Alice Example Worlds From 2008-2013

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Example Worlds Index

• Foreign Language & ESL
• Language Arts & Literature
• Mathematics
• Music, Dance, & Art
• Science
• Social Studies & History
• Technology
• General School
• Misc. Games

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Foreign Language & ESL

Name: Introductory Spanish Quiz
Author: Ruthie Tucker
Topic: Spanish Vocabulary

Brief Description: The user is shown a number of different animals in the desert. With each animal are three spanish vocabulary words. The user must select the spanish word that corresponds with the animal to move on.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Spanish Cooking Show
Author: Francine Wolfe
Topic: Spanish

Brief Description: An interactive cooking world originally created in Spanish. The user cooks with Alice to make banana bread and set the table, reviewing spanish vocabulary on the way. To learn how to create a simple version of this world, complete the 'Cooking Tutorial' under the 'Projects' heading on the tutorials page.

Links: Description Page, Alice World (Spanish), Alice World (English)

Note: For another example that uses foreign language, take a look at the pinata game example under Misc. Games. The game makes use of accented letters and special characters unique to some foreign languages.

Name: Order the images
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Activity

Brief Description: An interactive activity in which a collection of images from a storyboard are placed in random order. The user must then put them in the correct sequence so that the story makes sense Then, the user writes what happens in each picture in order to narrate it.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Language Arts & Literature

Name: Fog Poem Reading
Author: Kristin Bedell
Topic: Poetry

Brief Description: An animation of the poem "Fog" with voice narration. The scene of fog rolling in like a cat over the city and then leaving is narrated by a teacher at the Alice 2008 workshop at Duke. Includes a question at the end about a rhetorical device used in the poem.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Pj's Dream
Author: Michael Noto
Topic: Literature

Brief Description: An Alice world that is an animated story of PJ. The story illustrates PJ's relationship between his biggest fears and how he overcomes them to get to school.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Kitty Story
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Literature

Brief Description: An Alice world created in the summer of 2008. The animated story is based on children's book. It was created into an Alice animation and follows a day in the life of a kitty with a leg disability. Check the Alice Videos page for a video of the Alice animation.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Charlotte's Web Book Report
Author: Jenna Hayes
Topic: Literature

Brief Description: A book report on Charlott'es Web in Alice. The report goes through the setting, summary, characters, and even illustrates a scene from the book. You can learn how to create this world by going through the tutorial 'Book Report' under the 'Projects' heading in the tutorials section.

Links: Alice World

Name: Build a Snowman Game
Author: Dana Murphy
Topic: Grammar

Brief Description: An interactive world in which the user helps two penguins build a snowman. The pengiuns give the user a sentence, and ask the user if a certain word in the sentence is being used correctly. If they answer correctly, they get a piece of the snowman (incorrectly answered questions are returned to the question bank.) The game is over when they finish the snowman.

World: Alice World

Mathematics

Name: Nemo Learns Math
Author: Ruthie Tucker
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A school of fish take a math lesson from a stingray. The user must answer the math problems asked by the stingray. The difficulty level can be increased by editing the provided Alice world to suit different age groups.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Birthday Calculator
Author: Gaetjens Lezin
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A demonstration of a birthday calculator using an Algorithm developed by John Conway of Princeton University. The wizard will ask you to enter the date you were born and the then tells you what day you were born on.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Geometry Game
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: Area & Perimeter

Brief Description: A caterpillar asks you for the area and perimeter of a square, rectangle, and circle. If you enter the wrong answer, a help panel appears that, when clicked on, show you the formulas.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Geometry Program
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: Area & Perimeter

Brief Description: This is an "unfinished" version of the geometry game. The student needs to finish the program by adding in the math calculations. Once they have finished they can play the world and watch the animation to see if they got it right.

Links: Alice World, Description Page, Instructions PowerPoint, Instructions (pdf)

Name: Rounding Game
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: Math Game

Brief Description: An Alice game where the user must select the correct place value and determine how the number should respond when rounding.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Improper Fraction Story
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: Math - creating improper fractions

Brief Description: This is a story about a pizza party. The pet dog eats some of the pieces and the girl wants to figure out how many pieces are left. The calculation of an improper fraction is animated using the MAD method (multiply, add, denominator stays the same). This story is adapted from the book Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKeller (p. 44-46).

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Using Pearls to Understand Variables
Author: Francine Wolfe
Topic: Algebra

Brief Description: The idea for this world came from a book called Math Doesn't Suck by Danica McKellar (pgs. 244-246). An explanation of how variables work and how to solve an algebra problem using pearls as an analogy

Links: Alice World,

Name: Plotting Points, Lines, and Scatter Plots
Author: Francine Wolfe
Topic: Math Exercises

Brief Description: Three Alice worlds that use a coordinate plane to create exercieses for plotting points, lines, and scatter plots in Alice. For a tutorial on how to create and use the coordinate system to plot points see the Plotting Points tutorial under the projects heading on the tutorial page.

