Alice Example Worlds Summer 2009

Note: This material is still constantly being revised and added to.

Example Worlds

Foreign Language

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

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.

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

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).

Links: Alice World, Description Page

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: 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: 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

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

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

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: 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: 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: 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