Easy Java Simulations for Inquiry Based Learning in STEM Disciplines

scientific

Teacher

Secondary Education

Applications in STEM disciplines will be developed using EJS including tasks, like:

• formulating the STEM problem in a way suitable for simulations
• choosing an efficient computational algorithm
• writing and testing computer code
• running the simulations and collecting numerical data
• analyzing and visualizing the data obtained
• extracting the solution of the physics problem
• applying the featues of Inquiry Based to construct didactic scenario for High school and Tertiary level  

2015-04-29 13:00:00 - 2015-04-29 18:00:00

15 - 20

Provide opportunities for students to develop a wide range of intellectual and other skills transferable to many jobs and professions

120 minutes

EJS give teachers the tools to create their own simulation and explain in detail to students the laws and the concepts that are beneath every formalization.

Every simuation can be altered in any way the creator wants. In that way any variables or different aspects of the under study phenomenon can be implemented and in detail presented.

Manual in Greek

Easy Java Simulations is a software tool (java code generator) designed for the creation of discrete computer simulations.  

A discrete computer simulation, or simply a computer simulation, is a computer program that tries to reproduce, for pedagogical or scientific purposes, a natural phenomenon through the visualization of the different states that it can have. Each of these states is described by a set of variables that change in time due to the iteration of a given algorithm.

EJS has been designed to let its user work at a high conceptual level, using a set of simplified tools, and concentrating most of his/her time on the scientific aspects of the “model of simulation”, asking the computer to automatically perform all the other necessary but easily automated tasks.  Nevertheless, the final result, which is automatically generated by EJS description, can, in terms of efficiency and sophistication, be taken as the creation of a professional programmer.

 In particular, EJS creates Java applications that are platform independent, or applets that can be visualized using any Web browser (and therefore distributed through the Internet), which read data across the net, and which can be controlled using scripts from within web pages.