Level II Manual

  • Welcome
  • What is ASPIRE?
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • ASPIRE Goals and Mission
  • ASPIRE Staff
  • Regional Training Centers
  • Improving Student Achievement
  • Accounts and Establishing a Connection
  • Accessing your UAH Account
  • Installing and Using Twinsock
  • Gaining Internet Access through an Internet Provider
  • UNIX Survival Skills
  • Pine Mail Utility
  • Pico Text Editor
  • UNIX Exercises
  • Computational Science
  • Computational Science
  • Using a Computer to Solve Problems
  • Project Development
  • Problem Solving Techniques
  • Chapter 1: What is Project Development?
  • Introduction to Project Development
  • Overview of Project Development
  • Chapter 2: Selecting an Appropriate Topic for a Project
  • Chapter 3: Research Methods
  • Researching and investigating your project
  • Background Information
  • Chapter 4: Working with Mentors
  • Mentors
  • Using Portals Collaborative Software
  • Chapter 5: Mathematical Modeling
  • Method of Solution
  • Chapter 6: Computational Modeling
  • Stella Sample Projects
  • Model-It Sample Projects
  • Chapter 7: Scientific Visualization
  • Writing a Technical Paper
  • Project Presentation
  • Writing a Technical Paper
  • Projects
  • Projects to complete
  • Exponential Growth of Populations
  • The Effect of Carrying Capacity on Population Growth
  • Modeling the Course of a Disease in Excel
  • Modeling the Motion of a Projectile using a Spreadsheet
  • Fahrenheit to Celcius
  • What is Predictability and Unpredictability
  • Using the Internet in your Classroom
  • Collaborative Software
  • Modeling Softwares
  • Multimedia Software
  • Team Building for Project Development
  • What is Internet?
  • Internet Etiquette and Ethics
  • How can Internet be used in my classroom?
  • What do I need in my classroom to access Internet?
  • Netscape Tutorial
  • Searching the Internet for Information
  • Newsgroups
  • Listservs
  • Developing a Home Page
  • Unit 1 - Introduction
  • Unit 2: Logging on to a network
  • Unit 3: Basic Unix
  • Unit 4: Visualizing Data using Spreadsheets
  • Unit 5: Other Visualization Programs
  • Unit 6: Internet Resources
  • Unit 7: Project Development
  • Answer Keys for Labs