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Get ideas for using PASCO® probeware in your high school physics classroom with the Xplorer GLX™ interactive science software and data analysis probes.

PASCO probeware and the Xplorer GLX provide a hands-on way to digitally collect and analyze data in the science classroom. The Xplorer GLX brings scientific problem solving to real-world experiments with an array of sensors and probes designed to measure science as it happens.

Learn data collection and sampling techniques through interactive demonstrations with the Xplorer GLX and sensors. Then dive in to the data to investigate physics phenomena using DataStudio data analysis software in a series of skill-building activities and lab challenges.

Details

  • Dates: July 17, 2008
  • Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
  • Grade Levels: 9-12

What You Take Home

  • Strategies for using the PASCO Xplorer GLX to enhance classroom learning in physics
  • Experience collecting and analyzing data with the Xplorer GLX and PASCO probeware
  • 0.6 continuing education units (CEUs) from Texas Tech University
  • 6 hours Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit

About the Instructors

Jeff Barrows

Jeff Barrows is a high school science teacher for Highland Park Independent School District. When he's not teaching Physics I and II to students, Jeff trains teachers across the state for PASCO.

Jeff holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Central Missouri State University and a graduate degree in natural sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. In 2005, he was recognized as the Outstanding Teacher of the Gifted for the North Texas region by the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented.

This is Jeff's first year to train teachers with the T-STEM Center.

Gary Nicholson

Gary Nicholson is the PASCO technical sales representative for Texas, where he travels the state supporting teachers and presenting training workshops that highlight innovative ways to use PASCO products like the Xplorer GLX in the K-12 classroom.

A former mathematics teacher with 16 years of industry experience as an engineer, Gary holds an MBA from Amberton University in addition to a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University.

This is Gary's first year to train teachers with the T-STEM Center.

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