JoinAll Resources
Journal Article
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank find out about filling a void with music—physics mood music—and find out the answer to this question, "Do your hands get wrinkly i...
Journal Article
Switch on Student Interest: Learning to derive the equation for resistors in parallel
In this lab activity, traditional parallel circuit problems were used to evaluate students' understanding of the relationship that exists among resistors in parallel. But the students now "owned" the equation that they needed to use to find the answe...
Journal Article
Commentary: What it Means to Belong
An opinion piece about why you belong to a professional organization....
Journal Article
Isopod Inquiry: Students learn experimental design by studying sowbug food preferences
For any science teacher who has ever used slugs or snails for behavioral studies, sowbugs—also known as isopods or pillbugs—are a welcome alternative. This inquiry-based activity is an investigation of sowbugs' preferred food sources. In this inv...
Journal Article
Commentary: The Changing Nature of Science
An opinion piece about the current science education reform....