Project Design and Framing
 Working as a team create an alternative
problem statement (Working Backwards
Task, Troubleshooting task, Experimental
problem, or …) that requires the students to
create a computational model as part of the
problem.
Working Backwards Tasks
 Students are given a v vs. t graph and have
to construct a computational model that
would create the given graph.
Troubleshooting Task
 Give students a program that has
deliberately bad(incorrect) physics and they
need to correct the physics in the program.
Experimental Problem
 Given some data from a rocket launch
(position vs time) create a computational
model that accurately describes this data.
Use the model to predict the behavior of
another rocket.
What if anything is wrong
 Give students a program that may or may
not have something wrong with it…... If
something is wrong, identify it, and explain
how to correct. If correct, explain why.
Conflict Contentions
 Give students several program that claim to
describe the same phenomena, have
students determine which program they
agree with.
Project Includes
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Description of Task/Problem Statement
Video of your Visualization
Sample Solution
Rubric
Notes for the instructor