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Learning Visualized with the Vernier Go Direct Hand Dynamometer
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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…
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Back in 1986, David Vernier wrote a book titled “How to Build a Better Mousetrap: And 13 other science projects using the Apple II.” The premise of the book was to use software, hardware, and materials to construct what…
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The Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: Listening to Plants (Part 2)
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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…
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The Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: A picture is worth 570 wavelengths (Part 1)
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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…
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The Vernier Go Direct Sound Sensor: See Sounds in a New Light (Bluetooth)
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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…
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Fire Air Dephlogisticated and the Vernier Go Direct Wireless Oxygen Sensor
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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 in the…
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Wild Spirits: Measuring Life and Death with the Pasco Wireless CO2 sensor
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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…
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The Vernier Go Direct Motion Detector: A Modern Twist on a Timeless Design
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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…
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The Pasco Wireless Weather Station: Like having your own weather satellite
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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…
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The Vernier Go Direct Radiation Monitor: Well Worth the 90-Year Wait
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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…
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The Carson MicroMini 20x Pocket Microscope: An ounce of magnification is worth a pound of words.
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There are a surprising number of so-called “Pocket Microscopes” available today. I even remember pocket microscopes advertised in the pages of comic books back when I was a kid. And at that time, comic books were not…
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The Carson SkeleScope: Less is More and More is Good
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As the old saying goes, sometimes less is more. And such is the case with the Carson SkeleScope. Whether used to teach optics, engineering or perhaps even astronomy, having a clear view of the internals of a telescope…
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The Vernier Three-Axis Magnetic Field Sensor: A Magic Wand for Magnets
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What could be better than one anisotropic magnetoresistance magnetic field sensor? How about three anisotropic magnetoresistance magnetic field sensors and a Hall effect sensor as well! Pack them all into a lightweight…
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The Pasco Wireless Light Sensor: See the Light. And Measure it too.
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Within an understated white plastic box is found a dynamic and versatile sensor that effectively measures many forms of light, and gives the science class a peek into how we learn about the universe we live in. Yes,…
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The TI-Innovator Rover: A Vehicle for Coding a Vehicle
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With all the connectivity possible built into the TI-Innovator Hub, it was inevitable that programable motorized peripherals would become available for I-Hub. And that day has arrived. Texas Instruments, the maker of…
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