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Author Archives: Martin Horejsi
Learning Visualized with the Vernier Go Direct Hand Dynamometer
Collecting real-time data is important in science and science education, but it also presents a wonderful opportunity to learn about graphing and data visualization in general. It also provides an inspection into what learning actually looks like. I’ve used the … Continue reading
The Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: Listening to Plants (Part 2)
Continuing the story of the Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer, we will now apply its power it for a more traditional use; to inspect the transmission and absorption of fluid or a material suspended in a fluid. And that fluid … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluetooth, botany, chemistry, light, physics, probe, Spectrometer, spectrometry, STEM, technology, Vernier
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The Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: A picture is worth 570 wavelengths (Part 1)
Of all the cool things invented by the universe, light is one of the most amazing. It solves all kinds of problems, can travel great distances with little effort, and its very existence has become possibly the greatest metaphor ever. And on … Continue reading
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Tagged app, Bluetooth, chemistry, Go Direct, inquiry, iOS, light, physics, Spectrometer, SpectroVis, STEM, technology, Vernier
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The Vernier Go Direct Sound Sensor: See Sounds in a New Light (Bluetooth)
As much as I loved field trips with my students, I found the bus rides to be excessively stressful. It wasn’t because of the teacher responsibilities or the student behavior, but because of the noise. The volume and diversity of … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, Bluetooth, dB, deaf, decibels, Go Direct, hearing, loudness, physics, sound, technology, Vernier
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Fire Air Dephlogisticated and the Vernier Go Direct Wireless Oxygen Sensor
Oxygen is one of those very cool elements that can both save a life and kill whether in absence or abundance. Oxygen is necessary for life as we know it, but yet it oxidizes one of the most common elements … Continue reading
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Tagged altitude, chemistry, elevation, oxygen, Probeware, sensor, technology, Vernier
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Wild Spirits: Measuring Life and Death with the Pasco Wireless CO2 sensor
A student once asked me why if carbon dioxide is so much heavier than air, how come the lower atmosphere doesn’t become thick with CO2 and kill everything? “Umm, well…because it…umm…doesn’t?” The student then asked if I was going to … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, carbon dioxide, chemistry, CO2, ipad, Mars, oxygen, Pasco, sparkvue, venus, wireless
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The Vernier Go Direct Motion Detector: A Modern Twist on a Timeless Design
Vernier Software and Technology has introduced the next generation of its ultrasonic motion detector. While the gold circle sensor portion looks much like it’s previous five generations, the self-contained battery power source, the cubic form factor and most importantly the … Continue reading
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Tagged computer, Go Direct, graphical, iPhone, logger pro, motion, motion detector, Probeware, sensor, sonar, ultrasonic, Vernier
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The Pasco Wireless Weather Station: Like having your own weather satellite
For almost 2000 years, Aristotle’s ideas about weather were the industry standard. Although our hindsight confirmed that many of the theories Aristotle put forth in his work Meteorologica were in error, the depth and breath of his observations and inferences … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluetooth, climate, humidity, Pasco, Probeware, sensor, sparkvue, temperature, weather, wireless
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The Vernier Go Direct Radiation Monitor: Well Worth the 90-Year Wait
Stephen Hawking died recently marking 2018 as another date in science history from which events will be measured. Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the same year Galileo died. And it is that 1642 date that is often used as … Continue reading