Models Systems and Randomness

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The general theme will be to build models with computational materials to represent and explore various fenomena in the real world.

In this topic the students will work with different themes:

Randomness

One theme concerns the concept of randomness, and how randomess could be understood and used when modelling on the computer. One of the activities will be to create a "Random Garden" using the toontalk tools. We will also explore different ways of understanding "random" phenomena in nature and try to represent these on the computer and by playing with lego-robots. more

Part of this theme will also be to put together an Encyclopaedia of Randomness.

Click here to play the Guess my Garden Game.

We also experimented a ToonTalk model of the "Sweeper Bot":

Click here to play with ToonTalk models of the "Sweeper" Lego Robot.

Model building activities

Another theme concern model building of phenomena where randomness plays a part such as games and eco systems. Here we use a set of animal gadgets that helps up model these phenomena. Click here to view for the emerging models and here for testing the tools we use

 

Participating schools:

Istituto Comprensivo Paolo Sarpi (Italy)

Scuola Media Barrili Paganini (Italy)

Escola EB 2.3 Vale de Milhacos (Portugal)

St. Peteras School (Portugal)

Eriksbergsskolan (Sweden)

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