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Agenda
Day 1
- Workshop goals and personal introductions
- Tabletop experiments and introduction to iSENSE technology
- heating/cooling with ice cubes/hot water
- baking/soda vinegar temperature reaction
- Viewing multiple sessions in the same graph
- Understanding and trusting your instruments and senses
- Questioning and investigatable questions; an investigable hypothesis
Day 2
Morning
- Data Walk activity with iSENSE Data Logger
- Visualization and interpretation of Data Walk
Afternoon
- Guided inquiry experiments from our list
- setting up apparatus
- return and analyze data
- present to class
- Working in pairs to create an investigatable question and develop apparatus to study it
- e.g., sound levels in mill room
- light levels, temperature levels - temperature inside car over the day.
- water quality
- spreadsheet data
- Guided inquiry experiments including overnight experiments
Day 3
- Interpreting data taken over night
- New questions that arise from this analysis
Implementing own research project
- design apparatus
- set up data collection
- analyze data
- putting together presentation
Day 4
- presentation of research projects
- discussion of classroom implementation
