In these pages (1-4) you can find and download various samples of Microworlds constructed with E-Slate. To use them, you have to first download and install E-Slate from the Download area. After that you may open Microworlds (.mwd files) from within E-Slate. Alternativelly, you can double-click on these files to launch E-Slate. Note that in some cases Microworlds are accompanied by various multimedia assets (packed in .zip files) which should always be kept at the relative file locations indicated by the installation file structure.
Copyright Notice and Terms of Use: The provided Microworlds and materials are distributed on an "as is" basis, for any non-commercial use. In all cases, their use should be accompanied by the "Credits" notice as it appears below.
Rediscovering the Mycenean civilization Based on archeological findings unearthed by the hoe in ancient Mycenean settlements, pupils try to re-create the civilization, trade-habits and everyday life of that time.
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Earth Tectonics A Microworld aiming to lead pupils to the discovery of the relationships among earthquakes, volcanoes and plate tectonic theory and also provide a general purpose tool for the study of earthquakes and volcanoes. By using the Time-machine pupils may view the global seismic and volcanic activity, as it was recored from historical times until today, in the chosen time frames. Earthquake data are compiled from a USGS data set of historical earthquakes from 2000 BC until today. Volcano data are compiled from the Global Volcanism Program data set of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Volcano World web site.
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Day & Night Pupils experience the day-night phenomenon through the interactive and simulatneous manipulation of 2D and 3D representations of the Earth (map, globe) and the wrist-watch of a traveler that moves from place to place.
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World Atlas Unlike most electronic Atlases around, this one offers the capability of making structured queries to the underlying database of world countries, producing visualizations of spatial distributions based on various criteria. At the same time, the Set component (based on the idea of Tabletop) visualizes the resulting sets of data through Venian diagrams.
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Globetrotter The purpose of this Microworld is to demonstrate how historical trips of the Great Explorers (like that of Meggelan's in this example) could be recreated by using Agents (components) traveling on Maps, navigated by various controls and/or commands (from the Logo component on the left).
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