Data loggers allow students to collect data from their surroundings and translate it, via the computer, into graphs and charts for analysis.  Data loggers measure temperature, air quality, acidity, and more and are suitable for use in mathematics and science through 12th grade.  The Hobo Data Loggers come along with a handbook of cross curricular lesson plans suitable for the k-6 classroom.    CEF has a classroom set of Hobo Data Loggers available for check out as well as easy to use secondary classroom lessons that incorporate both the science of Global Positioning with Data Collection and Analysis.  Please contact Barb Land at barb@cef-trek.org to reserve these for your classroom.

TiViTz is a mathematics strategy board game that plays like Chinese checkers with the strategy of chess, but results in students engaging in grade level arithmetic skill building under the guise of FUN!  CEF’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Kathryn Clark supports the TiViTz game as an excellent classroom enhancement of basic and complex mathematics.  TiViTz is geared for fourth through eighth grade students.  We sponsored the First and Second Annual Great Lakes TiViTz Tournaments in partnership with the Kalamazoo Air Zoo on the main floor of the museum.  Students compete in three matches with various opponents from around Michigan.  Please check out Tivitz Tournament photos from 2008 at the Air Zoo or Tivitz Tournament II for 2009. For details on how your students can play TiViTz, contact barb@cef-trek.org.  Visit www.tivitz.com to test your own math skills or for more information.

View photos from our 2008 TiViTz adventures in the Lansing Schools