A teacher's manual for using sensors and data logging software with pupils aged 11-18
This ebook about using sensors in science teaching has ideas and activities for all makes sensors and software. There are over 50 experiment sheets with science investigations and control technology mini-projects.
Data logging and Control illustrates the many aspects of science which can be explored with sensors. It is a practical guide and a bank of ideas showing what data logging and control is and where it fits into science education.
Investigations and experiments
The book aims to show how sensors help young scientists both to measure and to investigate in science. It provides teacher and pupil guides to finding out how we can keep warm, what sound can travel through or what colour clothing a cyclist should wear. It also provides details of how to do many new and classic experiments such as studying germination, radioactive decay or rates of reactions. The ideas are applicable to any system or computer you might have. You will find details on all the sensors available and what they can be used for. There is a glossary, a guide to assessment and a topic by topic index. Data logging and Control is the science teacher’s definitive reference book for using sensors in science. While this is essentially a book about data logging, examples of using sensors with control technology are also included and particularly where this impinges on science teaching.
This 2004 ebook edition (first published 1994) has served its time in print and is ready for archiving. Teacher are welcome to pillage this edition for classroom ideas.
A companion volume The IT in Secondary Science Book covers the uses of other IT tools while Data logging in Practice deals with the practicalities of implementing data logging in science teaching.
What they said about it
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". .. indeed the whole book is outstanding in its comprehensive nature, its potential appeal to even the less experienced of teachers, its layout and language." The School Science Review |
