Spaceball - Simulator Kit 1

A Build your own Simulator Kit for Students - Everything Included!

5-page printable illustrated step-by-step directions and good questions pdf and

2-page printable educator pages with answers pdf
or
7-page printable Word file with all: doc

(opens in new window)

Download Zip with Directions, Images, ...

Zip (includes directions, images, starter GeoGebra file and completed simulator). Requires freeware GeoGebra and sunJava player.

Metadata

Global	Simulation of a Bouncing Ball in Space
Brief	InterActivity-Build your own Simulator of a Bouncing Ball in Space
Grade	6 and up
Strand
Standard
Keywords	simulator, geogebra, dynamic, freeware, applet, offline, online
Comments
Credits	Robert Fant and Dani Novak, who encouraged me endlessly about my simulators
Download	Zip: http://mathcasts.org/gg/enliven/simulators/spaceball/spaceball.zip
Author	LFS - contact
Type	Freeware - Available for Offline Use - Translatable (html)
Use	Requires sunJava player

Scenario: Kirk and Spock decide to play ping-pong in space. The ball bounces back and forth between their paddles, when a Klingon warship approaches. In their haste to return to the Enterprise, they leave their paddles and the ball behind. After the battle (in which the Federation and the Klingon Empire both claim victory), Kirk and Spock look out and see the ball still bouncing back and forth between the paddles. Make a simulator to show the paddles and ball.

InterActivity: Download the zip and build this simulator. It REALLY is easy.

Click on the

play button (bottom left) to start the ball bouncing.

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