STEMLabs

      TeacherGeek is an online site for Makerspace/STEMLab materials, components, activities, and ideas.  I'll be doing a post just about this site in the next week or so, but they also provide an excellent guide for determining if your STEM activity is really STEM, allowing for a lot of student creation and innovation, or an activity that simply has students following a set of instructions.  The guide is available on their website under the Documents and Videos tab, but I've provided a link to the PDF here as well:   TeacherGeek STEM Check

     Vernier has a free software download named Graphical Analysis that does the curve fitting that Logger Pro does, but Logger Lite doesn’t.      The options are listed in the attached screenshot:  Proportional, Linear, Quadratic, Power, Inverse, Inverse Squared, Natural Exponent, Natural Log. Suzanne

Photos from the 3D Printing and Vernier Sensor Workshop at St. Clare Walker Middle School.  Lots of creative 3D design and printing and lots of practice with Vernier sensors. 3D Printed Carbon Atom Wind Turbine 3D Printed Mantis Sign for Spanish Class Dr. Sumner Working with Vernier Sensors Vernier Motion Sensor House Design in Tinkercad                                                              Energy Sensor Chicken or the Egg? 3D Printed Race Medals Dr. Sumner talking about Vernier Sensors

Links for the Workshop Presentations 3D Printing Vernier Sensors