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History
StaffCAIMS is housed at the Penn State Capital College campus in Middletown. Administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories are located in the Olmsted Building in the West Wing. A newly enhanced classroom includes state-of-the-art instructional equipment and quality instructional materials. This classroom contains a mobile wireless computer lab, a teacher work station capable of reading both Mac OS and Windows media, a wall-mounted SMARTboard tied into the teacher computer workstation, a classroom set of Palm Pilots for use with science probeware, and an Elmo visual presenter.
CAIMS facilities also include a resource center, located on Alumni Drive [include link to the campus map]. This center is both a staging area for processing science materials available for school rental and a curriculum materials center that can be scheduled for browsing.
New instructional materials include
- A classroom set of probeware and curriculum relevant probes; these enable students to collect data and analyze it in real time using the Palm Pilots and/or computers
- A classroom set of TI-15 Explorer calculators and TI presenter interface, a site license to Geometers' Sketchpad, Tinker Plots and Fathom software, as well as an Ellison die cut machine and dies to create mathematical models and manipulatives.