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It’s more than just power, it’s teaching potential: Vernier Go Direct Sensors and Micro USB Charging
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Power powers. It’s that simple. With all our digital tools, there is at least one common thread across it all and that is we need a flow of electrons to keep the teaching and learning in high gear. But of course…
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Videographing with The PocketLab: Experimental Imagination Unplugged
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Imagine a little white box of about 30 cubic centimeters or a third of the size of a deck of cards. And only 23 grams. Now imagine that that little box can effortlessly and wirelessly measure and share data about motion…
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The Surefire FirePak: A Smartphone Science Studio Lighting Solution
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As smartphone cameras take on an ever-more sophisticated role in the science classroom, the technical limits of phone photography become more apparent. Luckily, a dose of strong light can overcome many…
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The goTenna Off-Grid Communication Device: Take A "Cell Network" on your next Field Trip
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Imagine co-leading a science field trip indoors in a large museum with questionable cell coverage, or outside and too far from the nearest cell tower. The goTenna system allows you to directly contact another goTenna…
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The Celestron Micro-Fi Wireless Digital Microscope: A Handful of Wow!
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The term “wireless” does not so much describe what is, but instead what isn’t. And what isn’t is wires. What’s strange about many wireless technologies is there was never a wired version to begin with so describing the…
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The Carson HookUpz 2.0: The Missing Link Between Camera and Eyepiece
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Over the years I have held digital cameras and phones up to the eyepieces of telescopes, spotting scopes, binoculars, and most often microscopes to take pictures, capture video, and stream imagery to projectors and TVs…
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The Micro Phone Lens: A Tiny Solution to a Huge Problem
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Other than computer code, the Micro Phone Lens just might be the lightest accessory you can add to your tablet or phone. Weighing in at a fraction of a gram, the tiny lens leverages the optical power of existing cameras…
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The Texas Instruments TI-Innovator Hub: A Magic Box to Code
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The TI-Innovator Hub is essentially a micro controller system offering plug-and-play interaction with some TI graphing calculators. Using a coding language entered on the keypad of Ti-84 Plus CE and better calculators,…
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The Vernier LabQuest Stream: The Absolute Hub of Discovery
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“Stream” Nouns are useful, but verbs are educational. So when Vernier released their LabQuest Stream sensor interface into the wild, the familiar grey box quickly proved to be much more than just a powerful…
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Vernier Turns Up The Pressure with the new Pressure Sensor 400
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The new Vernier Pressure Sensor 400 is one small step up in price, but one giant leap in performance. With an exceptional operational temperature range, and secure metal fittings makes the Vernier Pressure Sensor…
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First Look: Hands on with the Pasco Wireless Temperature Sensor
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The humble electronic thermometer is often the gateway technology into the world of digital data collection, and Pasco Scientific just made that tech much more affordable. And Bluetooth to boot! Whether measuring…
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The iPad Pro: Hands-on Observations
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The iPad Pro is, at its core, a larger iPad. Larger screen. Larger speakers (four of them), larger keyboard, larger processor, and larger resolution. But so what? Well, I guess it depends on whether or not you…
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The PASCO Bluetooth Spectrometer: Even Isaac Newton would flip over the power of this digital prism!
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The PASCO Wireless Spectrometer Simply put, constructivism is a theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. So it…
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The Vernier Go Wireless Link: A Bluetooth Broadcaster for your Sensors
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Vernier’s new Go Wireless Link is a small but effective solution to expand the scope and reach of over 40 sensors. Using a Bluetooth bridge between sensor and computer or tablet, and a usable range extending…
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Get Lost in the Magic of Learning with the Celestron Flipview Digital Microscope
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One of the wonderful things about the amazing science education technology available to teachers today is that the tech can disappear—in a good way. The Celestron Flipview digital microscope is one of them.…
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