Links: Plotting Points, Plotting Line, Bike Plot, Description Page

Name: Order of Operations
Author: Francine Wolfe
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A simple world that gives the user an equation and guides the user through solving it, focusing on the order of operation.



Links: Finished World, Description Page

Name: Order Of Operations 2
Author: Chris Brown
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: This is a more detailed version of the order of operation world above that allows students to interact and solve numeric equations.

Links: Alice World

Name: Reducing Simple Fractions
Author: Peggy Li
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A world to help students practice reducing simple fractions by finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numerator and denominator. The student clicks on the number to set its value, and a brief explanation of each answer is shown.

Links: Alice World

Name: Scientific Notation
Author: Peggy Li
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: This world explains what scientific notation is and how to write a number in scientific notation, then provides practice problems that ask the student to convert a number to scientific notation. A teacher can easily change the preset examples to new numbers. NC Standard Course of Study, Grade 6 Mathematics: Competency Goal 1, Objective 1.06

Links: Alice World

Name: Basketball Math
Author: Chris Brown
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A math game that quizzes students on their multiplication skills by quizzing the students on random multiplication problems.

Links: Alice World

Name: Magic Bunny Game
Author: Dana Murphy
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A quiz game in which the user competes against other magic bunnies to earn their wings. The user first chooses a bunny character and then answer questions about adding and subtracting negative numbers. Each correct answer makes their wings appear a bit more. The other bunnies also answer questions, making it a competition to see whose wings appear first.

World: Alice World

Name: Simplifying Fractions
Author: Dana Murphy
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: An interactive world in which the user simplifies certain fractions. The user presses the red button to generate a random fraction. They then change the numerator and denominator on the right to set the fraction equal to the most simplified version of the left fraction. They then press the green button to test their answer, and the bunny works through how to find the simplified fraction with the user.

Links: Alice World

Name: Binary Game
Author: Michael Hoyle
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: A game that helps students learn and practice forming the binary representation of decimal numbers. Click on the penguins to toggle between 0 and 1.

Links: Alice World, Binary Penguin Object

Name: Bird Graphing
Author: Michael Hoyle
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description: This Alice world allows students to plot and view the graphs of different mathematical functions by modifying myFunction.

Links: Alice World

Name: Fraction World
Author: Chris Brown
Topic: Mathematics

Brief Description:This interactive world allows students to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions.

Links: Alice World

Music, Dance & Art

Name: Art Skeleton
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: Art Model

Brief Description: A world showing the model of a human build entirely out of 3D shapes. The world comes with multiple camera views and positions for the model to be in to help visualize how to draw different figures.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Ballerina Dance
Author: Ruthie Tucker
Topic: Dance

Brief Description: An Alice animation targeted toward girls. A line of ballerina dancers do a dance before the camera moves to the stars of the show. Each ballerina is a figure from the workshop team in 2008. Check out the video page for a video of this animation.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Music Lesson
Author: Jenna Hayes
Topic: Music

Brief Description: An Alice world developed to demonstrate how sound and questions can be used to create an interactive educational game in Alice. The game comes with sound clips to illustrate and explain four different instruments found in the orchestra.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Music Theory World
Author: Jenna Hayes
Topic: Elementary Music Theory

Brief Description: A two part quiz world in which you can either be drilled on treble and bass clef note identification, or treble clef scale identification.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Science

Name: Arctic World
Author: Ruthie Tucker
Topic: Environmental Science

Brief Description: An interactive tour sharing facts about the arctic and anarctic regions of the world. Your tour guide is a native who shows you his igloo and a semi frozen lake. The user gets to steer the boat on the lake to find animals.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Bar Chart World
Author: Liz Liang
Topic: Biology

Brief Description: An example for how to use ALice to collect and display data. The viewer is lead through an activity where he/she changes the fish population in a pond. Afterwards, the data is presented on a bar chart. A tutorial exaplaining how to create a bar chart world is included.

Links: Alice World, tutorial .pdf, tutorial .ppt

Name: Atmosphere World
Author: Liz Liang
Topic: Environmental Science

Brief Description: An exploration of the different layers of earth's atmosphere. Includes an example of how bar charts can be used to display changing variables, in this case pressure and temperature.

Links: Alice World, Movie

Name: Water World
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Environmental Science

Brief Description: An exploration of several environments where water is found. Areas explored include deserts, oceans, the sky, and rivers. At each location, an animal will explain the significance of water.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Moon Questions
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Space

Brief Description: A user interactive world in which a scientist woman asks a series of scientific questions about the moon and the history of human space exploration. A range of questions are asked: multiple choice, true/false, and fill in the blank.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Lac Operon
Author: Liz Liang
Topic: Biology

Brief Description: An interactive simulation that teaches students how the lac operon regulates the production of lactase. Students are able to change the levels of glucose and lactose in the cell and see how transcription rate is affected.

