MicroWorlds in Action presents a variety of resources for a wide range of learning styles and needs. Following brief descriptions, you will find specific suggestions for using the MicroWorlds in Action resources in a computer lab.

Each folder contains a sequence of MicroWorlds projects of increasing difficulty built around the same theme. The first page of each folder gives a brief hyperlinked description of the folder's projects. To the left of each project description is a rough difficulty indicator, modeled after the symbols used on ski slopes:

= easy
= intermediate
= advanced

The first page also provides a link to a page of shapes used in creating the folder's projects and a link to a downloadable version of the projects.

Each project includes:

On the first page of the section – the project file drawer page – you will find a link to a downloads page for all projects. You might like to download projects in order to make quick explorations of variations in the procedures or to use existing projects as launch pads for your own extension. But downloading projects is not necessary; within each folder, the interactive projects, code, and needed project elements are clearly presented so that each project can be recreated from scratch for a more rigorous learning experience.

Feel free to explore the folders in any depth and any order. More folders are coming soon. We welcome you to submit projects or project ideas for us to consider as we create new folders. (Of course we will credit any outside contributions!)

The project folders are also presented in Spanish for the benefit of Spanish-speaking students and teachers.

Resources include:

Coming soon:

The site uses the Google search technology to help locate information within the MicroWorlds in Action web site.

The site map provides a hyperlinked outline of the materials on the MicroWorlds in Action site.

Learn a bit about the long-distance team involved in the development of MicroWorlds in Action.