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Gapminder is great for filtering and analyzing data. For instance, students can manipulate country data including population, gdp, and life expectancy. They can then add variables or filter out factors. An historical analysis can also be analyzed by reviewing changes in these data sets over the last hundred years or more.

Always trying to work smarter, I make Google Forms do the data analysis for me. By creating an adaptive form, I am able to quickly, efficiently, and impressively record student data. The results are easily translatable into flexible grouping options, formative instruction materials, and of course, good old fashioned tests. Combine Forms with the output google spreadsheet, with conditional formatting, and Flubaroo, and you're working smarter than you've ever done before!

_Description:_ Tracker allows you to extract motion data from a video, so by simply taking a video of a classroom demonstration, students can clearly visualize concepts like acceleration, parabolic motion, periodic/pendulum motion, and momentum conversation in collisions. Tacker makes it much easier to communicate counter-intuitive concepts by enabling students to slow down and quantify the motion of objects in videos. _Examples of uses:_ * Demonstrating constant acceleration due to gravity * Confirming conservation of momentum in elastic collisions * Showing that projectile motion is parabolic