Re: [seul-edu] Re: ISO

[paul Sutton <psutton@uklinux.net>]

How about flightgear, while this is a game it does teach the basics of flying 
aircraft,  which is complex as you also learn about altituse, airspeed etc.  

other ideas.

rasmol
molecular weight calculator
there are various chemical drawing packages available like jchemdraw and jmol 
(java based)
There is also a program under suse which simulates titration curves,  called 
xem it's french but I am sure someone can adapt it however it's fairly easy 
to work out what the chemicals are anyway,  e,g acide hydrochlorique ie well 
HCl

Fractal programs are nice to teach maths, or demonstrate maths,  again the 
kids will probably like getting fractal pictures to print out at the end,  
(suitable for younger kids and older kids who will be looking at the theory 
behind fractals)
xgas has something to do with gas laws. 
another game is atomic entertainment which again is quite challenging and 
once you have spent a few hours making up someof the chemicals you are less 
likely to forget how they went together,  (learning through fun)
you also have games like the free railroad tycoon clone, which in a way helps 
to teach about business,  
kdevelop and related seems to go without saying.


I can't think of much more from the top of my head,  

Hope this list is of some use though
Paul (UK) 



n Thursday 25 April 2002 22:59, you wrote:
> Stephen C. Daukas wrote:
>
> At 03:05 PM 4/25/2002, Doug wrote:
> > [1]
> >
> >> OK.  How to proceed?  First, let's look through the entries in the
> >> Educational
> >> Applications Index <http://richtech.ca/seul/> and identify candidates
> >> for inclusion in the ISO.
> >
> > [big snip]
> >
> > I am most and interested and believe I can get local resources to help
> > with 3, 4 & 5.  I would also like to participate with 1 & 2, but being
> > new to teaching, I have less of a network to "work" and can't make
> > promises at this point...
> >
> > Should we try to actually put together a team at this point and see if
> > we can flesh out the plan?
>
> Let's do it.If anyone reading this message is interested in helping on
> this, speak up.  The first thing to do is to get some teachers to look
> through the Index and pick the apps that look like good candidates.  I
> _know_ there are a number of teachers reading this message.  Step up!
>   You don't have to go over the entire list.  Just pick your
> particular area of expertise and take a good look at the apps in that
> category.  If some category doesn't get any volunteers, we'll have to
> look at parceling those apps out to people willing to look at them.
>
> This is your chance to influence the course of the Linux in education
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