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Texas Instruments CBL, a portable data acquisition device, brings real world data collection to the classroom. Students design and collect data from experiments on motion, cooling, and rotation. Data is shared with student calculators for interpretation and data fitting. CBL is a tool that can be used across the whole year. What do I get? One CBL interface with temp, and light probes, a Sonic Ranger, a work book with software to run the CBL and probes. What do I need to use it? TI Graphing Calculators, TI Graph LINK software, an LCD panel and display calculator. What content is in a lesson? Click here to view the introductory activity for CBL. Getting the interface to work is the first challenge. Experts are on-line to help you over glitches. Hands On Physicspresents a sophisticated way to experience hands-on experiments in mechanics with inexpensive materials. HOP builds on core investigations in kinematics, dynamics, electronics, and heat. Students build models and instruments to measure a wide variety of phenomena. The approach taken by HOP is very much a dialogue of science; student teams design and build their projects. Their discussions, successes and failures with the projects bring the culture of science to life in the classroom. HOP is a module that can be used throughout the year or as a project based design segment in any physical science class. What do I get? A web based teacher's guide including four core projects and HOP kit with all materials and tools needed for two projects. What do I need to use it? All materials are provided in the HOP kit. Good lab tables and storage space for projects is required. What content is in a lesson? Click here to view an activity for Hands On Physics. Building the dynamics cart or the bungee jump form projects for the kinematics unit. Measurement in Motion defining, graphing, and analyzing motion with data from QuickTime movies. MIM is currently available for MAC only. A PC version is planned. With MIM students take data from frames of quicktime movies. The data is graphed and interpreted. Student made movies can be analyzed. MIM is designed for middle school and beginning algebra students. It is a tool that can be used throughout the year. What do I get? A full teacher's guide and CD with 100 clips AND a license to use MIM with any computer in the INTEC teachers' room or on any lab machine used by the INTEC teacher. What do I need to use it? Macintosh computers with a CD drive with 4 meg of disk space and 16 meg of RAM. Making home grown movies requires an AV machine with a capture board. What content is in a lesson? Click here to view the introductory activity for Measurement in Motion. Animations guide users on the interface and potential for the tool. VideoPoint permits simple to sophisticated analysis of quicktime movie clips to explore the mathematics and physics of motion. VideoPoint is a sophisticated tool that permits student to apply mathematical modeling to real situations. Cartesian and polar coordinates are supported. An elegant curve fitting module permits accurate probing of data fits and error estimates. The combination of visual data and numerical and graphic analysis is unique and a most powerful learning tool. VP can be used as a data gathering tool with analysis done on students' graphing calculators. Student movie clips can be analysed as well. VideoPoint is a tool that can be used throughout the year. What do I get? A teacher's guide and CD with over 100 clips and one copy of the VideoPoint program. What do I need to use it? Windows or Macintosh computers with a CD drive with 4 meg of disk space and 16 meg of RAM. What content is in a lesson? Click here to view an activity for VIDEOPOINT. Visual data lets students interact with phenomena they can understand and explore mathematically. Experts are on-line to give a vision on how the tool works in a classroom.

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