National Hispanic Heritage Month offers a great opportunity for students to learn about the many Latinx contributions to STEM.
During this month (which runs September 15 to October 15)—and all year—you can use the groundbreaking discoveries o...
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Latinx scientists have made a measurable impact in the scientific community. With September 15 marking the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, now is a great time to introduce students to notable Latinx scientists, while offering hands-on investigatio...
We have had a lot of fun with the Robotic Hand project, which we discovered in the Hacking STEM Library from Microsoft®. Using our Low-g Accelerometer, an Arduino™, and our Vernier Arduino® Interface Shield, we modified the project to create an e...
During a recent snowfall, Richard Born, a retired associate professor from Northern Illinois University, captured a slo-mo video (240 frames/s) of falling snowflakes using his iPhone® X. The camera was approximately a foot in front of a wooden f...
By Phil Kahler, Tualatin Valley Academy, Hillsboro, OR
On July 7, 2015, while participating in the Educator Academy in the Amazon Rainforest, I conducted an exciting data-collection study at the Amazon Conservatory of Tropical Studies (ACTS) in...
Kyle Forinash and Raymond Wisman (Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN) describe their use of LabPro and other interfaces in the article "Simple Internet Data Collection for Physics Laboratories" in the April 2002 issue of The American Journ...
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) have become a popular choice among energy-conscious homeowners. CFLs consume as little as one-fifth the power and last up to 13 times longer than incandescent lamps. A single CFL can save enough electricity (coal-fir...
Two of the 13 teams awarded grants by the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams program in 2005 used our products extensively. The West Salem HS, OR team developed several methods of testing the ripeness of watermelon. One method was to measure the frequencies in...
Vernier sensors have been used for exciting data-collection activities in some interesting locations over the years. We can now count Antarctica among these. From January 5 to February 7, 2001, chemistry teacher Kevin LaVigne from Hanover HS, NH, ...
Video analysis experiments have strong potential to reinforce student learning and build intuition; however, in the intro physics lab, students often find experimental values that are substantially different from the expected results (e.g., a curve-f...