Technology
At Cawthra students have access to a variety of tools. As a department, we believe in effective use of technology and student-driven inquiry. We want to empower our students to think critically and design their own experiments using innovative tools and probeware.
As a department, we have purchased a variety of PASCO probeware to allow students to use tools for data collection, analysis, and visualization which ultimately helps them to solidify understanding of science concepts, thus increasing their scientific literacy while providing experiential knowledge of science concepts.
Our junior and senior science classes use PASCO probes to engage students in active learning. By using probeware to collect data, students have data at their fingertips and thus spend the majority of class time analyzing and evaluating collected data.
Chemistry 12U (Using PASCO-Temperature Probe to investigate evaporation rates of various organic alcohols)
Grade 9 (Using PASCO-Temperature and PASCO-Dissolved Oxygen Probe to study water quality-Stream Study)
Grade 10 (Using PASCO-Conductivity probe to discover properties of ionic and molecular compounds)
Physics 11U (Using PASCO-Smart Carts to investigation motion of an object)
Grade 9 (Stream Study) - using PASCO-Dissolved Oxygen Probe
Chemistry 11U (Using PASCO-pH Probe to discover how amount of CO2 impacts pH level of water)
Grade 10 - Climate Change Unit (Using CO2, pH, and Temperature PASCO Sensor to investigate Greenhouse Effect)
PASCO: Node Coding Gr10
SPHEROS: Coding (STEAM Club)