Now, students are unencumbered by technology freeing them to get better data and think more deeply about it. This required them to collect less data and to focus on the low-level thinking, menial work rather than consider the deeper questions such as the meaning of the data, its purpose, and the reliability of the data. In the past, students devoted much time to recording the data and entering it into a spreadsheet. In future years, this hardware will be used in 2 additional AP Chemistry labs and an AP Biology lab as well. The department found the spectrometers to be beyond the budget available to them so they reached out to MTEF for funding by applying for a grant. Schulz shared that STEM courses have unique uses for iPads that the science department was eager to incorporate into their classes, however, funding for new probeware that was iPad-compatible was limited. With this tool, students could export the data they collected to a computer spreadsheet software, analyze the data with graphs, and determine the rate law of the fading of crystal violet indicator in a basic solution.
This grant provided the funds for the department to purchase digital, bluetooth-capable spectrometers that students were able to use on their iPads. In the fall of 2017, he applied for a grant through MTEF entitled Advanced Spectroscopy Techniques on Student iPads. Steve Schulz is a science teacher at the Manheim Township High School.
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