Sarah O'Malley

Corning School of Ocean Studies

Maine Maritime Academy

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Activities (3)

Introduction to circuits and Arduino coding part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity guides students through making a simple circuit and writing a simple Arduino sketch (code) to make some LEDs blink. It precedes a lab where students build a temperature sensor, and could be used prior ...

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Computers and instrumentation, opening the black box part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Friday
This activity introduces students to electrical circuits, building a temperature sensor, calibrating the sensor, altering a computer code and taking some data with the sensor. Although this sounds complicated the ...

Oceanographic Instrumentation, Measuring Temperature part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students open the "black box" of instrumentation by building a temperature sensor, modifying a computer program and collecting data to make a graph of the thermocline. Students will build simple ...