Finding the % salt in seawater
In this experiment, students are asked to collect data in order to prepare a calibration curve showing the relationship between the % of salt and the mass of salt water. Using this graph, students will be able to determine the concentration of salt in a sample of ocean water. The activity provid...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/finding-the--salt-in-seawater
Vernier - Mix it Up: Combining Liquids of Different Temps
Students use the EasyTemp Probe to measure the temperature of hot and cold water before and after mixing. Students compare the mixing temperatures to a linear prediction. EasyData™ is needed for this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--mix-it-up-combining-liquids-of-different-temps
Seed Growth
To observe germination and understand plant seeding development. To use the graphics calculator to find the line of regression.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/seed-growth
Vernier - Nitrate
Student uses the Nitrate Ion-Selective Probe to measure the Nitrate ions concentration in water samples. In another method, student converts nitrate ions to nitrite and use the Vernier Colorimeter to measure nitrite and calculate the nitrate levels.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--nitrate
Gas Laws introduction (Boyle's and Charle's Law)
The activity contains a simulation of Boyles law and Charles law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/gas-laws-introduction-boyles-and-charles-law
Sheep Selection Program
Students perform one-variable statistical analysis on birth weight data of a flock of sheep. Primary emphasis in a sheep selection program should be based on the number of lambs born and weaned per ewe exposed (permitted to mate with a ram during a specific time frame determined by the shepherd, ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/sheep-selection-program
Half-Life Lab
This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students will use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life. Using a radiation monitor linked to a CBL2, students run...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/halflife-lab
Vernier - Dissolved Oxygen
Students use the Dissolved Oxygen Probe to measure the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water from streams and rivers. They correlate the availability of dissolved oxygen to temperature, pressure, and salinity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--dissolved-oxygen
Vernier - Boiling Temperature of Water
In this activity, students will use an EasyTemp probe to measure the temperature of hot water and determine its boiling temperature. EasyData™ is needed for this activity.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--boiling-temperature-of-water
Vernier - Determine Concentration of a Solution: Beer's Law
Students will use a Vernier Colorimeter to determine the relationship between concentration and absorbance of nickel sulfate solution (Beer's law). They will then determine the concentration of a unknown sample using the standard curve.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--determine-concentration-of-a-solution-beers-law
Common Polyatomic Ions
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice naming formulas for ions.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/common-polyatomic-ions
Diprotic Acid Lab and Easy Data
Maleic Acid gives an excellent diprotic acid titration curve showing both inflection points clearly for calculation of molecular weight.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/diprotic-acid-lab-and-easy-data
Chemical Elements Test
Students use StudyCards(tm) to practice naming elements.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/chemical-elements-test
Atomic Structure
This StudyCards(tm) stack enables students to review the terms associated with learning and using the Periodic Table of the Elements.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/atomic-structure
Vernier - Where IS North?
In this activity, students will use a Magnetic Field Sensor to measure the magnetic field of the Earth and to determine magnetic north. They will also calculate the magnetic inclination and declination at their location.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--where-is-north
Vernier - Comparing Sunscreens
In this activity, students use the UVB Sensor to measure the amount of UVB light that passes through a thin film of sunscreen. They analyze the relationship between the SPF values and the intensity of UVB light transmitted by the sunscreen.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--comparing-sunscreens
Genetics Lab
This activity will allow students to compare the theoretical and empirical results from a genetics lab.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/genetics-lab
Down on the Farm(s)
Students graph data for human population growth versus the number of farms to investigate the relationship between urban expansion and disappearance of green space.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/down-on-the-farms
Bird-Hipped Dinosaurs Time Line
A time line showing Bird-Hipped (Ornithischia) dinosaurs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/birdhipped-dinosaurs-time-line
Kepler's Harmonic Planetary Law
Students graph planetary data that illustrates relationship between distance and period.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/keplers-harmonic-planetary-law
Vernier - Water Quality - TDS (Total Dissolved Solids)
In this activity, students will use the Vernier Conductivity Probe to measure the Total Dissolved Solids in samples of water.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--water-quality--tds-total-dissolved-solids
Groucho's Sign Shop
Students' use force sensors to investigate forces and learn about force as a vector. Similar concept to the common "spring scale" force vector lab, but with a real-world twist.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/grouchos-sign-shop
Motion Pretest
Students will assess their prior knowledge about motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/motion-pretest
Curve Ball
In this activity, students' will create a Height-Time plot for a bouncing ball and use a quadratic equation to describe the ball's motion.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/curve-ball
Discovering Ohm's Law
In this activity students use Vernier Voltage and Current Probes to investigate Ohm's Law. The students collect data and use their graphing calculators to perform data analysis and "discover" Ohm's Law.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-ohms-law