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- From: cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chuck Farmer)
- Subject: Re: simearth in the classroom
- References: <33764.2B4006C4@puddle.fidonet.org>
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- Followup-To: k12.ed.science
- Organization: NCSA
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:06:59 GMT
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- In article <33764.2B4006C4@puddle.fidonet.org>, you wrote:
- >
- > CR> Is anyone using the computer program SIMEARTH in their
- > CR> classroom as more than a game? I want to incorporate it into a
- > CR> 9th grade environmental science class as a supplement to
- >
- > probably not a good idea .... maybe some day the computer gods will
- > bless me with a classroom full of 487, SVGA machines :-)
- >
- Or Better Yet: Macs!!!! ;)
-
- [Mac SimEarth runs on ALL macs]
-
- We use SimEarth primarily with k-6, on macs, and it is great. Doing demos
- with SimEarth is good but the real usefulness of the program is having the
- students making and testing hypothesis invidually.
-
- >
- > --
- > uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!260!615.1!Dan.LaFica
- > Internet: Dan.LaFica@p1.f615.n260.z1.fidonet.org
-
- Thanx
- Chuck
- cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- Only a fool is sure. --Moe Howard
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