Earth and Solar System

• Celestia

  • Space simulation (the solar system and beyond - Open Source)

• Google Earth & Google SketchUp

  • Google Earth Web Site (not open source but FREE version available)

  • Google Earth SketchUp Web Site (not open source but FREE version available)

• Google SketchUp - SketchyPhysics

  • SketchyPhysics (SketchyPhysics is a plug-in for SketchUp (Windows Only). It combines a simple and easy to use interface with the power of a fast and accurate physics library, the Newton SDK. )

• Google SketchUp - Rendering Software

  • Kerkythea 2007 (Open Source)

  • indigo RENDERER (FREE for non-commercial use)
     

• Google Earth Tours (Google Earth must be installed before viewing these tours)

  • WSD Tours

    • South District Schools

    • Victoria-Albert School

    • Upper and Lower Fort Garry

  • WSD Documentation (these documents require Adobe Acrobat)

    • How to Make a Google Earth Tour

    • Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Earth

  • Google

    • Sight Seeing Tour

    • Africa Quiz (link to the original site)

  • GoogleLit Trips (link to original site)

    • Macbeth

    • Odyssey 2

    • Odyssey 3

• NASA

  • World Wind (includes World Wind Moon and World Wind Mars - Open Source)

• Earth and Solar System
• Statistics Resources
• Simulators
• Others
• Document Processing
• Drawing and Paint
• Animation 3D Programming
• SMART Notebook Activities

• Canadian

  • Statistics Canada

• Global

  • International Futures

• Flight

  • Flying Model Simulator - Local Download (open source)

  • Flying Model Simulator - Link to web site (open source)

    • Metasequoia - Free CAD Program to design aircraft for FMS

      • Tutorial for Metasequoia
        (not open source but FREE version available)

    • Landscape generator

    • Plane field editor

    • Aircraft (this self-extracting file contains a wide selection of aircraft)

    • SMART Notebook Flight Activity - Manitoba, Grade 6 Science Curriculum

    • WSD Documentation (how to use Flying Model Simulator)
      (requires Adobe Acrobat)

  • Flight Gear (open source)

• NASA Flight Resources

  • Aerodynamics Index

  • Learning Modules

  • Dryden Gallery

• NASA - Others

  • Virtual Lab (open source)

• Design Simulation Technology - Physics

  • Interactive Physics (commercial)
     

• West Point Bridge Designer

  • West Point Bridge Designer 2007
     

• A Science Odyssey You Try It Plate Tectonics

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/shockwave.html
     

• Educational Multimedia Visualization Centre
  (University of California – Santa Barbra)

  • http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php
     

• NASA Simulations

  • http://www.knowitall.org/nasa/simulations/science.html
     

• PhET  Physics Education Technology at CU Boulder

  • http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/index.php
     

• ForgeFX

  • http://www.forgefx.com/demos.htm
     

• Houghton Mufflin

  • http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmxs/
     

• Earth Kam – North Carolina

  • http://www.ncsu.edu/earthkam/simulation/
     

• North Harris College

  • http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
     

• Skool.ie

  • http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/junior.asp?id=3404

• Note Taking

  • EverNote (not open source but FREE version available)

• Random Name Selector

  • The Hat (free)

• Other Documentation (these documents require Adobe Acrobat)

  • Web links

• Desktop Publishing

  • Scribus (DTP software - open source)

• Office Suites

  • OpenOffice (open source)

• Drawing

  • Inkscape (very powerful drawing application - open source)

  • Dia (similar to Visio - open source)

• Paint

  • Paint.NET (very powerful paint program - free)

• Interior Design

  • Sweet Home 3D (Free interior design application, place furniture on a house 2D plan, preview in 3D.)

• 3D Programming / Interactive Game Development
  (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Alice

  • Storytelling Alice

• Animated Cartoon Drawing

  • CreaToon (not open source but FREE version available)

• CamStudio - Screen capturing and annotation

  • CamStudio (open source)

• Flash Capture

  • Browser tools - Flash Saving Plugin