Martin Horejsi of NSTA Recommends recently tested the Go Direct® Acceleration sensor and called it a “rock-solid piece of science instrumentation” with an “infinite number of uses.” In the article, “Measuring Murphy’s Law with the V...
It is imperative that students are taught about lab safety at the beginning of each school year. When it comes to safety, I want to go beyond just guidance and provide something that really sticks with students.
In addition to going over the importa...
Absorbance of plant pigments from spinach and cherry
Two of our most popular spectroscopy experiments can now be done with Vernier Spectral Analysis® and are now available for free. Experiment 13, “The Visible Spectra of Plant Pigments” ...
Effective and Inexpensive HPLC Analogue for First-Year Students: Buret Chromatography of Food Dyes in Drinks
Brian Stankus, Rosemary White, and Binyomin Abrams (Boston University, Massachusetts);
J. Chem. Educ., 96, 2019, pp 739−744.
The authors...
Over the last few months, we have been testing the Vernier Python module for Go Direct® sensors on Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi is an affordable, fully functioning computer that was developed and built to help encourage the understanding, learning, an...
Vernier helps you keep experiments simple. Using our multi-channel Go Direct® Optical Dissolved Oxygen Probe, students can simultaneously measure dissolved oxygen concentration (mg/L), percent saturation (%), and water temperature. Students nor...
This fall will mark Dave Vernier’s 50th year in education. From starting his career as a physics teacher, first at an inner-city school in Cleveland and later in Oregon, to ultimately co-founding Vernier Software & Technology, science education...
Vernier won three Tech & Learning ISTE 2019 Best of Show Awards last month at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2019 Conference & Expo in Philadelphia, PA! The Coding with mBot: Life Hacks e-book, the Exploring Moti...
In the summer of 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 11 space mission from Kennedy Space Center. Four days after launch, Neil Armstrong (Mission Commander) and Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin (Lunar Module Pilot) were the first two men to walk on the moon.
As ...
As part of their commitment to STEM education and hands-on learning, Vernier sponsored this year’s National KidWind Challenge in which teams of students test the energy output of wind turbines they designed and built. This event strengthens student...