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PASCO’s Advanced Environmental Science Solution

Make AP* Environmental Science inquiry easier with PASCO’s reliable data acquisition & analysis tools!

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PASCO Advanced Environmental Science

PASCO: Making AP* Environmental Science Inquiry Easier with Reliable Data Collection & Analysis Tools

PASCO’s new 21st century science learning environment enhances AP* Environmental Science. With easy-to-use and time-saving probeware, curriculum, and interfaces, PASCO has integrated inquiry-based science with research-based, state-of-the-art learning.

Called SPARKscience, this new science learning environment is:

ASimple yet powerful, so students stay focused on the science.

ACompletely integrated… one seamless environment contains content, real-time data display with interactive visualization and analysis tools, assessment and reflection, and electronic student journal.

AUniversal and runs almost anywhere... on your computers, the SPARK handheld, and available in summer 2012 for the iPad® and Android™ tablets .

AAdvantageous for both teachers and students in STEM programs.

AFully supported by PASCO, which has provided innovative solutions for science education since 1964.

PASCO’s Advanced Solution for AP* Environmental Science Includes:

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70+ PASPORT Sensors: For authentic data collection and analysis, PASCO’s PASPORT sensors, including 24 MultiMeasure sensors, give your students an affordable way to quickly and easily collect real-world data.

PASCO’s Advanced Guides: Designed by educators for educators, these standards-based Advanced Guides cover core activities in the AP* course outline.

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e SPARKvue® and SPARKvue HD Software: Collect data and analyze it with probeware and this all-in-one interactive platform. With the SPARKlink interface, SPARKvue adapts to almost any classroom technology, including your own computers. Coming in summer 2012: SPARKvue HD for iPad® and Android™!

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The SPARK Science Learning System™: This stand-alone device can be used anywhere and is perfect for collaborative learning. Includes a full-color touch-screen, two sensors, and 61 free SPARKlab investigations.

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For more information on these products and the complete SPARKscience story, go to pasco.com

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Why Use PASCO’s Solution for AP* Environmental Science?

Our probeware solution is ideal for measurements in the lab and the field. Coupled with our growing line of laboratory apparatus, including our EcoZone™ System and the Horizon Renewable Energy Kit, our measuring technology allows students to collect relevant data for both short- and long-term investigations. Integrate geographic information systems such as My World GIS and help students analyze large-scale social science data sets, as well as contribute their own data to be viewed in the spatial context.

Students learn more when they use probeware! A critical aspect of AP* Environmental Science is that students learn to collect and analyze real-world data. Doing so helps them behave like scientists, and as a result, they become connected to the data. PASCO technologies facilitate this connection, allowing your students to become part of the environment they are measuring.

With PASCO’s Advanced Environmental Science Solution:A Student learning is enhanced because they can tie together large-scale concepts with real-world data.

A Students “see” what others cannot see and no longer have to infer outcomes by observation. Now they can use data to prove it!

A When students collect their own data, they grasp difficult concepts more easily, which helps them better connect to their local environment.

Using PASCO probeware saves time and money in AP* Environmental Science.By using the same data collection system, students can focus on the concepts and the scientific method, rather than the procedure. PASCO’s labs were created with an emphasis on efficiency, so you can invest in equipment instead of consumables!

Using a digital microscope and PASCO’s SPARKvue software, students can make onscreen measurements, which makes the microscopic meaningful.

We’d love to give you more information. Email biology@pasco.com • Or go to pasco.com/AP

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PASCO Advanced Environmental Science

PASCO’s Advanced Environmental Science SolutionCompatible with the AP* Environmental Science Curriculum

Advanced and AP* Environmental Science Labs

The lab activities engage students as they make predictions, use critical thinking skills to solve sequencing challenges, and answer questions embedded throughout each activity.

Multiple-choice questions bridge the gap between “lecture and lab” and help students gain confidence for the AP* exam.

The guide includes assessment and a flash drive with teacher tips, the full teacher edition, and an editable MS Word version of student handouts.

This Teacher Guide supports use of the SPARK Science Learning System, SPARKvue, Xplorer GLX, or DataStudio.

