&t=154s .
You should use the rabbit emoji instead: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F407
tetris11•2w ago
(At the same time I was reminded a bit by the subtext of the web series Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, especially when pumping the heart to deliver body's needed cargo, like aspic and white sauce -- but that's just my brainrot showing)
I can imagine this being pretty fun on a tablet
anticlickwise•2w ago