Bits and Bytes

Archive for the ‘SMART Notebook’ Category

This centre contains a 48″ SMART Board.   It is available for short term loan from Educational Technology Support Services.

Please contact ETSS by email to request the learning centre and specify some possible dates.

• Flight

  • Flying Model Simulator - Local Download (open source)

  • Flying Model Simulator - Link to web site (open source)

    • Metasequoia – Free CAD Program to design aircraft for FMS

      • Tutorial for Metasequoia
        (not open source but FREE version available)

    • Landscape generator

    • Plane field editor

    • Aircraft (this self-extracting file contains a wide selection of aircraft)

    • SMART Notebook Flight Activity – Manitoba, Grade 6 Science Curriculum

    • WSD Documentation (how to use Flying Model Simulator)
      (requires Adobe Acrobat)

  • Flight Gear (open source)

• NASA Flight Resources

  • Aerodynamics Index

  • Learning Modules

  • Dryden Gallery

• NASA – Others

  • Virtual Lab (open source)

• Design Simulation Technology – Physics

  • Interactive Physics (commercial)
    

• West Point Bridge Designer

  • West Point Bridge Designer 2007

• A Science Odyssey You Try It Plate Tectonics
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/shockwave.html
• Educational Multimedia Visualization Centre
  (University of California – Santa Barbra)
  • http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php
• NASA Simulations
  • http://www.knowitall.org/nasa/simulations/science.html
• PhET  Physics Education Technology at CU Boulder
  • http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/index.php
• ForgeFX
  • http://www.forgefx.com/demos.htm
• Houghton Mufflin
  • http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmxs/
• Earth Kam – North Carolina
  • http://www.ncsu.edu/earthkam/simulation/
• North Harris College
  • http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
• Skool.ie
  • http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/junior.asp?id=3404