Category Archives: Art of Technology

Multimedia Science – Free Software & Materials For Teachers & Students

The company Multimedia Science is no longer selling its science software and game making software.  However, the company is allowing anyone to use these materials free of charge. Feel free to share them with other teachers.   The Word file … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science Porting Science Applications to Android Platform

Multimedia Science has ported many of its science games, simulations, tutorials, and labs to the Android platform. You can get a list of all of these FREE science applications by providing your name and email in the spaces on the … Continue reading

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Physics Teachers and Students – FREE Android Acceleration Game Now Available

Another FREE Android physics application, the Acceleration Game, is now available.   The link below will take you to the Acceleration Game. The Acceleration Game software helps students to gain a “gut” understanding of acceleration by playing two games. The … Continue reading

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Science Teachers – Another Free Android Application – Momentum Race Game

Multimedia Science is back with another FREE Android science application. The link below will take you to the Momentum Race game. The Momentum Race Game is a quick paced software game to see how well and quickly students can calculate … Continue reading

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The Electric Arc Furnace – Smoking is Bad for Your Health

Science Teaching & Technology by Multimedia Science Industrial Experience & the Science Classroom  The Electric Arc Furnace – Smoking is Bad for Your Health After fifteen years as a chemical engineer, I made a career switch into high school science … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science Android Apps Now On Appliv Discovery Platform

A number of Multimedia Science’s chemistry and physics applications have been ported to and are now available as Android Apps.  One example is the Torque Challenge where you must understand torque to balance the beam.  And several of these apps are free, like … Continue reading

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Evaluating Software Use in Science Education

What are the benefits of using software in the science classroom? Let’s look at a sample software physics game problem. This will lead to some guidelines on how to evaluate this type of software. Today’s Students Have Different Needs Today’s … Continue reading

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SMALLab Learning & Embodied Learning

[like] Many physics teachers out there may have used a Pasco sonic ranger attached to a computer and a projector to show a graph of a student’s motion as they moved across the room.  SMALLab Leaning has taken that a huge step … Continue reading

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Boxlight LabDisc – Portable / Wireless / 14 Sensors / Mobile Cart

[like] Wow!  Taking experimental data has come a long way.  The LabDisc does not require wires or changing out probes and sends data via Bluetooth.  The sensors include: accelerometer, air pressure, ambient temperature, current, distance, external temperature, light, microphone, voltage, … Continue reading

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Chem Doodle – Chemical Publishing Software

[like] ChemDoodle began as a quality and affordable chemical sketcher, and has since become the most powerful chemical publishing tool in the industry, supporting all platforms and with extensions to web browsers and mobile devices. This software might be overkill for … Continue reading

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