Inservice Activities

Some of these files are located on the physics website.
You probably don't have permission to edit those
but you can open them and then save them to your
website or to a floppy disk.

The Physlet Animations will only run from a directory that
is at the same level as a Physlet "classes" directory.

1) Overview: What's possible and why do it?

• Some examples: Electronic Toys

2) What's possible with a spreadsheet?

• Illustration: Motion Diagram, Chemical Equillibrium #1 and #2

• Multiple Representations: Motion and Graphs

• Advanced Topics: Dispersion

• Assessment: Student work (perfect) (not quite)

• Art: "Geometer's Sketchpad"

(Animations won't run? Click here)

3) What are the basic tools?

• Scroll bars: click here

• Combo boxes (drop down menu): click here

• Buttons with Visual Basic (VB): click here

4) Building up a "picture"

• The animated dot click

• Add another dot click

• Change the order click

• Add more dots click

• And even more dots click

5) How to create the basic tools:

• A quick tutorial (Word Doc) (PDF file)

• Some Visual Basic text for "Make Louie Grow" click

• A "Louie" spreadsheet that needs two more cell definitions click