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Project Folders

Animate Me. Animate yourself to dance, run, and do cartwheels.

Animated Story. Animate the characters in your story.

Ant Hill. Ants follow each other through a garden and an ant hill.

Bouncing Off Walls. Make cars bounce off walls.

Critter Chat. A little critter asks questions and responds to your answers.

Fortune Telling Ball. Shake a magic 8-ball to answer questions.

Fortune Telling Bones. Crack a magic bone to answer questions.

Growing Spider. A spider grows as it crawls on a web.

Make a Face. Create silly faces by clicking buttons.

Obstacle Course. Guide a turtle around obstacles.

Polygons. Make designs with triangles, pentagons, hexagons and more.

Race Cars. On this race track, it's hard to guess which car will win.

Spirals. Make lots of spiral designs.

Squares. Make colorful designs out of squares.

Download page. PC zipped file of all projects, organized by folder

Resources

Educational Context - see details in right column of site map

MicroWorlds Activity Pages - printable activity pages with suggestions for creating a variety of MicroWorlds projects.

How Do I? - FAQs with user-friendly answers

MW Vocabulary Table - description of each MW primitive with examples of usage and hyperlinks to MIA projects featuring the primitive

Sortable table of other useful MicroWorlds and Logo sites - including site descriptions and hyperlinks

Educational Context

Welcome. What is MicroWorlds in Action?

What is Logo? Why is it worth learning?

What are the advantages of MicroWorlds Logo?

What is constructivism?

What goes on in a constructivist computer lab?

What does the MicroWorlds in Action site offer me?

How is the MicroWorlds in Action site organized?

Suggestions for using MIA in a constructivist lab

A Summary Table summarizing some of the qualities of a constructivist classroom and how MicroWorlds and MIA support these qualities

MicroWorlds in a traditional learning environment

Assessing my own success as a teacher in a constructivist computer lab

What is OpenWorld Learning's educational program all about?

References

Other

The Search page uses the Google search technology.

Our Team - bios and contact info for Chris Myers, Wendy Petti, Daniel Ajoy, Seymour Papert and Michael Tempel