Product Summary
PASCO’s EcoChamber is designed to help students model and understand complex interactions within and between ecosystems. The clear, acrylic EcoChamber is specially designed to accommodate PASCO sensors, making qualitative and quantitative measurements as easy as observing a classroom aquarium or terrarium.
Students can model interactions between different ecosystems by connecting them via their side ports. Establish a traditional terrestrial, aquatic or decomposition arrangement, or create your own unique biome to model and measure. With the EcoChamber, students can easily alter conditions for controlled studies in how light, moisture, humidity, temperature, acidity, or the introduction of other species impacts the ecosystem! Student groups can selectively manipulate conditions to create their own investigations.
What's Included
- 1x Acrylic chamber
- 7x Stoppers of various sizes
- 5x Probe stoppers
- 1x 20 cc calibrated syringe
- 1x Sample tube with connector
- 1x 4.3 L water proof chamber
Product Specifications
| Approximate Volume (with lid) | 4.3L |
| Approximate Fill Volume (liquid) | 3.3L |
Experiment Library
Perform the following experiments and more with the EcoChamber.
Visit PASCO's Experiment Library to view more activities.
Advanced Placement / Biology
Students set up a variety of simple detritus-based model systems to estimate energy flow and carbon cycling within an ecosystem. Students set up their ecosystem with a known detritivore, a known decomposer, or a combination of...
Advanced Placement • College • High School / Biology
Students use EcoChamber containers and a carbon dioxide gas sensor to estimate energy flow and carbon cycling within a variety of detritus-based ecosystems.
Advanced Placement / Environmental Science
In this lab, students will design and conduct an investigation of weather using a closed system, weather sensor, and light sensor to help identify independent variables, dependent variable, and controlled variables.
Advanced Placement / Environmental Science
In this lab, students will use an oxygen sensor, carbon dioxide sensor, and a temperature sensor to monitor a closed system (terrarium). After conducting their first study, students will be tasked with designing additional investigations...