Advanced Environmental Science Teacher GuidePS-2878B

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Earth Systems and Resources

Determining Soil Quality

Insolation and the Seasons

Investigating Specific Heat

Monitoring Microclimates

Plate Tectonics uGIS

Sunlight Intensity and Reflectivity

Urbanization and Land Use uGIS

Water Treatment

uGIS (Exploration using My World GIS software)uGIS+ (Includes student-collected data using sensors

and explorations in My World GIS software)

The Living World

Biodiversity and Invasive Species uGIS+Biodiversity and Native Species uGIS+

Cellular Respiration and the Carbon Cycle

Ecological Niche: Coral Reefs uGIS

Modeling an Ecosystem

Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration in a Terrarium

Photosynthesis and Primary Productivity

Pollution and Harmful Algal Blooms uGIS

Weather in a Terrarium

Yeast Respiration

Energy Resources and Consumption

Energy Content of Food

Global Resources and Energy Consumption uGIS Wind Power—Where Do We Build? uGIS

Includes a printed manual and flash drive. Manual contains detailed teacher version complete with guided inquiry lab activities, suggested answers, and much more. Flash drive contains teacher tips, a PDF of the full teacher edition, and an editable MS Word version of student handouts.

Also Available: Teacher Guide Flash Drive only PS-2887A $79(Contains all materials from the teacher guide and teacher tips in electronic format only)

Student Lab Activity Blackline Master PS-2898A $59(A printed version of the same student handouts that are included electronically with both the Teacher Guide and Teacher Guide Flash Drive only)

Pollution

Acid Deposition and Natural Water Bodies uGIS

Air Pollution and Acid Rain

Monitoring Water Quality

Designed by educators for educators, these standards-based Advanced Guides cover core activities in the AP* course outline and national science standards.

The topics are correlated to the national science standards and cover: earth systems and resources, the living world, population, energy resources and consumption, and pollution.

Population

Human Population Dynamics uGIS

Survivorship and Mortality Curves: Cemetery Dynamics uGIS

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SPARK Science Learning System™ PS-2008A

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Includes Fast Response Temperature Probe, Voltage Probe and more than 60 pre-installed, guided-inquiry SPARKlabs.

SPARKlink®

PS-2009

SPARKvue® Site LicensePS-2400

Includes two sensor ports, built-in Temperature and Voltage Sensors with probes, USB connec-tion, and rugged polycarbonate case.

For use with or without a computer

For use with a computer

Single sensor port for wireless connection to your Bluetooth-enabled tablet.

For use with your tablet

Advanced Environmental Science Standard Sensor BundlePS-2930

PASPORT Airlink 2PS-2010

PASCO Interface Options

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SPARKvue® HD Science Application for the iPad®

and AndroidTM Tablets

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Get the full-featured version of SPARKvue® HD for youriPad® or Android™ tablet. Includes full suite of display and analytical tools, 61 free SPARKlabs®, all in an integrated learning environment. (Coming in Summer 2012: SPARKvue® HD for the iPad® arrives at the App Store. Also coming: SPARKvue HD for Android™, for select Android™ tablets.)

1. Light Sensor PS-2106A 2. Turbidity Sensor PS-2122 3. GPS Position Sensor PS-2175 4. Weather Sensor PS-2154A 5. Oxygen Gas Sensor PS-2126A 6. Water Quality Sensor PS-2169 7. Carbon Dioxide Sensor PS-2110

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System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, Mac OS X (Universal Binary), Linux and Solaris. Minimum of 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended).

My World GIS 5.0

Classroom (10-seat) License SE-7364 35-seat License SE-7365 K-12 Campus Site License SE-7366

My World GIS is an award-winning geographic information system designed specifically for schools, featuring drag-and-drop simplicity and over 50 data libraries to get you started. Right out of the package, you can explore earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, climate, glaciers, country populations, literacy and mortality rates, and much, much more.

AHot-link graphics, videos and documents to points on a map

AImport and export industry standard file formats

AGPS import wizard – collect your data with GPS location and easily view it on a map

ASatellite images from Internet databases

AOne-disk installation including more than 50 data libraries

Pollution

Acid Deposition and Natural Water Bodies uGIS

Air Pollution and Acid Rain

Monitoring Water Quality

We’d love to give you more information. Email biology@pasco.com • Or go to pasco.com/AP

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PASCO Advanced Environmental Science

*AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

PASCO EcoZone™ SystemME-6668

Students observe the photosynthesis cycle and its effect on carbon dioxide, plus the contribution of the crickets’ higher carbon dioxide production (through respiration).

Isolate ecosystems for comparison studies. Here the impact of animals on carbon dioxide production is explored in two separate ecosystems – one with crickets, one without.

A Your measurements have minimal im-pact on the system because it remains closed!

A Custom-built to easily accommodate PASCO’s line of environmental sensors.

A Individual chambers easily decoupled for studies of single ecosystems.

Horizon Renewable Energy Kit

9 SPARKlab activities in the Horizon Renewable Energy Collection include:

3 Hydrogen Fuel Cell labs

3 Solar labs

3 Wind labs

Horizon Renewable Energy SPARKlabsTeacher License PS-2857

Includes 9 SPARKlab activities to help students develop an understanding of renewable energy.

