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What's Included on
the CPU Preliminary Activities and Software
CD
Read these documents FIRST:
- Read Me Before Doing
ANYTHING: Contains instructions for the installation
of OpenDoc™
- OpenDoc™ ReadMe: A
Microsoft Word™ 5.1 file. Contains introduction to
OpenDoc™ Editors and Stationery; instructions for
setting up OpenDoc™ for CPU software; and
instructions for creating and editing OpenDoc™
Stationery.
- Installing CPU Software:
Instructions for installing CPU software (Editors and
Stationery) on your Macintosh computer.
- CPU Simulator Instructions:
A Microsoft Word™ 5.1 file. General instructions for
using CPU simulators. You will find specific instructions
in the CPU software guides.
- License to use CPU
Software: Read the license before using any CPU
software. Note the disclaimer.
- CPU Project Description: A
Microsoft Word™ 5.1 file. An overview of the
Constructing Physics Understanding Project and
pedagogy.
- What's Included on the CPU
CD: This document.
The CPU Preliminary CD contains the
following folders:
CPU Software Editors: This
folder has two subfolders that contain the
OpenDoc™-compatible software applications you will use.
These applications include Dock'Em™, the page layout
program used to create student activities; physics
simulators; and Portfolio, a program that allows students to
keep a record of their ideas.
CPU Editors for PPC machines:
If you have a PowerPC, copy the Editors within this folder
to the Editors folder (located within the System Folder) on
your Macintosh's hard drive.
CPU Editors for 68K machines:
If you have a 68K Mac (which you probably do if you don't
have a PowerPC), copy the Editors within this folder to the
Editors folder (located within the System Folder) on your
Macintosh's hard drive.
Note that, if you want to use an
OpenDoc™-compatible application, you do not
double-click on the Editor file. Instead, you must
double-click on a Stationery or Document file created by
that application. See the documents OpenDoc Readme and
Installing CPU Software for more information.
CPU Software Stationery:
Contains Stationery files for:
- Dock'Em™
- Light and Color (L&C)
simulators
- Static Electricity and Magnetism
(SE&M) simulators
- Current Electricity (CE)
simulators
- Motion and Force (M&F)
simulators
- Portfolio
Copy this folder to any location on
your Mac's hard drive.
CPU Units: Contains folders for
different CPU units. Each unit folder contains subfolders
for the unit's activities, which are carried out by
students; and for teacher's guides, which are designed to
aid you. The folder includes the following units:
- SE&M Unit: Static Electricity
and Magnetism Activities and Teacher's Guide.
- L&C Unit: Light and Color
Activities and Teacher's Guide.
Cur Elec Unit: Contains two
subfolders:
- CE Unit-Elementary Teachers:
Current Electricity Activities and Teacher's Guide for
elementary school teachers.
- CE Unit-High School: Current
Electricity Activities for high school students. The
activities in this unit are identical to the ones in the
Unit for Elementary Teachers. The only difference is that
some specific motivational contexts of interest to
Elementary teachers have been replaced with more generic
ones.
M&F Unit: Contains two
subfolders:
- M&F Unit-Elementary Teachers:
Motion and Force Activities and Teacher's Guide for
elementary school teachers.
- M&F Unit-High School: Motion
and Force Activities and Teacher's Guide for high school
students. This Unit is significantly different than the
Unit for Elementary Teachers.
Underpinnings Unit: Activities that
focus on underpinning concepts of science, along with the
associated Teacher's Guides.
Hello Dock'Em™!: A tutorial that
introduces students to Dock'Em™, the page layout
program used by the CPU Activities.
CPU Software Guides: Contains the
following subfolders:
- SE&M Software guides: Guides
to using the SE&M simulators.
- L&C Software guides: Guides to
using the L&C simulators.
- CE Software guides: Guides to
using the CE simulator.
- M&F Software guides: Guides to
using the M&F simulator.
- Portfolio guides: Guides to using
the Porfolio idea container.
Dock'Em™ Guides and License:
License for using Dock'Em™, a Dock'Em™ manual,
Apple Guide for Dock'Em™ 1.0, and other useful
documents.
What is NOT included on this
CD:
- OpenDoc™. See the "Read Me
Before Doing ANYTHING" document.
- A screen capture program: Many of
the CPU activities ask students to take "snapshots" of
simulator set-ups. To enable students to do this you will
need a program that allows them to take a snapshot of a
user-chosen area of the screen and to copy it to the
system clipboard. Then students can "paste" the picture
into their activity document. We have used SnapzPro from
Ambrosia Software (716-325-1910), but any similar screen
capture program would probably work.
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