Tagged: handling data
primary IT: graphs & spreadsheets
visitors this year: 42 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).
primary IT: branching databases
A ‘branching database is a must-try activity for sorting items and classifying animals.
latent heat – salty ice
visitors this year: 380 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...
lots of graphs and results
visitors this year: 89 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...
video and data analysis tool – Coach Studio
visitors this year: 84 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...
software that works with most data-loggers: ‘Insight’
visitors this year: 65 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...
Insight iLOG VideoLab for all kinds of data
visitors this year: 94 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...
about the ‘sid’ file format
visitors this year: 112 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...
data logging software choices
visitors this year: 199 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...
data & datafiles you can download to analyse
visitors this year: 48 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....
