Tagged: data logging

primary school science / schools technology

Apr 2019

primary IT: graphs & sensors

How science topics can be helped by using an IT measuring tool called a sensor. Explained, with examples nearby (from ‘IT in primary science’ by Roger Frost).

schools technology

Nov 2018

Here are pictures of labs, data loggers, sensors and experiments from the 1990’s to the 2000’s. You’ll see different solutions to computers in a lab and for example, different colorimeters and different ways to...

science experiments

Nov 2018

a data logger is a scientist’s camera

data loggers – the scientist’s camera! There is a rich world of data waiting to be collected. Take an accelerometer with you on a theme park roller coaster or if that’s too sad, take...

handling data from experiments

Oct 2018

video and data analysis tool – Coach Studio

Update – Coach 7 was available in 2018. In 2008 I wrote: Coach 6 Studio provides a learning environment where you or students can work with models or create models of your own. It...

handling data from experiments

Oct 2018

software that works with most data-loggers: ‘Insight’

Here is some excellent software that can collect and analyse data and it now works with a huge number of different brands. Called Insight and known to thousands of science teachers, this has grown...

handling data from experiments

Oct 2018

Insight iLOG VideoLab for all kinds of data

How much of the software used on computers in the 1990s is still being used on them today? One favourite, called Datalogging Insight, lives on today (2016) Insight is a family of primary and...

handling data from experiments

Oct 2018

about the ‘sid’ file format

Q. What is SID? A. It’s a standard file format that every data logging manufacturer is encouraged to support. The results of data logging experiments can be better shared in the ‘SID’ format. This...

handling data from experiments / schools technology

Oct 2018

data logging software choices

The sensors and equipment you buy for school requires software made for it. There IS a generic program, called Insight (below). which works with lots of different manufacturer’s kit. It has the advantage of...

handling data from experiments

Oct 2018

data & datafiles you can download to analyse

Real results are often messy, but these all offer good material for discussion. This is the page from which you can download the results of other people’s experiments using sensors. Use the files as...

interviews: scientists at work

Jan 2016

scientist 18: the data logger company – agriculture (2012)

Roger Frost meets Tony Peloe from Cambridge firm, Delta-T, who supply plant and environment monitoring equipment to plant growers and researchers. Follow-up link: Delta-T www.delta-t.co.uk Tagged biology, Nicola Terry, physics, technology, data logger, data...