Stimulating Understanding of Computational science through Collaboration,Exploration, Experiment, and Discovery for students withHearing Impairments
a collaboration of the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, Barton College, theNational Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Interpreters, Inc.

This page has links to help you download the models used in this module.

This lesson uses a Stella model. It requires Stella software language to run. A free save disabled version of Stella is available at:

http://www.hps-inc.com/

Both the Stella reader and save disabled versions are free. The disabled version allows your students to create models and modify models like mine. If you find Stella useful, you can get an educational site license. The only difference with the purchased version is that you and your students can save the models you make.

If you use PCs, you can download a free zipped Stella model.

STELLA Model

You can get the software to unzip them at http://winzip.com/: Download the evaluation version

If you use Macs you can download a free compressed Stella Model.

STELLA Model

You can get a free download to decompress the model at http://www.stuffit.com/expander/

The Java version of this model will work on your Internet browser. After you open the model, bookmark it so you can return to it.

You can download the Excel spreadsheets used in this lesson from the U.S. Geological Survey Site http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1999/p1650-a/datatables/index.html. This lesson uses the Hardwood Species spreadsheet. A Conifer Species spreadsheet which can be used is also available at this site.

I have created an expanded version of the USGS Hardwood spreadsheet. It contains all of the data of the original, plus columns for common names and sections of the U.S. where the trees can be found. Sorting these columns will allow the students to concentrate their efforts on trees that are native to their location.
 
 

This project is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation.