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Measure, manipulate and reflect

Contributed by Claudia Urrea, November 14, 2010
Children can study different phenomenon by designing their own instruments, putting together an experiment and collecting data.
  • Original Author: Claudia Urrea
  • Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School
  • Content Types: Activity, Handout, Lesson Plan
  • Curricular Areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Technology
  • Keywords: scratchboard, picoboard, Collaboration, sensors, sensing

The goals of the activity are:

  • Teach the children about sensors and its applicability in their everyday life
  • Familiarize the children with scientific investigations when they formulate, experiment and think about their topics of interest
  • Teach the children to use computational tools to help them in their scientific investigations
  • Motivate children to build their own tools for the manipulation and representation of the data
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application/pdf iconScratchBoard-Measure-Manip-Reflect-Urrea.pdf
Comments
Anders Berggren
Member
November 16, 2010

Thanks Claudia

This is something I really want to try out.

Thanks for sharing...

Karen Brennan
Member
November 15, 2010

Thank you so much for sharing these!