Actual examples of microworlds
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jflake/microworlds.html
- Description: This site describes characteristics of
microworlds, and links to other sites with information related
to microworlds.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aerojava/Foilsim.htm
- Description: Site contains a description of FoilSim
(an interactive flow simulator) and a downloadable copy of the
application.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source: http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/
- Description: This site, part of SimCalc, contains
information about MathWorlds, including a "Quick Start" guide,
examples of MathWorlds, and the software itself.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.rand.org/hot/mcarthur/home.html
- Description: This site describes the RAND Discovery
Microworlds Project, the main goal of which is to develop
powerful computer-based microworlds that permit students to
learn interesting and complex ideas through inquiry or
discovery -- not through lecture or drill-and-practice. From
this site you can link to papers, video clips and computer code
related to three of the microworlds developed by the
project.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source: http://www.krev.com/products/ip.html
- Description: This site describes a software product
called Interactive Physics and how it can be used to integrate
systems modeling into a physics curriculum. A key component of
this software package is the model animation that helps
students visualize abstract concepts. Besides building models,
Interactive Physics allows learners to view changes in
important measurements while a simulation runs. They can
measure physical quantities such as velocity, acceleration,
momentum, angular momentum, kinetic energy, and friction. They
can also display these measurements as numbers, graphs, or
animated vector displays.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as5think.htm
- Description: The ThinkerTools II Project is
developing a performance assessment model that will enhance the
teaching and learning of scientific inquiry, while helping
students to develop a knowledge of the physics of force and
motion. This site discusses how this project teaches students
to carry out scientific inquiry in order to discover basic
physical principles for themselves by doing experiments.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.wolfram.com/s.wolfram/about-mathematica/text.html
- Description: This site describes Mathematica, a
software program developed in 1988, which combines the three
basic types of computation--numerical, symbolic, and
graphical--in one program, and displays graphics in both two
and three dimensions on a computer screen. Once used primarily
in the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics, use of
Mathematica is now becoming more prevalent in other fields as
well.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source: http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/
- Description: Check out this site for information
about SimCalc, a team of educators, developers, and researchers
at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; and TERC,
Cambridge, MA. This project is designed to make advanced
calculus more relevant, understandable and accessible to the
typical student by building and testing software simulations
and curricular activities for a wide range of students
beginning in third grade and continuing through college
calculus. The SimCalc software is also available for download
from this site.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
- Description: This great site describes "WebQuest"--
"an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the
information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests
are "designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using
information rather than looking for it, and to support
learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation" and can make use of many different tools including
databases, spreadsheets, microworlds, and others. Check out the
"overview" page for more information about the WebQuest model,
and the "example" link for many examples of projects already
developed.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/BioWeb/BioWeb.Lab1.main.html
- Description: A part of the Science at a Distance
site created by Professor John Blamire for Brooklyn College in
New York, this site is one of the Bio-Laboratory Simulations.
These are a series of computer simulations that complement and
recreate specific laboratory experiments. These simulations are
available over the World Wide Web, but require a browser
capable of using the ShockWave plugin.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source:
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/whatis.html
- Description: The IEM is an on-line futures market
where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as
political outcomes, companies' earnings per share (EPS), and
stock price returns. The market is operated by University of
Iowa College of Business Administration faculty as an
educational and research project. You can log into the
"practice markets" to see how this simulation works.
- Type of resource: Web site
- Source: http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html
- Description: This simple simulation was created by UC-Berkeley's
Center for Community Economic Research, and should give you a better feel
for the trade-offs citizens and policy makers will need to make to balance
the federal budget.
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