TI-73 Explorer™, TI-83 Plus Family, TI-84 Plus Family, TI-Navigator™
A Wet Welcome When the Mendoza family returned from their Amazon vacation, they found their living room to be as wet as the rainforest. It turned out that a pipe above the ceiling had been leaking for the past 30 days. In this adventure, students will conduct an experiment that will determine how many gallons of water leaked from the Mendoza's pipe.
A Wet Welcome Home - Adventure 4 Students perform an experiment that simulates a leaking pipe and gather data on volume of water lost over time. They graph the data collected as a scatter plot, find the equation of the line of best fit, find the total volume of water collected, and convert units from metric to customary.
TI-73 Explorer™, TI-83 Plus Family, TI-84 Plus Family, TI-Navigator™
Beverage Tests In this activity, students will use the CBL 2 with a pH sensor to test the pH of common beverages. They will then choose a graph that will compare the drinks by their pH and use the results to identify mystery solutions.
Calculator Controlled Robots - Mission 3: Turns and Mazes The third mission is to program your robot to navigate a maze, retrieve a secret package, and return to the original starting point. As always should your robot be discovered or captured, your teacher will disavow any knowledge of your mission. Good Luck
Calculator Controlled Robots - Mission 6: Game Day! Congratulations! You've made it to Game Day! If you've sneaked ahead and skipped the previous lessons you won't have a clue how to program your robot to do these activities. Go back to Mission 1 and start over. If you've completed the previous five missions. Great Job! You're ready to start.
Calculator Controlled Robots - Mission 9: Misson to Mars Your robots has been selected for the next mission to Mars. All initial robot movements after landing have to be pre-programmed. After that, if you've successfully completed all previous missions, you're now ready to take full direct control of your robot to explore Mars.
Michael Lloyd, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR
