MicroWorlds

Age Range: 7-Adult
Platforms: Windows 95 and Mac
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: $99.00 (lab packs and site license/network versions are available)

Company: Logo Computer Systems Inc.
Phone: 800-321-5646

Description:

MicroWorlds is a Logo-based curriculum construction kit that makes the actual process of creating a multimedia project a rich, learning experience in itself. MicroWorlds is excellent for facilitating student learning through exploration, creation, and construction. MicroWorlds fosters the development of problem-solving strategies and critical thinking skills while introducing the essential 21st century skill-set of computer programming.

At the LCSI Website, a library containing 50+ MicroWorlds projects is available for viewing. These are real projects from several curriculum areas...games, art, language arts, math, and science. You may interact with these projects after downloading and installing the FREE Web Player plug-in. You may also download each of the projects, FREE, to your computer, but MicroWorlds 2.03 must be installed on your computer to open the projects. Once you have MW or a MW sample installed on your computer, you can open the downloaded projects and use them in your classroom. It is important to emphasize that projects in Logo are generally cross-curricular. In all these projects, even though the "main" area is one subject, there are elements of other areas of knowledge that are integrated into the project.

Key Features

• Create logo-based, multimedia projects...easy enough for Kindergarteners to use yet versatile enough for high school seniors
• Display MicroWorlds projects on the Web...save MW projects as HTML code to be displayed directly on the WWW
• FREE MW "Web Player" for Internet Browsers (Mac and Win95 versions) at LCSI website
• FREE dowloadable sample of MicroWorlds (Mac and Win95 versions) at LCSI website
• Users can post and download interactive MicroWorlds projects live at the LCSI Website
• "Download-a project" Project Library at LCSI Website
• Cross platform capability...Macintosh projects can be transferred to a Win 95 computer and vice versa
• Available in English (Windows95 and Macintosh) and Spanish and Portuguese (Windows95 only)
• Soon to be available in French, Italian, and Japanese (Win95 only)

Technical Assistance available at 800-321-5646

To view projects, click here

For further information, click here

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Howard J. Bender, Ph.D.
President
The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 186
Riverdale, Maryland 20738
hjbender@epicent.com