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

Coffee Cup, PocketLab Air, and a Laptop

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…
PocketLab Air being used Outside

How much Carbon Dioxide do you Produce? (MS-ESS3-4 )

It is almost instinctive when you first get the PocketLab Air to breathe directly on it just to see what happens. As seen below, of the PocketLab Air's seven…
Student working on Thermos

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…

Middle School Science

Periodic Motion with intelino and PocketLab Voyager

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…
PocketLab Voyager measuring wheel hitches a ride with intelino

intelino/Voyager: 7-9 Math/Physical Science Slope Lab

Introduction Math students are typically introduced to the concept of slope in the 7th grade, learning that slope has to do with steepness.  By the 8th grade…
pteropod dissolution

What is Ocean Acidification? (K-MS)

Climate change is at the forefront of environmental concerns and it often revolves around carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its effect on average…

High School Physics

Impulse Proportional to Speed

intelino / PocketLab: Velocity vs. Impulse to Stop

Introduction While driving at 40 mph, you see a red stop light ahead.  You press your brakes for several seconds, gradually coming to a stop.  A little later…
Lab setup for this AP physics lesson on impulse and change in momentum

intelino/PocketLab: Impulse & Change in Momentum

Introduction This lesson features Voyager and the "intelino® smart train" in a lab for AP physics students.  Designed for all ages, intelino is intuitive with…
Experiment setup

Damped Simple Harmonic Motion

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

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

The Robinson Nature Center

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-…
Cover of the Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change

The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change

 When it comes to climate change, there are many resources out there. However, most are designed for the public’s use worldwide and are often limited to one…
Smog in Edmonton on May 30, 2019

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…