TITLE/Headline? Is that a funky hockey puck, or just Tupperware container for your lunch?
Nope, it is a LabDisc from Globisens.
Students in Ms Keith’s Advanced Placement Environmental Science class were almost giddy as tested and probed the goldfish water as they prepared for their ecocolumn terrarium projects. “We can use more than one probe at the same time!” quipped Lia DeGroot.
These students were using the LabDisc GenSci from Globisens. Billed as an all in one STEM labs, these devices look like giant hockey pucks have an outer ring that rotates to expose a series of built in and external input connectors and sensors to measure everything from sound and light levels, to PH level, voltage, GPS and humidity. Best of all, after a bit of …show more content…
USB cables can connect PC or Mac computers where the software can connect to several students at a time.
Back in the classroom, my AP Science teacher was thrilled. Usually, my science teachers spend half their time setting up and calibrating experiments so they work properly, and the Labdisc just worked.
There are four different LabDisc Models. Enviro for environmental science, Physio for physical science, Biochem for biochemistry and Gensci for just about everything else. Discs retail for a pricey $600, but has many more built-in sensors that most products my science teachers use now. Globisens also sells a 16 disc and tablet chargeable cart for around $10,500.
While there may be other products that do similar things, my AP Environmental Science teacher is sold. If you are looking for a data disc for your STEM makerspace, or your science room, the multiple probes, bluetooth connectivity with a variety of devices, versatility of recording capabilities make this an expense worth looking into. While my teacher’s kids were experimenting, she was busy writing a grant for her own set of
Nope, it is a LabDisc from Globisens.
Students in Ms Keith’s Advanced Placement Environmental Science class were almost giddy as tested and probed the goldfish water as they prepared for their ecocolumn terrarium projects. “We can use more than one probe at the same time!” quipped Lia DeGroot.
These students were using the LabDisc GenSci from Globisens. Billed as an all in one STEM labs, these devices look like giant hockey pucks have an outer ring that rotates to expose a series of built in and external input connectors and sensors to measure everything from sound and light levels, to PH level, voltage, GPS and humidity. Best of all, after a bit of …show more content…
USB cables can connect PC or Mac computers where the software can connect to several students at a time.
Back in the classroom, my AP Science teacher was thrilled. Usually, my science teachers spend half their time setting up and calibrating experiments so they work properly, and the Labdisc just worked.
There are four different LabDisc Models. Enviro for environmental science, Physio for physical science, Biochem for biochemistry and Gensci for just about everything else. Discs retail for a pricey $600, but has many more built-in sensors that most products my science teachers use now. Globisens also sells a 16 disc and tablet chargeable cart for around $10,500.
While there may be other products that do similar things, my AP Environmental Science teacher is sold. If you are looking for a data disc for your STEM makerspace, or your science room, the multiple probes, bluetooth connectivity with a variety of devices, versatility of recording capabilities make this an expense worth looking into. While my teacher’s kids were experimenting, she was busy writing a grant for her own set of