Bouncing Ball¶

Run the Bouncing Ball MicroSim Fullscreen

Place the following line in your website to include this in your course.

<iframe src="https://dmccreary.github.io/zensical-test/sims/bouncing-ball/main.html" height="432px" scrolling="no"></iframe>

The bouncing ball is the "Hello World!" of the Educational MicroSims. It contains the key elements that show the power of width-responsive MicroSim graphics with movement and user interaction. When we design MicroSims, we also want clearly-visible user interface elements in the control area that can control the running of our simulations. This version contains a slider to control the speed of the ball's movement.

This particular MicroSim was added as a test page for the site's social media preview override (see overrides/main.html): this page declares its own image: in the frontmatter above, so sharing this page's URL should show the bouncing-ball screenshot as the preview image instead of the book's cover.

Lesson Plan¶

Here we would place the text for how the Bouncing Ball might be used in a classroom setting.