UtSTA 2024: Out-Of-This-World Science Teaching

What we've learned so far from trying to move from online, simulation-created data collection to more physical, hands-on data collection by utilizing smart carts in some of our labs involving motion, forces, momentum, energy etc. Our physics team has been implementing these smart-cart labs for all of our physics classes. We'll talk about what we've learned so far - the good, the bad, and the never-do-this-agains. We have Pasco carts, so we've been learning the Pasco interface (SPARKvue) now a free web-based app. We'll bring some carts, you bring a bluetooth-capable device, and we'll try some stuff. Pasco.com claims that SPARKvue now works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Chrome as a web app on laptops, phones, and tablets. We haven't tried everything yet, but we can in the session.
SEEd Strands PHYS 1, PHYS 2