Science for Everyone

Science for Everyone PocketLab Experiment

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Find lessons, activities, and programming applications suitable for everyone from 4th grade Earth Science students to college-level engineering students.

 

Featured Activities

PM Sensor Diagram

PocketLab Air: Measuring Particulate Matter

Background Information on Particulate Matter Particulate matter consists of small particles suspended in the atmosphere. Dust, pollen, sea salt, soil…
PocketLab Air PD Session

Air Quality Lesson Plans

Free Air Quality Lesson Plans Bring the science of air quality into your classroom through hands-on activities, inquiry-based lessons and real science tools.…
The Speeder Upper with Voyager Attached

The "Speeder Upper" - Translational and Rotational Motion Study

What's a "Speeder Upper"? As shown in Figure 1, a "Speeder Upper" is a pair of disks that are connected by a short rod of much smaller radius.  The NSTA…

Middle School Science

3D Printed Simple Harmonic Motion Machine

Simple Harmonic Motion Demonstration Machine

Introduction In a well-known 1938 book entitled "Demonstration Experiments in Physics", editor Richard Sutton describes a device that produces simple harmonic…
O3 Sensor Diagram

PocketLab Air: Measuring Ozone

Background Information about Ozone Ozone (O3) in our atmosphere is both good and bad. There is a helpful saying to remember is, “Ozone: good up high, bad…
PM Sensor Diagram

PocketLab Air: Measuring Particulate Matter

Background Information on Particulate Matter Particulate matter consists of small particles suspended in the atmosphere. Dust, pollen, sea salt, soil…

High School Physics

PocketLab Voyager Swing

Physics Galore with the PocketLab Swing

The PocketLab Voyager Swing The PocketLab Voyager swing, 3D printable from the accompanying .STL file, offers your physics students a way to study a plethora…
Competing Pendulums

Competing Pendulums

Competing Pendulums The two pendulums shown in Figure 1 were printed on a 3D printer.  The .STL file is included with this lesson so you can print them with…
3D Printed Simple Harmonic Motion Machine

Simple Harmonic Motion Demonstration Machine

Introduction In a well-known 1938 book entitled "Demonstration Experiments in Physics", editor Richard Sutton describes a device that produces simple harmonic…

Scratch

A Voyager/ScratchX Theremin

Theremin Music Simulation: Voyager/ScratchX

What is a Theremin? A theremin , named after its Russian inventor in the early 1900's, is an electronic musical instrument that is controlled without any…
Wireless Controller Game for Scratch

A Wireless Controller for a Scratch Game

Let's create a game in Scratch that is controlled by a wireless controller using the PocketLab accelerometer. PocketLab can connect directly and wirelessly to…
Reading External Temperature Sensors in Scratch

Programming with Sensors in Scratch

This lesson will show you programming in Scratch with external sensors. We can read sensor data directly into Scratch and use it to write programs that make…

News

turbo track 1

TurboTrack Dynamics Cart for Physics

We've turbocharged some of the most classic (boring?) physics experiments with the brand new PocketLab TurboTrack. It's a fast, fun, physics playground for…
Front covers of the four TWOSE lesson plans

Air Quality Matters!

Globally, seven million premature deaths each year result from air pollution (WHO, 2012). Recent air quality events such as the forest fires in Western North…
Cover of the State of Global Air 2019 Report

State of Global Air: A Report on Air Quality Parameters and their Health Effects

The State of Global Air report is an annually updated peer-reviewed document providing the most up to date information possible on global air quality and its…