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The Focus Microscope Camera
While microscopes may open up dazzling possibilities for teachers to provide new understandings of the physical world, many science students often view microscopes with less enthusiasm. These...
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Laser Blox
The set of Laser Blox classroom lasers that I received for review contained: Three wavelengths of Laser Blox—three green (532 nm), one red (635 nm), and one violet (405 nm). A durable plastic mount...
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The Vernier Motion Encoder System: Motion Encoding Made Personal
The Vernier Motion Encoder System marks a significant shift in the science teacher’s ability to transition between the conceptual, formula-based physics of motion to the “real world” application of...
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Echo Meter Touch
The Echo Meter Touch is a hardware module (with ultrasonic microphone) and software app that work together to let you monitor, record, and analyze bat echolocation. The module plugs into the power port...
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The Pasco Wireless Dissolved Oxygen Probe VS. Winter Water
The power of a Bluetooth-connected Dissolved Oxygen probe is not only from the DO data, but the places the data can be collected, and the ways the data is presented. Over the holidays I took the Pasco...
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LEGO® Education WeDo STEM Expansion Pack
The LEGO Education WeDo Construction Set was found to be an easy-to-use curriculum package designed for elementary school teachers. Although this kit is designed for students to build on previous Lego...
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Moticam X
Moticam X We live in an age where iPads and cell phones are part of the everyday fabric of high school life. With this being the case, Motic’s Moticam X has a great deal of promise as a scientific...
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RSpec-Explorer
The RSpec-Explorer is a small, portable spectroscopy camera that connects to a computer. It can be used for measuring spectra from light sources (including flames, screens, etc.) and for evaluating the...
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Fun and Science with the Weatherhawk myMET digital Windmeter
Checking the windspeed on the Slickrock trail in Moab, Utah. The air was moving at a steady 18 miles per hour. Just enough to make you a little nervous when bicycling along cliff edges. As you can see...
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einstein™Tablet
Designed to provide an interactive laboratory experience to science students across a wide range of ability levels, the einstein Tablet+ is a mobile device produced by Fourier Education designed to...
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Go Big with Vernier’s Go Wireless pH Sensor
The Vernier Go Wireless (Bluetooth) pH sensor Go Big with Vernier’s Go Wireless pH Sensor pH, like time and temperature, is a physical characteristic that is tossed around daily in science class but...
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Get Lost in the Magic of Learning with the Celestron Flipview Digital Microscope
One of the wonderful things about the amazing science education technology available to teachers today is that the tech can disappear–in a good way. The Celestron Flipview digital microscope is one of...
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The Vernier Go Wireless Link: A Bluetooth Broadcaster for your Sensors
Vernier’s new Go Wireless Link is a small but effective solution to expand the scope and reach of over 40 sensors. Using a Bluetooth bridge between sensor and computer or tablet, and a usable range...
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The PASCO Bluetooth Spectrometer: Even Isaac Newton would flip over the power...
The PASCO Wireless Spectrometer Simply put, constructivism is a theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas....
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WiFi Microscope
The WiFi Microscope facilitates STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) by enabling small or large groups of students to participate in wireless activities...
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The iPad Pro: Hands-on Observations
The iPad Pro is, at its core, a larger iPad. Larger screen. Larger speakers (four of them), larger keyboard, larger processor, and larger resolution. But so what? Well, I guess it depends on whether or...
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First Look: Hands on with the Pasco Wireless Temperature Sensor
The humble electronic thermometer is often the gateway technology into the world of digital data collection, and Pasco Scientific just made that tech much more affordable. And Bluetooth to boot!...
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Vernier Turns Up The Pressure with the new Pressure Sensor 400
The new Vernier Pressure Sensor 400 is one small step up in price, but one giant leap in performance. With an exceptional operational temperature range, and secure metal fittings makes the Vernier...
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3D Brings Science to Life
Middle school children are inquisitive and enjoy classroom opportunities to learn visually. Subsequently, an option worth consideration is an application of technology known as 3D. It’s similar to the...
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The Vernier LabQuest Stream: The Absolute Hub of Discovery
“Stream” Nouns are useful, but verbs are educational. So when Vernier released their LabQuest Stream sensor interface into the wild, the familiar grey box quickly proved to be much more than just a...
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