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Category Archives: NSTA Recommends: Technology
The PocketLab Air Sensor
Introduction The PocketLab Air Sensor is a fantastic tool for investigating the validity of fluctuations in climate and air pollution in your own community. As a result, teachers can offer students an instrument to measure what’s in the air (i.e., CO2, … Continue reading
Launching the PocketLab Voyager
Intro Exploring motion, light, temperature, altitude, and magnetic fields can be taken to new interactive heights with the PocketLab Voyager by Myriad Sensors. Subsequently, by using a wireless sensor, the PocketLab Voyager records and stores data that can be shared with … Continue reading
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Tagged christmann, Experiment, labs, PocketLab Voyager, probe
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Measuring Murphy’s Law with the Vernier Go Direct Acceleration Sensor
On the 4th of July this year, a fitting date, America lost a true hero whom many people had never heard of, namely Robert Gilliland. Bob Gilliland was the chief test pilot and first person to fly the iconic SR-71 … Continue reading
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Tagged acceleration, Acceleration Sensor, g force, Genesis, Gilliland, JPL, NASA, sr-71, Stardust, Vernier
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PITSCO Hot-Air Balloons
The “Zoon Hot-Air Balloons Getting Started Package” contains all the materials necessary for a class of 30 students to construct and launch their own hot air balloons. The kit is designed for students in Grades 3-12 and is user friendly. … Continue reading
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Tagged christmann, Edwin Christmann, Hot air balloon, Pitsco, Zoon
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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
PASCO Wireless Pressure Sensor
Introduction: The PASCO Wireless Pressure sensor is easy to use and connects via Bluetooth to the user’s cell phone or to another electronic device, e.g., IPad. The sensor has a range of 0-400 kilopascals (kPa)- with its most accurate reported … Continue reading
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Pasco's Wireless Light Sensor Revisited using SPARKvue…
Introduction: The PASCO Wireless light sensor is a wireless device that measures ambient and directional light. Moreover, it has the capacity to stream data to devices via a Bluetooth connection, e.g., laptops, iPhones, or Android phones. There is a picture … Continue reading
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Tagged christmann, Pasco, Pasco's Wireless Light Sensor, sparkvue, wireless
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The PASCO Wireless Smart Car
Introduction: The PASCO Wireless Smart Cart is a device with Bluetooth capabilities that has sensors for force, position, velocity, rotational motion, and three degrees of freedom in acceleration. The wheels on the Smart Cart moves with low friction. A nice … Continue reading
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Tagged christmann, force, Pasco, physics, Smart Cart, Velocity
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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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