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This Astronomy activity (Is the Moon really larger when you see it on the horizon?) on the UniSchooLabs repository was originally developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics In the MicroObservatory project. It includes an opening challenge (described below) that sets up the context for students. Opening challenge You’re sitting on a beach, watching the Moon rise. It looks big — really big. A few hours later, when it’s high in the sky, it looks a lot smaller. What’s going on? You know the Moon itself hasn’t shrunk. But is the image of the Moon on the horizon actually bigger?

Students explore falling objects (tossing a ball, and objects falling with non-negligible air resistance) by constructing computer models and by analysing digital videos of their motion. Students are introduced to a microworld where they can model free fall. This microworld enables students to build computational models of falling objects using the algebra of a simple finite step numerical integration. So, calculus is not required as a pre-requisite. Students use Logger Pro to perform a video analysis of falling objects to measure position, velocity and acceleration of the object.

Random as a mathematics concept is complex and known to be problematic for students. However, chance is the base for many games and playing games is fun. Random Garden is a micro-world that lets the learner manipulate the sample space of a peculiar random generator. According to math literature, the concept of randomness presents some key aspects that characterize its nature. Guess my Garden focuses on: the concept of independence of events generated within a given process at different moments; and the dichotomies fairness vs. unfairness, predictability vs. unpredictability, determinism vs.

Studenti della scuola secondaria (13-14 anni) studiano le api da miele, concentrandosi sulla regolazione della temperatura nell'alveare. La struttura di questa unità è basata sull'approccio Inquiry Learning e comprende strumenti interattivi. Il materiale didattico contiene dati e immagini video in diretta dalla piattaforma HOBOS (HOneyBee Online Studies). HOBOS utilizza un alveare appositamente concepito e dotato di sensori, dispositivi di misura e diverse telecamere tra cui una termografica.

This Astronomy activity (Is the Moon really larger when you see it on the horizon?) on the UniSchooLabs repository was originally developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics In the MicroObservatory project. It includes an opening challenge (described below) that sets up the context for students. Opening challenge You’re sitting on a beach, watching the Moon rise. It looks big — really big. A few hours later, when it’s high in the sky, it looks a lot smaller. What’s going on? You know the Moon itself hasn’t shrunk. But is the image of the Moon on the horizon actually bigger?