Data logging in Practice is a practical guide to using sensors to teach science to pupils aged 11-18
* New cover style for 2001
Our latest manual aims to help a science department to use IT more effectively. Whereas 'Data logging and Control' looks at the scope for using sensors in teaching, Data logging in Practice focuses on ways to implement them. It offers a selection of experiment activity sheets for physics, chemistry and biology, taking you through the experiment and showing how to use the graphs. In keeping with its practical approach, many of the examples use common sensors such as light gates and temperature sensors.
More than a book of experiments, worksheets that you could use as a basis for class work, it offers activity sheets for staff meetings. With these you can discuss teaching strategies, hardware, staff support and ultimately plan your approach to IT.
Inside Data logging in Practice:
- Ideas for demonstrations, small group work and projects.
- Photocopiable data handling’ activities, like the examples on this web site, that work through data files and extract the science. These are easy on your IT resources, but makes no compromises on the science. You can find many data files on this site which match with the activities in the book.
For the Internet links to data files used in the book, see Activities in Data logging in Practice
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Worksheets to discuss ways to implement using sensors. Organising resources, choosing sensors, data loggers, computers versus laptops, using a TV as a display monitor and ways of handling a graph.
- An information bank of tips, classroom scenarios and advice on what is good, what works, as well as ways to support and encourage others.
- Written by Roger Frost, who for the last ten years has specialised in running training days for science departments. With realistic suggestions for today, the ideas within are destined to become part of the culture of science teaching.
What they said about it
"...an authoritative work that really moves us from having equipment we have bought onto using it to enhance science teaching."
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Details
Data logging in Practice 142 pp photocopiable manual. ISBN 0 9520257 4 4. Available from the Association for Science Education online bookshop and other Suppliers. Or print the book order leaflet to give to your bookshop.