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*The Rock Cycle*
Version 0.6
Hello!
Welcome to my first effort at creating something useful for
teachers. I hope that it works for you.
*At the moment* this is Postcard ware. ie. if you use
this please mail me to tell me what you thought! My addresses
(Email and snailmail) are at the bottom. Any suggestions for
improvement will be gratefully received.
"Rocks" is a fairly straight forward piece of software
written in Visual Basic. This means that you must have
VBRUN300.DLL (or VBRUN200.DLL) sitting in your Windows/System
directory or it won't work. VBRUN300.DLL can be found in a
great many places on the internet.
Try these two:
ftp.warwick.ac.uk//pub/windows/dll
unix.hensa.ac.uk//pub/walnut.creek/cdrom/cdroms/old/windows
*The Program*
N.B. This is a Windows only program!
I hope that it is fairly self explanitory! Basically
you click on the different arrows and labels to try to
arrange the rock cycle in to the correct form. I would teach
a bit about the three different types of rock and then throw
them at the program.
If they get it right the program tells them how many
times they got it wrong and shows a picture of the 1943
Paracutin eruption (at night). If they get it first time on
"Very Hard" setting then they get a picture of Kilauea
erupting with a white helicopter in middle of the image,
sitting right over the orange lava fountain. I am indebted to
Joy Crisp at N.A.S.A. who made the .bmp files available to me.
Please note that whenever they start again, the setting
is returned to "Very Hard". The difficulty can be changed by
selecting different levels from the "Difficulty" menu in the
menu bar. Doing this turns some of the labels and arrows to
the correct setting and disables them.
*Some Secrets*
I set this up so that when the students do it on
"Very Hard" setting they get a static screen which they cannot
escape from. this is so that they complain to the teacher who
then knows that they are ready to do some more work..... In
reality if they click on the helicopter they exit the program
and if they click on the top of the lava flow they start
again.
Good luck.
Thomas W. William-Powlett.
Email: Thomas@Wallop.demon.co.uk
SnailMail: c/o Hampstead School,
Westbere Road,
London. NW3 2RT.
England.
About me: I am a Science teacher who loves rowing, ancient
history and travelling. How about you!
Disclaimer - I am afraid I don't want to be sued so.....I
copied this disclaimer and put my name in.
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THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS (INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS
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