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Go Big with Vernier's Go Wireless pH Sensor
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The Vernier Go Wireless (Bluetooth) pH sensor Go Big with Vernier’s Go Wireless pH Sensor pH, like time and temperature, is a physical characteristic that is tossed around daily in science class but rarely…
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Fun and Science with the Weatherhawk myMET digital Windmeter
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Checking the windspeed on the Slickrock trail in Moab, Utah. The air was moving at a steady 18 miles per hour. Just enough to make you a little nervous when bicycling along cliff edges. As you can see in the picture the…
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The Pasco Wireless Dissolved Oxygen Probe VS. Winter Water
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The power of a Bluetooth-connected Dissolved Oxygen probe is not only from the DO data, but the places the data can be collected, and the ways the data is presented. Over the holidays I took the Pasco wireless DO probe…
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The Vernier Motion Encoder System: Motion Encoding Made Personal
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The Vernier Motion Encoder System marks a significant shift in the science teacher’s ability to transition between the conceptual, formula-based physics of motion to the “real world” application of those concepts and…
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Going Wild with the Go Wireless Temp Sensor
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The sensor is fairly small compared to an iPad Air. The new Go Wireless Temp sensor is a welcome addition to the suite of Bluetooth tools produced by Vernier that are available for the iPad. While not much larger than…
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Dissolving the Barriers to Measuring Dissolved Oxygen
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The amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) in water is a critical component in the aquatic ecosystem. While measuring the level of DO is a common practice in water quality studies, the sensors often used to capture the data…
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Google Glass: A Lab on the End of your Nose
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Over the summer I had the privilege of watching a 5th grader take Google Glass for a spin. The student was far faster at mastering the interface than I was, and also much more creative in his application of Google…
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Flatten the Classroom with the iGo Microscope
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Although many handheld technologies of Star Trek seem antiquated, or perhaps even steam punkish in todays world, there are still a few pieces of Treknata that we dream of. But that list just got one item shorter with…
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Upping the Ante: A Classroom Gas Chromatograph!
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The gas chromatograph, until recently, has been a founding member in the exclusive club of scientific instrumentation that lived only in the rarified air of serious scientific laboratories. Other members of the club…
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Instant Inquiry with iPad and Hand Dryer
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Have you ever wondered how fast the air comes out of those newly designed hand dryers? Or perhaps how loud in decibels the fan is. The iPad is a great device for answering this and many other questions on the fly. …
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Russian Meteor Fertile Ground for High Tech Exploration…On Your Classroom Computer
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The fall of what is unofficially named the Chelyabinsk Meteor (soon to be meteorite) has produced a staggering number of videos. Whether police dashboard camera, cell phone, ATM camera, traffic camera, parking lot…
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iPad Simple Harmonic Motion with Household Parts
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Simple harmonic motion is not only a foundational topic in physical science, but also a major player in many different fields from music to engineering to architecture, to sports. The iPad can be used to generate a real…
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A fascinating feature of a popular astronomy app called Star Walk is the augmented reality feature that uses a device’s camera to blend educational imagery with reality. Star Walk is a well-known app due to its…
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Five things you should put on your iPad Camera
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The tablet computer like the iPad can be a magic box of inquiry. For instance, it has a camera, and in particular a front facing camera. Why that is important is because students can manipulate objects on the camera and…
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iPad Science Exploration: Visualizing Brainwave Entrainment
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Brainwave entrainment or “brainwave synchronization,” is any practice that aims to cause brainwave frequencies to fall into step with a periodic stimulus having a frequency corresponding to the intended brain-state (at…
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