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Sticking Together: A learning cycle investigation about water

Science educators are consistently challenged to seek ways to help students make meaning of difficult and often abstract concepts. This learning cycle investigation was designed to serve this purpose on important concepts about water, and to help st...

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The Whirl and Hurl: Demonstrating centripetal force in the classroom

Principles of physics are difficult for most students to grasp. That’s why “The Whirl and Hurl” machine and activity were developed—to demonstrate centripetal force in the classroom and teach students how to calculate distance traveled, circu...

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A Sweet Balance: A module activity for balancing chemical reactions

This module uses a relevant problem of baking sugar cookies to develop a basic understanding of balancing chemical reactions. It is designed to stimulate creativity and motivate students to become scientifically literate on chemical reaction balancin...

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Science Sampler: Feel the heat

This article features a simple game that can help students understand the nature of heat transfer through conduction....

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Tech Trek: Ready to navigate—Classroom GPS applications

The potential for enriched science instruction using GPS is virtually unlimited. An inexpensive GPS unit can help students prepare for the national and global dynamics of the twenty-first century, GPS models and applications are discussed....

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The Case Study: Naming Names

Names are vital. Names do more than allow us to pigeonhole things and give us relationships. They give us a sense of ownership. Once we put a name to things we get a sense that we understand something about the essence of the thing itself. Therefore,...