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Subject: Science
Age of students: 12-13 years
Hardware: Tablets (Surface or iPad)
Bluetooth temperature probes
Interactive Whiteboard
Software: LoggerPro
Schoology
Functionalities of Technology: Sending and Displaying
Time needed:  100 minutes
FaSMEd partner: Maynooth University

Summary:
In this lesson teachers explore student misconceptions and how these might impact a science lesson. Students carry out a pre-assessment. Teachers use this pre-assessment to plan for the following lessons to carry out an insulation activity with students using temperature probes, data logging software and Schoology. This activity adapted from materials from Discover Sensors Ireland www.discoversensors.ie . Students set up an experiment to graph a cooling curve using the logger software. The students then to record their analysis of their graphs within groups.

Resources:

Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk