In this hands-on workshop on video analysis and computer modelling participants can make a jump start to learn how to make their own video clips with a web cam or digital camera and to measure on these movies using the Coach learning and working environment. Soon they can analyse all the quantitative characteristics: distance, velocity, acceleration, etc. Studying examples like human motion, the motion of a yoyo, bouncing balls, the vertical fall of a shuttlecock, mathematical shapes of real world objects, and so on, are within everyone’s reach at this workshop.

Understanding and interpreting collected data can be enhanced by building computer models, simulating and animating the modelled phenomenon, and by comparing experimental data and results of computer models. Coach 6 contains a versatile and readily understandable, system dynamics based modelling tool to do just this. Drawing graphs with state variables, and their in- and outflows, plus relation arrows to indicate interdependencies proves powerful in mindmapping interesting reality situations that otherwise would not be accessible to young learners. The previously mentioned examples of data collection will be enhanced by computer modelling. In the hands-on workshop, participants can get acquainted in a short introduction with examples and ideas of modelling, also taken from recent computer exams on modelling in physics and biology education in the Netherlands and from new mathematics textbooks.