In a message dated 1/22/05 11:52:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > They are cold - no, not cold - FRIGID! - to blogging, underscored by > antagonism - yes that is the correct word - to writing assignments > for old school professors who believe some aspect of their grade is > determined by grammar, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing. > Exactly Hibbs, with all of the latest gadgets there are some projects that they are NOt ready for that are simple and some that are a bit complicated but worth the work to create. Stella and Madonna modeling... for instance. Systems Dynamics and modeling.. really good. Can be done on either kind of computer.. http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/RSE/RSEblue/dynamicmodel/Goralhome.html What follows are some high school modeling lessons and projects spanning a broad range of sophistication. For the most part, they are on population dynamics and they are biologically-oriented, although there are some chemistry lessons/mini-projects which deal with populations of atoms undergoing nuclear decay, and there are a few other assorted projects, chemistry and physics included. An attempt has been made to rank the various models by how "advanced" they are, with the first ones being the most rudimentary. The links in the following section are to Macintosh files (created in common word processors) of lessons, worksheets, project docs., or problem statements which can be downloaded and used as handouts for classes. These "prescribed" modeling projects represent only one way to do modeling, however; the other main approach is to allow students to model problems/systems of their own choosing. There were powerful workshops through the National computational science institutes that introduced these skills to teachers this summer . We also learned new software Stella, Madonna, Interactive Physics , Fathom and got to take these home with us in our teams. Shodor.org is also a place to find new materials to create thinking models and to learn with students. See CSERD. http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/. Bonnie Bracey bbracey@ aol.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
