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Journal Article
An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them....
Journal Article
An opinion piece about symmetry stating that it has been increasingly recognized by physicists as fundamental to the forumlation of the laws of physics....
Journal Article
"Wow, our plastic load flew 540 centimeters! This is so cool!" An interdisciplinary unit on catapults was responsible for the excitement and enthusiasm generated in the author’s classroom. In their social studies class, students learned about the M...
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Research and Teaching: Raising Success Rates in Freshman Chemistry
Using data collected from student records and surveys, this article examines the likelihood of student success in a spring section of freshman chemistry populated by many students deemed at risk of failure. The study also considers the relationship b...
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Action-Based Research Teams: Collaborating to Improve Science Instruction
Action-based research teams, a partnership of scientists, science educators, master teachers, graduate students and undergraduates, have been established at Purdue University to improve undergraduate instruction in the sciences. Action-based research...
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Meteorology Online: Weather forecasting using the Internet
Today, worldwide up-to-the-minute weather information is just a few mouse clicks away on the Internet. The trick is to apply this information in ways that make us think and learn more effectively. Meteorology embodies elements of physics, geography, ...
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Changing the Culture of Undergraduate Science Teaching
Faculty at several Arizona institutions collaborated to change the culture of science teaching by introducing comprehensive and systemic reforms in undergraduate science and math courses. Preliminary measurements of the effectiveness of the reformed ...
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Making a Mini-Submarine: An open-ended investigation with positively buoyant results
A minature submarine is a fascinating toy that sinks and rises in a container of water. They make excellent teaching tools for illustrating the concept of density and buoyancy. In this article, students are challenged to produce minature submarines t...
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Students are enthusiastic with the multi-resource learning environment in which multiple resources, such as the Internet, science posters, magazines, books, CD-ROMs, and inquiry labs are used in the learning process. They can engage in their own lear...
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Hands-On Science, 680 Hands at a Time
This article explains how students can do hands-on science in a large lecture theater with seats bolted to the floor. It specifically describes the logistics of doing a collapsing can activity in such a large class to demonstrate the birth of a black...
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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank the focus is on density slicing—an important analytical tool that allows students to do project work in a highly quantitative manner...
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Teaching Teachers: Standardizing the Language of Inquiry
Using the precise language of science can help teachers develop students' science-process skills. Inquiry goes far beyond simply asking questions. Inquiry combines the use of science processes with knowledge of science content....
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In the Footsteps of Archimedes: Archimedes' fabled experiment leads to discoveries about density
In this article, an activity is created where students find the mass of a sample of copper with the stipulation that they can use anything in the lab other than a balance. Students are given paper cups of copper shot and each has a different mass. Wo...
eBook
Charging Ahead: An Introduction to Electromagnetism (e-Book)
Charging Ahead: An Introduction to Electromagnetism is a set of hands-on activities designed to help teachers introduce middle and high school students to electromagnetism, one of the most fascinating and life changing phenomenon humankind has witnes...
eBook
Community Connections For Science Education: History and Theory You Can Use, Volume II (e-Book)
Community Connections For Science Education: History and Theory You Can Use, Volume II takes a look at various informal science education (ISE) settings—some found in most communities, some unique to one location. An informal science experience has...