My students need five Chromebooks to use with our existing interfacing equipment.
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My Students
I design my classes to be as interactive as possible. A component of this is for my students to be able to perform an experiment and witness change as result of a manipulated variable. Computer interfacing produces graphs that change in real time, creating an experience that gives graphs meaning.
We are an urban charter arts academy.
Our students come to us from all parts of our city. There is diversity in our school, but this includes a significant number of students who qualify for free or reduced lunches. As a faculty we focus on quality academics and are working to increase our emphasis on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). As a charter school, we experience very tight financial realities and are constantly looking for alternative sources of equipment. In my case this has consisted of having to buy basic materials and to find technological alternatives which further limits what we are able to achieve in the classroom. Our goal is to give our students a similar experience in the science lab to that of students in our more wealthy neighboring districts. This "Smarter Together" project will help us give our students a strong enough academic background to enable them to compete with students who have more advantages.
My Project
My students need five Chromebooks to use with our existing interfacing equipment. Students will be able to use the Chromebooks in conjunction with existing interfacing probeware to explore relationships between dependent and independent variables. We currently have enough interfacing equipment to support one lab classroom at a time, but we don't have enough portable computers to move with the interfacing equipment. More computers will enable the probeware to be used to explore concepts such as graphical representation of motion, variations in pH, temperature, pressure, volume relationships, and more. Examples might include creating a graph of position and time and having the students perform the motions and see in real-time how it changes graphically or by graphing applied forces to find the coefficient of friction.
We are a school in an urban setting, focusing on increasing emphasis on STEAM.
Our students are just a few miles away from affluent schools whose rooms are filled with computers and technology. The inequities are shocking. Over the past 2 years teachers purchased enough classroom computers in science to support a 1:2 student/computer ratio in one room, and the school has funded a classroom set of interfacing devices. We hope to create more equal opportunity for our students, in more classrooms.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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