Links: Alice World

Name: Hot Spot Volcano
Author: Stephen Jones
Topic: Earth Science

Brief Description: An interactive Alice movie where a scientist goes underwater to explain how a hotspot volcano is formed. The scene takes place underwater, under the earth's crust, and finally above the ocean. To see a video of this animation go to the Alice Videos section of the site.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Build a Snowman Game
Author: Dana Murphy
Topic: Physics

Brief Description: A lesson that explains uniform circular motion through a bird flying around a sphere. The lesson is divided into three sections that can be revisited at the end of the lesson. Each section also includes a question about the topics and formulas learned. This world is made for highschool level physics.

World: Alice World

Social Studies & History

Name: Ancient Egypt Tour
Author: Ruthie Tucker
Topic: Egypt

Brief Description: Cleopatra walks the user through a virtual world modelled after ancient Egypt. She provides information about the Nile, the great structures of Egypt, as well as a tour through a pyramid where the user meets three Egyptian Gods.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: A Historical Tour of the Brooklyn Bridge
Author: Jenna Hayes
Topic: History

Brief Description: A historical tour of the Brooklyn bridge from the architect who designed it. You can learn how to create this world by going through the tutorial 'Historial Tour' under the 'Projects' heading in the tutorials section.

Links: Alice World

Technology

Name: Camera Angles
Author: Jarrod Hasselbauer
Topic: Film

Brief Description:An Alice world that demos the different types of camera angles used when using a video camera. It demonstrates wide shots, pairs, mid shots, head and shoulders shots, and close ups.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Character on Island
Author: Chris Brown
Topic: Alice

Brief Description: This Alice world is an activity to introduce students to programming in Alice. In this world, you will learn how to add and arrange objects in an Alice world, create your own character using the He/She Builder, explore the built-in methods of objects in Alice, create a new method for your character, understand and create new events, and use the "vehicle" property. A tutorial for this world will be created in the summer of 2013.

Links: Alice World, Handout: .pdf, .ppt

General School

Name: School Safety
Author: Elaine Witowski
Topic: First Week Information

Brief Description: An Alice world that shows what happens to those that do not obey school safety rules. When some students stay outside during a lock down, they are eaten by zombies.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: First Day of Class
Author: Debby Martin
Topic: Expected Behavior

Brief Description: An Alice world that humorously introduces viewers to the teacher, Mrs. Martin. The three other ladies in the world cause a scene, contrasting with the sweet Mrs. Martin who is dressed in scuba gear.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Classroom Recursion
Author: Lana Dyck
Topic: General School

Brief Description: A world showing the power of recursive code in Alice. The scene shows students filling in the seats in the classroom in a random order. The students come in randomly and sit down in a random open chair until the class is full.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Misc. Games

Name: Building Blocks Game
Author: Stephen Jones
Topic: Game

Brief Description: This is a game in which there are blocks that are setup into an organized shape (mostly stacked up on each other) and the user has to move a set of identical blocks into the same shape with a certain time limit.
Game was modified in 2011 so that when a block is close to its correct position, it snaps into place.

World: Alice World without snap into place,
World2: Alice World with snap into place motion
Description: Description Page

Name: Memory Game
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Music Game

Brief Description: A game with a line of penguins, each one representing a note on a scale. The object of the game is to memorize the sequence of notes and play them back by clicking on the penguins. With each level the number of notes in the sequence increases by one.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Pinata Game
Author: Maggie Bashford
Topic: Spanish Game

Brief Description: An Alice game where the user must hit the pinata with a baseball bat a certain number of times before the timer counts down to 0 in order to win. If the user wins the pinata will break, if the pinata will simply fall over.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Bingo Game
Author: Sarah Zhang
Topic: Misc. Game

Brief Description: A non-interactive game with 2 players and random numbers 0-100.

Links: Alice World

Name: Tic Tac Toe Game
Author: Deborah Nelson
Topic: Game

Brief Description: An interactive game in which the human plays against the computer. This game is an example of how the computer makes decisions by using random numbers.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: iSpy
Author: Aleis Murphy
Topic: Search Game

Brief Description: A game with items scattered around the world. The user can choose from two tasks: seek or spy. In seeking, the user tries to find the object that the computer has randomly chosen. In spying, the user chooses an object and it is the computers job to guess what that object is. For either case, when the object has been discovered, the game ends.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Magic Eight Ball
Author: Aleis Murphy
Topic: Game

Brief Description: A simulation of a magic eight ball. The user asks a question and then clicks on the ball. It shakes and then turns, displaying the answer to the user. After five seconds, everything resets itself and the world goes back to the way it started.

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Ninja Mario Game
Author: Francine Wolfe
Topic: Game

Brief Description:A game similar to classic versions of Mario Bros. This game uses random events (releasing a random object, good or bad, from boxes which are hit) and collision detection (jumping over boxes, touching items in the world)

Links: Alice World, Description Page

Name: Platform Game
Author: Dana Murphy
Topic: Game

Brief Description: A platform game with a polygonal theme. The user chooses a character and jumps from shape to shape (many of which are moving, turning, etc.) to reach the end. The game focuses on use of collision detection to simulate landing and falling. If the user falls, they can press space to return to their last checkpoint (the white squares.)

Links: Alice World