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Science Lab Technology



Our resourceful tech people just acquired a $70,000 grant for "science
laboratory technology" to be shared by our HS and Jr High science
departments here in Chartucky. A large chunk of that change will go for
laptop PC's, as we have no realistic way of accomodating desktop models.
Most of the rest we want to put into calculator-based and computer-based
interfaces, probes, detectors.

Obviously we would like to get the biggest bang for the buck. What has
worked best for you folks that already have this technology in your labs?
We are looking at TI-8x CBL stuff and at Vernier's stuff; would that be
money well-spent? Pasco? What is the equipment you just couldn't live
without?

Best wishes, and thanks in advance,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright
Physics, Physical Science, Internet Teacher
Charlotte High School, 378 State Street, Charlotte MI 48813
<physics@scnc.cps.k12.mi.us> or <science@scnc.cps.k12.mi.us>

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"He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the
most labour; makes his students work the hardest, and
bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they
make more clatter and fill more space, have only the tenth
of the value of one gold eagle."
- Emma Hart Willard, 19th century education pioneer
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