Learning Graphs and Learning Science with Sensors

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Learning Graphs and Learning Science with Sensors In Learning Corners in Grades 5 and 6 Ed van den Berg ([email protected]), Frank Schweickert, Gerda Manneveld €Sense Sensors Temperature Light intensity Sound level Actuators Buzzer LED AMSTEL Institute University of Amsterdam EuroSense activities in English: http://www.pollen-europa.nl (see “EuroSense”) sensors and senses Sources: Hardware and software: http:// www.cma.science.uva.nl D is ta n c e - T im e d ia g r a m 0 0 .5 1 1.5 2 2 .5 3 3 .5 4 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Grad e Directi on Standing still Time Speed 5 41% 75% 55% 41% 6 81% 100% 90% 77% Laying the groundwork for concepts and variables by sensory experience Sound level versus Time Interview with Iris (12): Intv: How would you use sensor and graph to determine the winner in a fast clapping contest? I: Let everybody clap in separate room, all for the same time, and see how many claps everyone has. Int: What do you count? I: How many curves there are, per second, …..look at the time, ….count all the lines, …..everybody 10s Int: Is it enough if you just count for one second? I: You count the first second how many, then how many in the 2 nd second, then the third, etc. and then you compute the average. OBJECTIVES Children learn to interpret graphs and tell stories with graphs: link what you see, hear, and feel with numbers and graphs relate more and less intense, and fast and slow change link graphs with events use a graph as a tool in a new situation RESEARCH QUESTIONS Can children communicate with distance- time graphs? Can children use graphs as a tool in a new situation? METHOD Pretest Distance sensor activity 27 children grade 5 Temperature activity 13 children grade 6 Posttest recording audio/video Post interview + graphs Results posttest: Distance – Time Diagram

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Learning Graphs and Learning Science with Sensors

In Learning Corners in Grades 5 and 6Ed van den Berg ([email protected]), Frank Schweickert, Gerda Manneveld

€SenseSensors• Temperature• Light intensity • Sound level

Actuators• Buzzer• LED

AMSTEL InstituteUniversity of Amsterdam

EuroSense activities in English:http://www.pollen-europa.nl (see “EuroSense”)

sensors

and

senses

Sources: Hardware and software:http://www.cma.science.uva.nl

D i s ta nc e - T i me di a gr a m

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0 . 5

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1. 5

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2 . 5

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T ime ( s ec on ds )

Grade Direction Standing still

Time Speed

5 41% 75% 55% 41%6 81% 100% 90% 77%

Laying the groundwork for concepts and variables by sensory experience

Sound level versus Time

Interview with Iris (12): Intv: How would you use sensor and graph to

determine the winner in a fast clapping contest? I: Let everybody clap in separate room, all for the

same time, and see how many claps everyone has.

Int: What do you count? I: How many curves there are, per second,

…..look at the time, ….count all the lines, …..everybody 10s

Int: Is it enough if you just count for one second? I: You count the first second how many, then

how many in the 2nd second, then the third, etc. and then you compute the average.

OBJECTIVES Children learn to interpret graphs and tell stories

with graphs:

link what you see, hear, and feel with numbers and graphs

relate more and less intense, and fast and slow change

link graphs with events use a graph as a tool in a new situation

RESEARCH QUESTIONS Can children communicate with distance-time

graphs? Can children use graphs as a tool in a new situation?

METHOD

PretestDistance sensor activity 27 children grade 5Temperature activity 13 children grade 6

Posttest recording audio/videoPost interview + graphs

Results posttest: Distance – Time Diagram