primary IT: electricity spreadsheet
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handling data from experiments / primary school science
by Roger · Published Apr 2019 · Last modified Sep 2024
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visitors this year: 67 How data handling in science topics can be helped by using an IT tool called a spreadsheet program. Explained, with examples (from ‘IT in primary science’ by Roger Frost).
A ‘branching database is a must-try activity for sorting items and classifying animals.
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About databases and how different types of graph are useful
visitors this year: 533 When it is icy they put salt onto the roads to melt the ice. What the salt does is to depress, or reduce, the freezing point of water. The result...
visitors this year: 171 Here are screenshots from experiments we’ve tried over the years. You may find a worksheet for the experiment by searching for the topic or by trawling here. You can download the...
visitors this year: 145 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...
visitors this year: 121 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...
visitors this year: 175 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)Â Insight is a...
visitors this year: 237 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...
handling data from experiments / schools technology
by Roger · Published Oct 2018 · Last modified Jun 2021
visitors this year: 312 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...
visitors this year: 119 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....
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