To learn Squeak (or anything) try to work with it a little each day. Try to write a simple program each day.

Rain simulation

Basics of graphing data

List the project idea, what concepts it teaches and what eToys techniques it uses

• Project where user controls person (animated) walking around world. Person can interact with objects in world. (simplified dungeon world)
• Project with animated spider walking aroud, chasing or fighting people
• Canon simulation shooting sideweys at various targets
• Help learning fractions and improper numbers
• oscillating spring with graph

• Squeak project on weather - draw mtns, lake, river & sea; show water evaporation from ocean;
  • wind blows moist air / cloud over to mt; saturated cloud drops rain into lake or mtn;
  • cloud dissappears when water vapor volume drops below certain level;
  • have evaporation process run independently - if ocean / lake runs out of water, it stops;
  • couds appear & dissapear depending on how much water they contain;
  • maybe keep a count of raindrops to keep track of water vapor;
  • have viewers to show amount of water in different places;
  • make project in stages, each one building on the previous one, each adding more of the total concepts (evaporation, saturation, cooler clouds can't hold as much water, etc);
    • maybe mtn, river and lake;
    • vary temperature to increase/decrease evaporation;

• write a program each day; can be simple one