On 10.09.2009, at 02:02, Caroline Meeks wrote:
At GPA we will be working with the 4th grade. Their fall science topic is Electricity and magentism.We have the GCompris activity: GCompris Electric 11 Any other suggestions?
This is higher-level than electromagnetism, but maybe still relevant (and fun to play with anyway):
In Etoys, go to "Gallery of Projects", then "ComputerLogicGame" (3rd item in 3rd row I think). This is simulating wired logic gates in a very simple manner, representing the on/off state by a color. E.g. the yellow rectangle is "on", while the piece of wire is "off":
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Moving the wire's red dot over the source switches it on, too:
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As you can see this does not require a closed circuit so it is not a simulation at the electrical level.
The example shows an inverter's (Not gate) script, and this is actually the only code for this object:
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If the kids had prior experience with Etoys they could build this on their own from scratch pretty easily.
- Bert -
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