1. Interactive Learning Environments By Darcy Hampton

2. Definition  A The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000) provides the computer science definition as of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.  A similar definition is provided by webopedia.com as it describes interactive as accepting input from a human.

3. Focus  On learning through interaction with the computer

4. Types of Interactive Learning Environments  Educational Games  Educational Simulations  Inquiry Projects  Virtual Field trips and labs

5. Educational Games  Quia www.quia.com www.quia.com  Neuroscience for kids http://faculty.washi ngton.edu/chudl er/chgames.html

6. Educational Simulations  Virtual labs and simulations http://www.hazelw ood.k12.mo.us/~ grichert/sciweb/a pplets.html

7. Virtual Field Trips  Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu/  Koshland http://www.koshland-science- museum.org/index.jsp

8. Online Inquiry Projects  WISE http://wise.berkeley.edu/ http://wise.berkeley.edu/  NASA’s Quest Projects http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

9. Online Labs  The Biology Place http://www.phschool.com/scie nce/biology_place/labbench/ http://www.phschool.com/scie nce/biology_place/labbench/  Virtual Courseware http://www.sciencecourseware.org/GLOL/ http://www.sciencecourseware.org/GLOL/

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