3. Lesson 3 - Detecting Change

Umit Aslan, Umit Aslan, Royi Lachmy, Umit Aslan
Chemistry
120 min
Introductory High School Chemistry
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Overview

In this activity, teacher demonstrates how virtual detectors can be added to the students' models. Students plan what type of sensors to deploy in their model and deploy these sensors in the sandbox model they created in the previous activity. As they test their model, they should revise their sensor designs and/or model conditions to either 1) better align with the behavior of the odor diffusion phenomena experienced as a class or 2) to provide stronger evidence for the causes of state changes and fluctuations in the detector reading in their model. Students rewrite their previous scientific explanation to include the new evidence from their virtual detector measurements. Students will eventually present their findings to the class.

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Standards

Computational Thinking in STEM
  •   Computational Problem Solving Practices
    • Developing Modular Computational Solutions
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