A Course Syllabus for

DataStudio with PASPORT Probeware Technology

Course Outline

Day 1

Morning Activities (8:30 – 12:15)

  • Getting Started –
    Complete a couple of hands-on, warm-up exercises in which you immediately start developing and testing your skills for taking measurements using probeware technology.
  • DataStudio Tour and Demo:  Newton’s Law of Cooling -
    Preview some of the many DataStudio tools and features that you will use to collect and analyze data.
  • Essential Skill Builders -
    Work at your own pace through hands-on exercises and multimedia tutorials to develop skills for analyzing data with DataStudio. Practice and test your skills with lab activity challenges that are inserted throughout the exercises.

Lunch – provided by PASCO (12:15 – 1:00)

Afternoon Activities (1:00 – 4:30)

  • Lab Activities -
    Apply skills you developed and explore science through PASCO lab activities. Choose from popular classroom experiments in biology, chemistry, earth/environmental science, physics, and middle school science.
  • Sensor Exploration -
    Optimize the use of popular sensors. Learn how each works and how to use it. You’ll also pick-up troubleshooting tips and ideas for application.
  • Technology Integration -
    Discuss with your colleagues how to get started in your classroom. Learn from the experiences of teachers who have used probeware, and share some ideas of your own.

Day 2

Morning Activities (8:30 – 12:15)

  • Day 1 Review Challenge

Complete a comprehensive challenge activity that gives you the opportunity to apply data collection and analysis skills learned during Day 1.

  • Demonstration: Manual Sampling with Keyboard Data Entry

Facilitators will show you how to record discrete data points (as opposed to automatically collecting data at a set sample rate) and associate that data with corresponding data that you enter.

·        Intermediate Skill Builders

Like the Skill Builders of Day 1, work through hands-on exercises at your own pace to develop skills that allow you even more control over data collection and manipulation.

Lunch – provided by PASCO (12:15 – 1:00)

Afternoon Activities (1:00 – 4:30)

  • Discretionary Hour-
    Use this one hour to revisit skill builders, complete additional lab activities, or explore additional sensors.
  • Technology Integration -
    Working individually or with colleagues in your subject area, decide on a practical classroom lab activity and then test it.
  • Activity Presentation –

Share the lab activity you tested for you students. State the objective, describe what type of  data will be collected, indicate to what extent you’ll set up an initial DataStudio file for you students, and tell how you will know whether your students correctly grasped the scientific principles taught or not.

  • Workshop Wrap-up -
    The facilitators will review the tools for post-workshop communication, so you and fellow attendees can continue to share ideas and classroom experiences. You will then complete a short evaluation in which you will have an opportunity to reflect on how confident you feel about using DataStudio and probeware, and to tell us how effective the workshop and facilitators were.