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The items marked * are links to a manufacturer's website. Here you may find demonstration copies of software download and then sample the data files within them. At other links the data will be more immediately accessible - look for 'SID' files text files that you can open (or import) with your data logging software or with data handling software such as MS Excel. Clicking on a link will often take you off this site so appreciate that  some 'link rot' will set in over time. If you find one thing that's useful, be happy. Also send in your contributions and ideas for making things smoother.  We last checked this on  

Teaching

Why use ICT? 9

When or when not to use ICT 10

Using software to handle data 12

What do you do with a graph? 15

Choosing a teaching scenario 16

Support and staff development 18

Practical teaching issues 20

Events and open days 22

Organising

Ways to organise resources 23

Choosing a hardware scenario 25

Hardware

Labels for equipment 26

Displays on a bigger screen 27

Types of data logging interface 29

Shortlisting a data logging interface 30

Types of sensors 31

Choosing sensors - a shortlist 37

Physics

Teaching about motion 38

Motion - distance - time graphs 40

Motion - measure reaction time 40

Motion - measuring speed circus 41

How fast do you walk? 42

A Bicycle Journey 43

Motion - changing speed 44

Motion - velocity in free fall 45

Motion - force, mass & acceleration 46

* Motion - momentum 47

Pendulum and oscillator 48

Exploring pendulum swings 49

Pendulum - potential energy 52

Electricity - current and voltage 53

Current and voltage 54

* Electricity - current surge in a lamp 54

Electricity - battery power 54

Electricity - battery for the job 55

Teaching about current & voltage 56

Electricity - AC ripple 57

Electricity - discharge of a capacitor 58

Electricity - LDR and voltage: 58

* Electricity - induction in a coil 59

Cooling - the coffee quandary 60

* Cooling and size - big and small 61

Do large animals stay warmer? 61

Do babies become cold easily? 62

* Cooling and survival - a variation 62

* Cooling and size - Goldilocks 64

Heat - more ideas 65

Cooling- do hot things cool faster? 65

Heat - insulation materials 66

More insulation experiments 66

Heat - using a heat loss sensor 67

Heat - central heating 68

Heat - day and night graph story 69

Heat - keeping warm 70

Gas laws - pressure and temperature 71

Gas laws - 72

* Gas laws - heat from a pump 72

* Gas laws - pressure and volume 73

Gas laws - teachers note 74

Radiation 74

* Radiation - climate 75

* Radiation - heat absorption 76

Radiation – best colour 77

Noise and sound waves 78

Sound waves and phase - demo 78

Stopping sound 79

Sound investigations - hearing 80

* Speed of Sound 81

Thermostats - refrigerator 82

Chemistry

Teaching about acids 83

* Acids - multi-protic acids 87

* Acids - strong alkali and weak acid 87

Acids - stomach acid 88

Acids - heat of neutralisation 89

* Corrosion - salt and steel 90

Electricity - lead acid accumulator 91

Endothermic reactions 92

* Endothermic reactions 2 93

Evaporation - make a drink cool 94

Evaporation - data analysis 95

Evaporation - teaching 96

Evaporation - wet gloves 96

Evaporation - teacher notes 97

* Evaporation - do ceiling fans cool? 97

Exercise - blankets and athletes 98

Freezing and melting 99

Freezing point- teaching 100

Freezing - energetics 101

Freezing 102

Latent heat of the earth 102

Fuels - yellow and blue flames 103

Fuels - candle burning 103

Fuels - combustion of alcohol 104

Latent heat - cooling curves 105

Latent heat - heating ice 106

Order of reaction 107

Reactions - plaster of Paris 108

* Radioactive decay – half life 109

Rate of reaction - more methods 110

Rate of reaction – lighting a match 110

Rate of reaction - iodate 111

Rate of reaction - thiosulfate 112

Rate of reaction - temperature 113

Rate of reaction - temperature 114

Biology

Enzymes - lipase and emulsifier 115

Enzymes - pepsin & peroxidase 116

Enzymes - peroxidase activity 116

Enzymes - amylase activity 117

Exercise - pulse and breathing 118

Exercise - pulse 118

Lungs and heart 119

Using a spirometer 119

Exercise - skin temperature 120

Hand warming 121

Temperature regulation 122

Response to hot and cold 122

Homeostasis - perspiration 123

Fermentation - methods 124

Fermentation - grass cuttings 124

Fermentation - is cut grass dead? 125

Fermentation - more methods 126

Fermentation - general 126

Fermentation - more methods 127

Fermentation - temperature change 127

Fermentation - rise of bread dough 128

Field study notes 129

Field study - microclimate 129

Photosynthesis - field study 129

Photosynthesis - experiment notes 130

Oxygen measurement 130

Photosynthesis - 'carbon dioxide' 131

Photosynthesis - aquarium 132

Food - measuring energy 133

The greenhouse effect 134

Respiration & Growth 135

Respiration / germination - energy 135

Respiration - oxygen in exhaled air 136

Respiration - use of oxygen 136

Osmotic pressure 137

Transpiration 138

Transpiration - teachers note 139

Transpiration - pressure 139

General

Data loggers - a scientist's camera! 140

Notes 141

Credits and contact addresses 142