Education Program - Partners in Learning

SCIENCE: eZedia and PASCO

eZedia & PASCO PDF Subject: Science Grades: Intermediate to Higher Ed Challenge: To develop and improve comprehension of key scientific concepts. Solution: eZediaMX, PASPORT, and DataStudio Benefits: Combining technologies from eZedia and PASCO allows students to collect, analyze and present their findings - further clarifying their understanding of what occurred during the entire experiment. Teachers are better equipped with the tools to evaluate student comprehension of key scientific concepts.

Hands-on experiments are one of the best ways to engage science students. They go beyond textbook learning by allowing students to personally explore, experiment, and understand the way things work. While science can be very exciting, it can also be confusing. Science experiments generate volumes of raw data that must be cataloged, analyzed, indexed, and tabulated. Organized data must then be interpreted and the findings shared in order for effective learning to take place.

Advancements in technology provide students with easy-to-use tools for collecting, analyzing and presenting data. By combining science probeware from PASCO with digital media software from eZedia, teachers become better equipped to develop and improve student comprehension of key scientific principles.

Students can collect lab or field data using PASPORT, an award-winning line of probes from PASCO. The data collected can then be analyzed with PASCO's DataStudio software to generate graphs and other displays. These displays are then imported into eZedia's multimedia authoring and editing tool - eZediaMX. Students can annotate the graphs by incorporating different types of media to express and present their findings - further clarifying their understanding of what occurred during the entire experiment.

eZediaMX and PASCO technologies make logical, supportive partners in creative education solutions. The combination of science probes and digital media authoring software meet a wide range of standards at both national and state levels in technology, science and mathematics. And better yet, the students have fun learning.

For more information on eZedia and PASCO visit:

www.ezedia.com

www.pasco.com