Electronic Delivery.Upon purchase, download to your computer.

One per teacher (one license for all your classes).

kena® Digital MicroscopeSE-7236

Includes a removable camera/magnification head, touch tube (for placing the microscope flush against specimens), sturdy metal base, and convenient carry/storage bag. Magnification: 20X, 40X, 100X.

For use with SPARKvue:Requires a SPARK Science Learning System or a USB port on a computer (Mac or Windows) with SPARKvue version 1.3 or later.

SPARKvue’s new digital imaging capabili-ties support a wide variety of USB imag-ing devices, including most modern digital microscopes and webcams. Don’t have a computer? No problem—use SPARK Science Learning System and get all the advantage of digital microscopy.

Includes 3 EcoChambers, tray, rubber stoppers, syringe, plastic tubing and wicking cord.

Take AP* Environmental Science to the Next Level!

Understanding interactions within and between environmental systems is essential in environmental science studies. The carbon and nitrogen cycles, the water cycle, and the flow of energy are fundamental, yet often difficult to grasp. The EcoZone System gives students the means to create their own model environ-ments, configured from the start for continuous, real-time measurement.

With three interconnected chambers, students can model the interactions between three different ecosystems. Choose a terrestrial, aquatic, and decomposition chamber, or create unique biomes to model and measure. Decouple the system for isolated investigations. For example, how does light affect the ecosystem? Students can create two identi-cal ecosystems, then vary light conditions and collect solid quantitative data.

Create and monitor models of the environment

SE-7238 Includes wind turbine, 18 long curved blades ( 3 sets of different curvatures), 3 long flat blades, 3 short flat blades, reversible Fuel Cell module, Gas/Water storage module, small motor with propeller, 1 W Solar Cell, AA battery pack and 2 pairs of banana plug cables.

We’d love to give you more information. Email biology@pasco.com • Or go to pasco.com/AP

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Requires:Water Quality Colorimeter PS-2179 $135

Each Kit Contains 30 tests.

PASCO also simplifies measurements that require a titration method. The ezSample Field Titrators contain a vacuum-sealed quantity of a titrant. The entire process requires only a minute or two, is completely portable, and avoids all the setup and cleanup associated with ordinary titrations.

Chemical Water Quality Testing in the Field: ezSample™ Snap Vial Kits

Titration in the field:ezSample Water Quality Test Kits

Each Kit Contains 30 tests.

PASCO’s ezSample water quality test kits simplify the chemical testing of water sources. Avoid the mess and difficulty of handling chemicals directly and get great results, even in the field.

Water Quality Field GuidePS-2829A

Includes the spiral-bound Field Guide and an electronic version of editable MS Word files on a USB flash drive.

Ammonia EZ-2334 Chlorine EZ-2339

Alkalinity EZ-2340 Carbon Dioxide EZ-2341 Total Hardness EZ-2338

Water Quality ColorimeterPS-2179

Includes Sensor Extension Cable.

Water Quality with PASCOWater Quality Sensor – a “Best in Field”

A The PASPORT Water Quality Sensor provides field water quality measurement in one very compact sensor module.

A This MultiMeasure Sensor measures water temperature, pH (acidity), dissolved oxygen, and conductivity simultaneously.

A No more fumbling with multiple sensors in your field studies! Convenience in field measurement – the Water Quality

Sensor captures 4 important measurements at once: dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, and temperature.

Educator-designed, student-tested.The Water Quality Field Guide is a combination ‘how-to’ and ‘why?’ reference. It covers how to plan for and successfully measure water quality in the field, and it explains why these measurements are important and what they mean.

8 Sensor-Based Parameter MeasurementsBiological Oxygen Demand (BOD)ConductivityDissolved OxygenpH SalinityStream Flow RateTemperatureTurbidity

8 Chemical-Based Parameter MeasurementsAmmoniaChlorineDissolved Carbon DioxideIronNitratePhosphateTotal AlkalinityTotal Hardness

Covers 16 Water Quality Parameters:

Easy, accurate, and ready for your field studies

PS-2169

Iron EZ-2331 Nitrate EZ-2333A Phosphate EZ-2337

Includes: Stainless Steel Temperature Probe, pH Probe, Dissolved Oxygen Probe, and Conductivity Probe.

Place in Water Quality Colorimeter and read your results.

We’d love to give you more information. Email or call us: environmental@pasco.com • +1 786 3800, ext. 244 • Or go to pasco.com/AP

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