Datalogging

This page contains a wide range of resources relating to using datalogging to enhance your teaching of GCSE Physics. There are materials to help the novice get started and also resources that will help established users extend their practice.

You will find

  • Useful background information on the use of ICT in science and on the selection of appropriate equipment and systems.
  • Worksheets and instruction sheets for using datalogging in several practical contexts, including investigating:
    • sound waves
    • electromagnetic induction
    • motion.
  • Links to resources matched to GCSE Physics specifications, including materials from the Institute of Physics. Some of these sites (such as Practical Physics, produced by the Institute of Physics) are very comprehensive and support a wide range of topics and activities. Others are more specific – for example, there is a link to an Ofsted report about the importance of ICT and an article on innovative use of datalogging from Loughborough University.

If you cannot find what you want in the listed resources, enter keywords from your specification in the Search box on the right. Reduce the number of ‘hits’ by using inverted commas to search for phrases.

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  • Image of a Triple Science recommended resource.Data Harvest teaching materialshtmAQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC The Data Harvest Group Secondary Science teaching materials webpage

Useful links/resources

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AQA (8) | Edexcel (8) | OCR 21st Century Science (5) | OCR Gateway (8) | WJEC (8) | Activity Resources (8) | Instructional (3) | Learning Resource (14) | Publications / Correspondence (2) |

AQA (Showing 3 of 8 available)

  • Data Harvest teaching materials
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC The Data Harvest Group Secondary Science teaching materials webpage

  • Datalogging magnetic induction
    htm  Web link 
    AQA P13.8 OCR Gateway P6d WJEC P3.1 How to use datalogging to record the e.m.f. induced across the terminals of a coil when a magnet is dropped though it. From IOP Practical Physics.

  • Dataloggerama: Equipment
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC General tips on datalogging by a chemist, Roger Frost

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Edexcel (Showing 3 of 8 available)

  • Data Harvest teaching materials
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC The Data Harvest Group Secondary Science teaching materials webpage

  • Datalogging (BECTA)  (112 KB)
    Downloadable file  Downloadable file 
    Datalogging is the capture and storage of variables as they change over time, and experiment as the context in which the datalogging takes place.

  • Dataloggerama: Equipment
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC General tips on datalogging by a chemist, Roger Frost

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OCR 21st Century Science (Showing 3 of 5 available)

  • Datalogging (BECTA)  (112 KB)
    Downloadable file  Downloadable file 
    Datalogging is the capture and storage of variables as they change over time, and experiment as the context in which the datalogging takes place.

  • Data Harvest teaching materials
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC The Data Harvest Group Secondary Science teaching materials webpage

  • Dataloggerama: Equipment
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC General tips on datalogging by a chemist, Roger Frost

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OCR Gateway (Showing 1 of 8 available)

  • Datalogging magnetic induction
    htm  Web link 
    AQA P13.8 OCR Gateway P6d WJEC P3.1 How to use datalogging to record the e.m.f. induced across the terminals of a coil when a magnet is dropped though it. From IOP Practical Physics.

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WJEC (Showing 1 of 8 available)

  • Datalogging magnetic induction
    htm  Web link 
    AQA P13.8 OCR Gateway P6d WJEC P3.1 How to use datalogging to record the e.m.f. induced across the terminals of a coil when a magnet is dropped though it. From IOP Practical Physics.

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Activity Resources (Showing 1 of 8 available)

  • Datalogging magnetic induction
    htm  Web link 
    AQA P13.8 OCR Gateway P6d WJEC P3.1 How to use datalogging to record the e.m.f. induced across the terminals of a coil when a magnet is dropped though it. From IOP Practical Physics.

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Instructional (Showing 1 of 3 available)

  • Dataloggerama: Equipment
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC General tips on datalogging by a chemist, Roger Frost

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Learning Resource (Showing 4 of 14 available)

  • Datalogging (BECTA)  (112 KB)
    Downloadable file  Downloadable file 
    Datalogging is the capture and storage of variables as they change over time, and experiment as the context in which the datalogging takes place.

  • Data Harvest teaching materials
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC The Data Harvest Group Secondary Science teaching materials webpage

  • Dataloggerama: Equipment
    htm  Web link 
    AQA; Edexcel; OCR Gateway; OCR Twenty First Century Science; WJEC General tips on datalogging by a chemist, Roger Frost

  • Datalogging magnetic induction
    htm  Web link 
    AQA P13.8 OCR Gateway P6d WJEC P3.1 How to use datalogging to record the e.m.f. induced across the terminals of a coil when a magnet is dropped though it. From IOP Practical Physics.

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Publications / Correspondence (Showing 1 of 2 available)

  • Datalogging (BECTA)  (112 KB)
    Downloadable file  Downloadable file 
    Datalogging is the capture and storage of variables as they change over time, and experiment as the context in which the datalogging takes place.

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