Chapterless Science: Taking a new approach to presenting science material

by: Mark Vondracek

Dividing a scientific discipline into sections or chapters of a book is not always the most effective way of presenting class material to students. This article gets away from the formal and traditional use of textbooks and instead mixes its concepts and ideas from multiple chapters. The author encourages teachers to consider teaching a “chapterless” science course—mixing in concepts and ideas from multiple chapters at a time.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2002Stock # tst02_069_09_44Volume 069Issue 09

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