inspiring scientific exploration
Active Learning. Active Science. Active STEM education.
ScienceToolkit aims to encourage exploration through science by fostering children's innate curiosity about the world around them. Through a series of real world, hands-on, active experiments, the toolkit will inspire students, parents, and teachers to engage in scientific discovery and innovation. The toolkit ignites that latent natural interest by presenting science as a creative and interesting endeavor. Students will never lack for the next, interesting experiment as they advance in the classroom or through self-directed study.
ScienceToolkit turns your iPad into a sophisticated research lab by enabling students to connect accurate, authentic scientific instruments to their iPad. Students can perform real, hands-on experiments (not simulations) illustrating important principles of science from physics to chemistry to biology, and analyze the results. Included experiment packs organized by discipline or grade level encourage a natural learning arc but students can just as easily design experiments to investigate their own questions.
Basic sensors include:
Children have an innate curiosity about the world around them yet students often lose interest in science as they advance through school. Many classrooms follow outdated (and boring) curriculums and lack resources, time and expertise to perform actual, hands-on experiments. Students, growing bored from this dry delivery of information, become convinced that math and science are for nerds and they fall behind. The toolkit includes all the resources to make science exciting again using interesting, hands-on experiments. As students learn by doing they grow secure in their abilities and their interest in math and science is rekindled.
Measures from 10 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 degrees to 60 degrees Celsius). A safety alarm sounds automatically at 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
Measures light levels from 0-100 lux. And does some other stuff before this sentance needs to be longer.
Measures time intervals from .01 seconds to 99 hours, can be triggered or stopped by different values of the attached sensors.
Measures speed and distance of any object moving between one inch per second and 300 miles per hour, up to 10m away.
Measures rotational speeds from 10 to 9,999 revolutions per minute.
Allows simple experiments of acceleration and movement to be measured
allows students to detect moisture in planters or pots for plant health
To detect the compass directions, strength of magnets, strength of electric fields, to detect ferrous properties of metal and much more.
To detect the compass directions, strength of magnets, strength of electric fields, to detect ferrous properties of metal and much more.
Unlock the mysteries of the world around you.
