SPARKvue Integrated Science Learning Environment

SPARKvue 60-day Trial

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SPARKscience in the Classroom (8:27)

Learn from teachers and students how PASCO’s SPARKscience technologies enable student-driven science investigations in their classrooms.

The icon based, easy-to-use, yet powerful software used in PASCO's SPARK Science Learning System is now available for use on classroom computers.  Its touch screen capabilities remain intact and can be utilized on any platform featuring touch screen capability. 

SPARKvue was designed to be a solution for science students of all levels -- simple enough for elementary-level learners but with the features to suit the needs of advanced physics, chemistry, biology or environmental science students.  The key is that SPARKvue has a layered interface which doesn't overburden the user with tools, but reveals powerful capabilities when needed.

And the bold, full-color interface allows you to use media-rich content to grab students' attention and keep them engaged.  You can create your own labs with any graphics or text that you wish or purchase the set of over 60 SPARKlabs we have created for every subject area.

SPARKvue - the simple, convenient, reliable and complete solution to using probeware in your classroom.

Easily change the sampling rate.  Switch seamlessly between four different display modes.

The prediction tool lets students draw what they think the graph will look like before collecting data.

Completely integrated labs with background, data collection, analysis and assessment throughout.

Features

• Designed to enable simpler, smoother, and faster interactions between your students and the science you’re teaching.
• Intuitive icon-based navigation keeps the focus on the learning, not the tool
• Provides real-time, quantitative measurement and analysis with the PASPORT line of sensors.
• Energize student reflection and discussion with built-in predictions, annotation tools, snapshot capability, and an electronic journal.
• Display data in multiple simultaneous representations, including graphs, tables, digital displays, and analog meters.
  
• Optimized for touchscreen systems – perfect for interactive whiteboards and tablet PCs.
• Easily export data in a range of formats
• Create interactive SPARKlabs for use on your computer or on the SPARK Science Learning System.
• Enables multiple modes of discovery -- from guided inquiry to open-ended exploration

Data collection & display

• Periodic sampling
• Manual sampling
• Graph
• Digits
• Meter
• Tables
• Multiple representations on one screen

Analysis Tools

• Prediction tool
• Smart tool (coordinates and deltas)
• Scale-to-fit
• Zoom
• Annotation
• Slope tool
• Statistics
• Curve fits

61 Free SPARKlabs!

The Only Integrated Science Labs

SPARKlabs are complete science activities designed for use with the SPARKvue software.  Each lab contains the background information, materials & setup instructions, and data collection all in one place as well as prompts for students to answer questions, make predictions and analyze their results throughout.

There are SPARKlabs in the areas of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science and Physics as well as SPARKlabs designed specifically for Middle and Elementary school students.

No more flipping back and forth on photocopied lab handouts or worrying that students haven't read the necessary background info before coming to class - with SPARKlabs the information is presented in a stepwise fashion, as it is needed.

Students are presented with the background information to read and then are immediately asked to demonstrate their understanding by answering questions.  And just as with data they collect or analysis questions afterward, any and all student input is captured in their electronic journal with the push of a button.  These saved screens can be printed out and turned in or easily collected by the teacher with a flashdrive.  This initial offering of 61 SPARKlabs provides a foundation for any of the major sciences, but there are plenty more in the works.