APP, TRICs and Datalogging

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APP, TRICs and Datalogging

• Sam Holyman
• Supported by
• Kayan Parker and Mumtaz Quayum

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Objectives

• To revisit TRICs
• To understand the role of APP in science
  assessment
• To understand the benefits and drawbacks of using
  dataloggers in classroom
• To set up and use data loggers
• To familiarise Earth Science APP.

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T.R.I.C.S
TRICs

• Self aware
• Thoughtful
• Adaptable
• Developer

• Leader
• Responsible
• Communicator
• Respectful

• Determined
• Focused
• Individual
• Organised

• Problem solver
• Imaginative
• Curious
• Challenge seeker

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What is APP (Assessing Pupils Progress)?

• A national approach to assessment that equips
  teachers to make judgments on pupils progress.
• QCA and National Strategies have developed it.
• APP helps teachers to fine-tune their
  understanding of pupils needs and tailor their
  planning and teaching accordingly.
• http//nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/no
  de/157236

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APP at Swanshurst

• APP should be achieved through day-to-day
  interactions, observations and ongoing assessment
  teachers see evidence of what pupils understand
  and can do.
• APP is most effective when it draws on a broad
  range of evidence that shows what pupils can do
  independently.
• Embedded into KS3 curriculum often as a homework
  task.

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What is a datalogger?

• A sensor
• A method of recording the data.

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Set up the data logger

• Log onto the computer.
• Take a temperature probe and put it into the USB
  drive.
• Start, programmes, Vernier Software, LoggerPro
  3.4.2.

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Setting up and using a datalogger

• Half fill a beaker with ice.
• Put the probe into the liquid.
• Start collecting the data.
• Add a spatula of salt.
• Observe for 1 minute.
• Stop collecting the data and autoscale.
• Print your graph.

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Issues arising from the use of dataloggers

• Confidence
• Equipment
• Cost
• Time

• Real time data
• No measurement skills are needed
• Links different ways of displaying data with the
  experiment
• Remote sensing
• Links with other curriculum areas e.g.
  mathematics, IT

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Investigating greenhouse gases
Air Methane Carbon dioxide

• What do you think will happen?

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Trouble shooting