[OLPC library] Scratch cartoons for physics and health education - New universal language?

[Brown, Henry, DoIT]

My son would love Howtoons unfortunately the graphics are complex.
They take forever to download? Any ideas? Scratch is much faster.(www.scratch.mit.edu)
 
Henry Brown
henry.brown at state.nm.us
cell 795-3680
office 505 827-2509

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From: Yoshiki Ohshima [mailto:yoshiki at vpri.org]
Sent: Wed 1/30/2008 1:24 PM
To: Edward Cherlin; Brown, Henry, DoIT; William Kendrick; arjunsarwal at gmail.com; library at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [OLPC library] Scratch cartoons for physics and health education - New universal language?



> > But Physics is my son's passion.
> > Where to find basic physics cartoons that motivate kids? Make them? He
> > wanted fusion reactors?
>
> Larry Gonick, The Cartoon Guide to Physics
>
> See also Roy Doty, Wordless Workshop, which is about do-it-yourself
> projects around the home. His technique should be understood by
> everybody in this education space.

  Yes, there is a theory that science, technology, and mathematics are
pretty much the same thing for the younger kids (just something to
play with) but later these concepts are differenciated as kids mature,
making stuff based on physics could be an effective learning step.

  So, "Howtoons" http://www.howtoons.com/toons/ is another set of
interesting cartoons for making stuff.

-- Yoshiki

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