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Featured Activities

Sensors for Forest Fires

Forest fires are a common natural disaster within western North America and pose a serious risk to many communities both nearby due to direct danger of the…

PocketLab University - Principles of Temperature Sensors

PocketLab University PocketLab University is an initiative to develop college-level labs that students can conduct at home, in their dorm room, or in any…

What is Cellular Respiration? (MS-LS2-3, MS-LS1-7)

As you’re reading this, your body is doing a great many things; all controlled by your autonomic nervous systems. One of these processes is you are…

Middle School Science

Intelino / Voyager: Angular Velocity vs. Speed in Circular Motion

Introduction Have you ever felt like you are going in circles? In this lesson you will have PocketLab Voyager going in circles while riding an intelino smart…

Intelino / Voyager Lab: "Floor-it" Acceleration/Max Speed

Introduction The purpose of this lesson is to challenge your students to design an experiment for which data from PocketLab Voyager is used to determine the "…

intelino/Voyager: Periodic Motion Lab

Introduction Periodic motion is motion that repeats itself in regular intervals. If the motion has characteristics that are sinusoidal, then the motion is…

High School Physics

Moment of Inertia of a 3D Filament Reel About Its CM

Introduction Your school can put all of those empty 3D filament reels to good use in the physics classroom. There's a good chance that you and your students…

Unrolling Spool Problem Quantitative Experiment

Introduction Think twice before discarding your school's empty 3D filament reels. There's a good chance that you and your students could come up with some…

Periodic Motion of an Empty 3D Filament Reel

Introduction Don't discard your school's empty 3D filament reels. There's a good chance that you and your students could come up with some interesting…

Scratch

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…

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…

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

Intelino Smart Train Now Available in the US; PocketLab Voyager Hitches a Ride in a Dozen STEM Lessons

All Aboard intelino! That's right--you can now put the Voyager/Intelino lessons developed to good use in the classroom! The "intelino® smart train" ($99.95)…

Saint Andrew’s is the First School in Florida to have Cutting-Edge Air Quality Measuring Device the PocketLab Air

Grade 5 students at Saint Andrew’s School caught wind of startling air pollution statistics during their studies which inspired them to take action and make a…

Robinson Nature Center Investigating their Air

The Robinson Nature Center is an 18-acre, publicly-owned nature center that hosts 420 groups every year in Maryland in their 23,000 ft2 platinum LEED-…

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