Advanced form of NetLοgo’s forest fire model: A teaching approach to primary students
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Sep 17, 2024
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NetLogo fire simulation
Abstract
In this paper, a teaching intervention is proposed and described, methodologically based on guided inquiry, while interacting with computers and using the modeling, simulation and programming tool of NetLogo. We have evolved the pre-existing model “Fire” (from the Models’ Library of NetLogo) and added additional parameters such as wind speed and direction, the possibility of low humidity and the ability to set the focus of the fire in the center. The above approach is implemented in 4th grade students from a school in Athens. Our goal is for students to understand the basic concepts that govern the “complex” fire system by interacting with the simulation.
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