Materials Development

• Web-Based Multi-Disciplinary Educational Materials (pre-college)

  The Greenhouse The Greenhouse is an online resource for teachers who wish to use 3D computer graphics in their courses. The resources were created by teachers from a range of disciplines, including computer science, math, biology, physics, industrial technology, and art and design. Materials available include lesson plans, exercises/activities, and interactive software.

• Web-Based Exploratories (primarily for undergraduates and graduates)
  An exploratory is a computer-based combination of an exploratorium and a laboratory--a new way of teaching and learning using two- and three-dimensional, explorable worlds in which objects have behaviors and users can interact with models of concepts and phenomena. Exploratories leverage the joint forces of computer graphics and interaction to provide efficient, powerful learning experiences that would be impractical, if not impossible, to attain with traditional means.

  Exploratories

• Introduction to Computer Science (primarily rising Freshman)

  The Bridge course

• Interactive Tools for the Classroom of the Future
  The Center has worked for several years on this ambitious education outreach project. A postdoc, graduate student, and undergraduates work together to develop visualization and physical simulation tools for science education, using a fully interactive 3D environment including object behaviors derived from the laws of physics. The simulation tools are being tested in local classrooms and established at the Ithaca Sciencenter.

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