Skills of Science - Building and Interpreting Graphs
In this lesson, students use TI-Nspire technology to understand the fundamentals of good graphing in the science classroom and laboratory.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--building-and-interpreting-graphs
Sound and Waves Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Physics: Sound and Waveshttps://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sound-and-waves-assessment
Uniform Circular Motion
Students explore uniform circular motion and solve problems that deal with kinematics and dynamics of this motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/uniform-circular-motion
Up and Down: Vertical Oscillations
Students explore vertical oscillations produced by a mass attached to an elastic spring and collect data on the force of the spring as a function of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/up-and-down-vertical-oscillations
Forensics with TI-Nspire™ - Case File: Name That Tune
In this activity, students will analyze sound waves to calculate the frequency, or pitch, of musical notes.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/forensics-with-tinspiresuptmsup--case-3-name-that-tune
Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion
Students explore the properties of waveforms representing damped and driven simple harmonic motion. First, they identify the functional form of the damping in a simple harmonic oscillator. Then, they discover the relationship between the driving frequency, the fundamental frequency, and the dampi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/damped-and-driven-harmonic-motion
Electromagnets
In this activity, students will create a solenoid-type electromagnet using two different methods of coiling the wire around the core. They will use a sensor to determine the relationship between the number of turns of wire and the magnetic field strength for each method.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/electromagnets
Punnett Square
In this activity students will explore the rules of Mendelian Genetics using a single trait, height, in pea plants. A monohybrid cross using a simple Punnett Square is performed. Students can randomize their parental generation using the reset button so they can explore all facets of dominant and...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/punnett-square
Entropy
In this activity, students will investigate entropy from the point of view of microstates, macrostates, and probability. The goal of the activity is to help students better understand the relationship between probability and entropy. Students will learn that, in the case of the second law of ther...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/entropy
Mendelian Genetics Assessment
This TI-Nspire™ question set (.tns) has assessment questions relating to Biology: Genetics.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/mendelian-genetics-assessment
NASA - Space Bugs
The goal of this laboratory is to investigate the mechanisms responsible for physiological changes of the immune system, so that appropriate countermeasures or interventions can be developed for future human space exploration missions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/nasa--space-bugs
Natural Selection (HS)
In this lesson, students will model natural selection, providing an opportunity to make predictions about evolution in a population over a short period of time.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/natural-selection-hs
Skills of Science - Doing Unit Conversions
In this lesson, students will be introduced to doing unit conversions with TI-Nspire.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--doing-unit-conversions
Skills of Science - Creating and Analyzing Linear Graphs
In this lesson, students use TI-Nspire technology to understand the fundamentals of good graphing in the science classroom and laboratory.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/skills-of-science--creating-and-analyzing-linear-graphs
Pendulum Swing – Part 1
Students use a motion detector (CBR) and pendulum (fishing float) to collect data for the motion of a pendulum. The quality of the data never ceases to amaze students and teachers. Students align practical knowledge, logic and familiarity with the various parameters to transform a basic trigono...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/pendulum-swing--part-1
Gradient of a function
This activity introduces the notion of the gradient of a curve. Initial exploration involves a dynamic tangent where students can use prior knowledge of the gradient of a straight line to determine if the slope is negative, zero or positive. The second stage of the activity goes one step further ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gradient-of-a-function
Cellular Respiration
In this activity, students will use a carbon dioxide gas sensor to measure the rate at which non-germinating and germinating peas undergo cellular respiration. Students also investigate the influence of temperature on the rate of cellular respiration.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cellular-respiration
Intermolecular Forces
In this lesson, students will first observe the changing charge cloud that surrounds a single polar molecule (HCl) and a single non-polar molecule (Cl2).https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/intermolecular-forces
Boyle's Law
In this lesson, students use the Gas Pressure Sensor in an inquiry activity to understand Boyle's Law through experimentation and data collection. Students will also visualize the particle level with help of a simulation.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/boyles-law_1
Can You Take The Pressure?
Students will use the Vernier EasyLink© and the Gas Pressure Sensor to determine the volume of a gas in a container under different pressures. They will also graph the pressure/volume data and interpret their graphs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/can-you-take-the-pressure
Cipher Solvers
In this code breaking activity, students are challenged to identify patterns, unravel clues, and triangulate a point on a treasure map.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/cipher-solvers
Optimization - IB
Students learn how to use the second derivative test to find maxima and minima in word problems and solve optimization in parametric functions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/optimization_ns_ib
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
...s in our house, Holly and Blue are the two dogs that best qualify for the descriptor “round.” Holly is a 7-year-old Chihuahua with a short temper who comes in at a staggering 17 lbs. Blue is a 5-year-old corgi with a friendly personality and a loud bark, who is beginning to develop the dreaded “b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest
Inverse Functions on the TI-84 Plus CE | Texas Instruments
... a function Function rule view Type the functions f(x) and c(x) into a TI-84 Plus CE for Y1 and Y2, respectively. Then, from a calculator screen, compute the outputs of Y1 and Y2 as shown for students to confirm the inverse relationship. Because f(x) are c(x) inverse functions, f(a)=b implies...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/investigating-inverse-functions-ti-84-plus-ce
Calculators and Order of Operations | Texas Instruments
... X, followed by 6/2X, the TI-82 would first find 2X, then divide the result into 6. However, for the TI-83 (and later models), 6/2X is found by first computing 6/2 and then multiplying this by X. The expression 6/2X is evaluated differently on these two models. On the bright sid...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/calculators-and-order-of-operations