Advanced Placement / Biology

Cell Size

Students use a conductivity sensor to measure the effect of cell size on solute diffusion rate using agarose-salt cubes.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Plasmolysis

Students use a conductivity sensor to explain the results of different concentrations of salt water on plant tissue before they design an experiment to...

Advanced Placement / Biology

Osmosis

Students use a colorimeter to determine which extracellular fluid is hypertonic to a model cell and which solution is hypotonic.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Diffusion

Students use a pH sensor to investigate the diffusion of hydrogen ions through a semipermeable membrane, comparing the rates of diffusion for two solutions...

High School / Biology

Peppered Moths Graphing Activity

How do genetic traits help or hurt organisms when environmental changes occur? See how you can use SPARKvue to help with analysis of data in a table.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Enzyme Activity (Oxygen)

Students use an oxygen gas sensor to investigate the catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Mathematical Modeling of Evolution

Students work with a mathematical model and computer simulation to explore how inheritance patterns and gene frequencies change in a population.

Advanced Placement / Biology

Enzyme Activity (Pressure)

Students use a pressure sensor to investigate the catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase.

High School / Physics

Light Emitting Diodes

Students investigate the properties of an LED with current and voltage sensors. They use their observations to describe the behavior of an LED. They create...

High School / Physics

Transistor as an Amplifier

Students investigate the properties of a transistor with current and voltage sensors. They use their observations to describe the behavior of a transistor....

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