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The calibration function walks you through the steps necessary to calibrate each sensor, in a clear, step-by-step fashion.

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Therefore, Logger Pro allows you to calibrate or align each sensor with an external standard such as a ruler, thermometer, clock, or whatever the sensor needs.

If the room is hot, sound will travel faster, and the device will consistently underestimate the distances it measures. For example, the ultrasonic motion sensor uses sound to measure distance. This means that not only does the device measure changes faithfully, it also records accurate values that would agree with another measuring device. Most electronic sensors are excellent at sensing changes in the environment, but like all measuring devices, at some point they need to be calibrated. There are ready-to-use settings files for every sensor Vernier makes – and there are a lot of them. The motion sensor activity yields real-time data, and students can get a feel for the fact that walking faster increases the slope of the line – thus learning what slope really means rather than just memorizing a definition. Many math teachers do a sort of “human graphing” activity where students must walk x feet and then walk y feet, plotting themselves on a grid in the school yard. If you’ve never used a motion sensor in a math or science class, there is no better tool for having students learn the relationship between a physical measurement and the plotting of a point on a graph.

Each one of these files represents a different function or activity.ĭistance Match, for example, displays a pre-drawn graph that your students must attempt to duplicate while walking in front of the motion detector. For example, the motion detector, an ultrasonic sonar device used to measure distance, has the following dialog when you select Open from Logger Pro’s File menu. These files are organized by sensor, and in each sensor’s folder are several experiments you can do with that sensor. I find the other set of experiment files more useful in my classroom.

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One advantage they do have is that they include detailed step-by-step procedures for students to use regarding how to connect the sensors, launch the software, click the various buttons, and so on.

These experiments build on each other, and if you don’t do the entire sequence you might find them diverging from your curriculum or methods as time goes by. Each book has roughly 30 experiments in the approximate order you might expect to do them in a standard science curriculum.

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The first batch is organized according to a series of manuals called Physics with Computers, Biology with Computers, Physical Science with Computers, and Chemistry with Computers. These experiments are organized in two different ways. Vernier has designed a series of experiments ready to use (assuming you have the proper probes and other devices, such as air tracks or chemicals needed). Once an experiment is designed, the setup files recall the setup so you do not have to reset the probe configurations in the future.

Setup files are instructions to the program telling which probe is connected to what port, using which scale and units of measurement, and so on.

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When you install Logger Pro, a series of setup files are installed.

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Vernier is a very low-end Mac friendly company, unlike their competitors in the computer sensor software arena. Logger Pro requires a Power Macintosh, but simpler versions of its software are available for 68k Macs and even for Apple II series computers. Logger Pro is a program by Vernier Software to take measurements via electronic probes connected to an analog-to-digital interface box, described in last week’s column.

Appendix: Inserting Pictures, Graphs, and Data in AppleWorks.

Copying data and graphs from Logger Pro.

I will conclude with a tutorial on how to insert and modify graphs and data from Logger Pro into AppleWorks. In this article, I am going to show how to use the software package Logger Pro to conduct computer-based lab experiments in your classroom, using either the software’s built-in experiment files or by designing your own experiment from scratch. This is the second in a series of articles I am writing in support of some staff development meetings I am conducting in the Spring of 2001 for the Antioch Unified School District in California.

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