Science for Everyone

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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

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…

Thermos Design Challenge

In these two design challenges, students will design and construct their own thermos/storage device using craft materials and measure its effectiveness to…

PocketLab Air: Measuring Carbon Dioxide

Background Information Carbon dioxide circulates naturally in Earth’s atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle (the process in which carbon dioxide is exchanged…

Middle School Science

intelino/PocketLab: Relative Velocity Lab Grades 6-9

Introduction Here is a physical science lab for junior high students that brings out the S, T, E, and M in STEM -- S for the science of relative velocity, T…

intelino smart train/PocketLab: Match-made-in-heaven

Introduction Are you looking for some great physical science activities for 4th grade through junior high school students? If so, it would be well worth…

intelino smart train/Voyager: Angular Velocity

Introduction In a previous lesson the "intelino® smart train" was introduced, and an activity on speed for 4th grade through middle school students was…

High School Physics

Damped Simple Harmonic Motion

Introduction Damping causes oscillatory systems to dissipate energy to their surroundings. Frictional losses are quite common in mechanical systems and…

The Negative Exponential Nature of Damping

Introduction Damping causes oscillatory systems to dissipate energy to their surroundings. Frictional losses are quite common in mechanical systems. For…

Resonance and Damped Harmonic Motion

Introduction Resonance can be defined in a number of ways. The most common definition is that resonance occurs at the frequency at which forced oscillations…

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

What's in Forest Fire Smoke?

As I was producing an experiment that modelled the PocketLab Air as a device to give early warnings of forest fires, there were already many burning…

PocketLab Air Getting Started Guide

On this page, you'll find step-by-step instructions for using PocketLab Air, in-depth answers to many common PocketLab Air questions, and a 15-minute webinar-…

Phyphox with Bluetooth Now Available for iOS/Android Devices

The Phyphox App You might ask "Under what circumstances would someone want to use the Phyphox app instead of the PocketLab app?" Phyphox is capable of…

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