Developing the skills of scientific inquiry with webcams and Vernier’s LoggerPro3 software. Michael Komljenovic Abbey Park High School Halton District.

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Developing the skills of scientific inquiry with webcams and Vernier’s LoggerPro3 software. Michael Komljenovic Abbey Park High School Halton District School Board STAO 2005 My Website- My Blog-

Agenda Closing the digital disconnect with the millennial students. Webcams as a scientific instrument: developing inquiry skills Assessing & evaluating scientific inquiries. Moving from cookbook labs to independent inquiries. Lessons learned from practice Time to play!

Millennial Students (born 1980 – 2000) Closing the gap between internet-savvy students and their schools. Millennials are the first generation that have grown up surrounded by digital media.

Webcams as a Scientific Instrument: Developing Inquiry Skills Empowering students through technology and a constructivist approach. students use new technological modeling tools & software students carry out activities that are much more like real science encourages learner inquiry, students can learn the nature of science as a model of reality acknowledges the critical role of experience in learning; learning as a process nurtures learners natural curiosity bases itself on the principles of the cognitive theory, “brains-on” approach supports cooperative learning involves learners in real world situations

COOKBOOK LABS INDEPENDENT INQUIRIES/ GUIDED DISCOVERY LABS Beginning of unit/ course End of unit/ course

References “A Modeling Method for High School Physics Instruction”, Malcolm Wells, David Hestenes, & Gregg Swackhammer. “” Am. J. Phys., 63(7) (1995): Millennials at Work Vernier Software What can a physics teacher do with a computer? Joe Redish on-line book - The Physics Suite