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Vernier Software & Technology has launched Go Wireless Temp, a rugged, stainless-steel temperature sensor that collects data and can be used with a free iOS app.

Its durability, temperature range, and wireless capability make it well suited for a variety of classroom experiments. The new sensor allows students to explore temperature in the environment and in systems such as fish tanks, greenhouses, thermal mugs, or heating and cooling devices. The sensor is also compatible with Graphical Analysis for iPad, a paid app that allows students to save data, perform curve fits, annotate graphs, perform statistical calculations, and export data for further analysis.

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Investigating Solar Energy, Exploring Wind and Water Energy
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MORE INFO: www.knex.com The Council for Economic Education, in collaboration with H&R Block Dollars & Sense, has launched Gen i: Murktide Invasion and Gen i: Beyond the Mission, two new interactive games in the free Gen i Revolution suite. Both incorporate Facebook functionality and are available for tablets and computers. Murktide Invasion, designed for students in grades 9–12, challenges players to go head to head with the “Murktide,” a network of double agents spreading false information about finance across the country. Players must use strategic thinking to beat back the Murktide in key regions and win control of the U.S. map. Beyond the Mission is an interactive graphic novel that puts its players’ financial skills to the test through a series of six missions.

MORE INFO: www.genirevolution.org
Amplify has
unveiled a
collection of
more than

30 games designed to help students achieve core educational goals in English language arts and STEM. The games, which are being piloted in middle schools across the United States, will be available on the Amplify tablet and major mobile operating systems, including iOS. The games seek to help students better understand the relationship between effort and success, persist in the face of difficulty, and embrace—rather than fear—failure as a part of the learning process. For example, Lexica, an immersive world with characters from literature and nonfiction, helps build key reading and writing skills and reinforces language and themes from the books players have read. Reading books from the library enables players to better understand the characters and puzzles they encounter in the game world and provides a way to unlock customized capabilities.