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[school-discuss] REVISED : etc ... cds for the classroom - intro to solar system - inner solar system



On Monday 17 February 2003 11:42 am, mike eschman wrote:
. hello,
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. when gutenberg "green lights" this, it goes into their library.
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. 02-17-2003
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. Introduction to the Solar System.
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. Focusing on Orbital Mechanics, Geography, Geology, observation and note
. taking.
. We don't "age" or "date" objects here, that's beyond our scope.
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. Target audience : Smart 11 year olds through disciplined average students
 of . 15 years and up.
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. Availability : Download from http://www.etc-edu.com DOWNLOADS page
 beginning . 2-19-2003.
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. Please make available from your site for download, so etc ... doesn't get
. killed!
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. All materials original by etc... and "copyleft",
. OR public domain by NASA and JPL.
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. Volume 1. "Inner" Solar System.
. Includes General Introduction to the Solar System,
. The Sun,
. Mercury,
. Venus,
. Earth,
. The Moon,
. Mars,
. Phobos,
. and Deimos.
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. Cd # 001, ~605 Meg. :
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. Planetarium software [xplns].
. Group of Inner Solar System Views for New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.[.stl
 files] . HELP to reset .stl examples to your locale.
. Math booklets to go with the etc ... lecture notes, .pdf format, in these
. topics :
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. Measurement.
. Unit of Measure.
. Approximation and Estimation.
. Algebra.
. Geometry.
. Trigonometry.
. Calculus.
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. Paper Models to give as prizes. (several dozen)
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. Posters for the classroom,
. and .pdf booklets with copies of the posters for students.
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. Teachers Guides.
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. Flash cards and flash card activities.
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. Complete "Math in Space" website as an offline local use copy.
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. Many handbooks for supplementary topics,
. such as "human history in Space".
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. CD # 002, ~440 Meg. :
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. Images and movies.
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. For Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Phobos, Deimos.
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. CD # 003, ~400 Meg. :
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. MOVIES AND IMAGES For Earth.
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. CD # 004, ~ 150 Meg.(estimated) :
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. etc ... "copyleft" .html and .mp3 audio readings.
. on General Introduction, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Phobos,
. Deimos.
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. YOUR COMPUTER :
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. Images will do well with 500+ meg of memory, 256 meg minimum.
. 128 meg. may work, but no bets taken.
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. High res. video boards (64 meg video memory, 16 meg. minimum).
. ATI boards are cheap and work well.
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. IDE disks, but you can run straight off the CDs.
 SCSI MIGHT HELP SWAPPING FOR BIG IMAGES, BUT MORE MEMORY PREFERABLE (SCSI TOO 
SLOW).
. Use Browser and Notepad/Gedit/Kedit for everything.
. Use XMMS, WinAmp, Windows Media Player, Mozilla built-in audio,
.  RealPlayer 8 for audio.
. Video is javascript, gif animation, .avi or .mpg.
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. Not all soundboards work.
. Cheap Soundblasters DO work.
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. Big monitor is best, 17" minimum.
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. 1 gig processor more than adequate, 650 minimum.
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. ABOUT IMAGES :
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. 3D tiffs that let you move anywhere on a planet.
. Color hi-res tiffs of whole planets with zoom functions.
. High-res perspective views so you can conduct planetary field trips.
. All over 1 meg.
. Average 5-10 meg.
. Many 100+ meg.
. One over 40 meg.
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. Enjoy!
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. Mike eschman, etc ...
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