Creating Labs to Connect Math and Science
This Math Tech course was offered with the cooperation of Texas Instruments, Hinsdale Township High School District 86 and Aurora University. It was held July 30th - August 1st, 2002 at Hinsdale Central High School.
Susan Camasta,
Greg Hill and Marv Breig, facilitators
Resources for math/science connection activities
Look at all these great Labs/activities created and adapted by class participants
(CBR means Calculator Based Ranger, a small electronic motion detector that can run by itself or attached to a calculator. CBL means Calculator Based Lab...This is a small cradle that cables to a Texas Instrument calculator. It has electronic sensors for temperature, pressure, force, etc.)
Susan's Tootsie Roll Lab (measure the mass and volume of different sized Tootsie Rolls. Proportions, graphing, slope, data analysis, density.)
Cindy's Rollin' On an Incline (uses a CBR to detect motion of a ball, quadratics)
Cindy's That's the way the ball bounces (uses a CBR to detect motion of a ball, quadratics)
Cindy's Voltage Decay Lab (uses a CBL-2, capacitors, resistors)
Barb's giraffe data Lab (data analysis and using your calculator)
Barb's Slinky Lab (uses a CBR, harmonic motion)
Barb's Skittles Lab (radioactive decay simulation)
Dan's Making Sense (review of systems of equations)
Dan's Spiral Stairs (angles, triangles, circles)
Dan's The Roll (ratios, slope, density, using your calculator)
Dave A's Money Trouble (Develop a system of equations to solve a problem.)
Dave A's The Race to Freeze (exponential nature of cooling, uses CBL)
Dave A's Tootsie Roll (data analysis, linear relationships, calculator)
Dave B's Pi Lab (explore the meaning and value for pi, can use CBR)
Dave B's Tootsie Roll Lab (density, linear relationships. original lab with questions at the end)
Dave B's Quadratic Lab (quadratic equation terminology and graphing, uses CBR)
Evie's 2-D Vector Lab (To introduce vector arithmetic via a hands on lab)
Evie's Linear and Angular velocity Lab (linear and angular velocity)
Evie's Smartic Arcs Lab (visual representation of radian measure)
Fran's news article about anti-cancer pills (use as a hook for radioactive decay)
Fran's Tootsie Roll Lab (Fran added questions, directions and data tables)
Gary's Global Warming Investigation (plot data, analyze, regression, calculator)
Gary's Population Exploration (graphing pop. data, calculator, questions, analysis)
Gary's Tootsie Roll Lab (specific data analysis questions added, calculator)
Gary's population statistics (and web link)
Greg H's Modeling Free Fall Lab (CBR and TI-83+ and model by trial and refinement)
Greg H's Tootsie Roll Lab (adds comments on using calculator)
J. Court's Tootsie Roll Lab (adds specific directions, questions, uses calculator lists and regression)
J. Court's Pendulum Lab (collect data, graph manually and using calculator, predict values)
J. Court's scatter plots and best fit lines (graphing problems)
Laura's Boyle's Law Lab (Baywatch lab for the CBL-2 with pressor sensor)
Laura's Fahrenheit / Celcius conversion Lab (Instructions for integrated science and algebra)
Laura's Tootsie Roll Lab (specific directions for Laura's use)
Maria's Cooling Coffee Lab (graph time versus temperature as coffee cools...use Pasco temperature probe or CBL with sensor)
Maria's graph interpretation using CBR (model different movements using the CBR and interpret graphs)
Maria's Tootsie Roll Lab (worksheet with specific directions and graphing calculator use)
Mary's M& M Lab (simulate radioactive decay with M & Ms)
Mary's Radiation Lab (CBL with Geiger Counter probe to investigate radiation versus distance)
Mary's Sour Stomach Lab (CBL with pH probe, neutralize an acid with antacids)
Natalie's Designer Genes Lab (link random simulations to biology...Punnett squares, pre-calculus, calculator)
Natalie's Dino Lab (geometry, volume by displacement; density formula, Fundamental Theorem of Similarity)
Natalie's Sine Pendulum Lab (pre-calculus, simple harmonic motion, CBR and calculator)
Patrice's Tootsie Roll Lab (adapted for junior high)
R. Bishop's Skittles Lab (exponential growth curves, population)
R. Bishop's Penny Lab
(solve equations with two variables
R. Bishop's Tootsie
Roll Lab (linear
relationship between mass and volume.
line of best fit by hand and linear
regression.
Scott's Measurement Lab (precision of measurement and graphing activity that uses the elementary particle theme.)
Scott's Pendulum Lab (evaluate students’ problem solving and graphing abilities, establish concept of pattern analysis, address measurement skills.
Scott's Vector Lab (explore the relationships between vectors that add to zero)
Terry's Coffee Lab ( data collection, mathematical equations, CBL, temp probe.)
Terry's First Day Comics (comics and web link)
Terry's First Day Lab Notes (Geometry, make and test conjectures, which should assist them when doing proofs.)
Terry's M & M Lab (proportions, graphing, range of axes, slopes, comparing calculated single values (cm/number=d) to average values derived from the slope of the line of many points. Best fit lines, sampling)
Yvonne's Inclined Plane Lab (measure the acceleration due to gravity.)
Yvonne's Analysis of Motion Lab (relationships among position, velocity, and acceleration. graphing, slopes)
Yvonne's Graphing Techniques (physics)
Yvonne's Half-Life Lab (Geiger counter and radioactive samples, physics)
Yvonne's Mulch Project (calculations, unit conversions)