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Projecting the Scientific Method: Introducing students to the scientific method and the gas laws

Teaching and training students to use the scientific method as a series of steps and as a way of understanding chemical and physical changes is best done in context. This article features an activity using gas laws as an excellent vehicle for introdu...

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Learning from Landfills: Students learn an environmental lesson as they investigate conditions necessary for decomposition of garbage

As part of a unit on energy conservation, students suggested creating a landfill in the classroom. For the experiment students constructed nine clear plastic shoebox landfills. Students were provided visual evidence that certain inorganic items will ...

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Editor's Corner: Experiencing Emotional Science . . .

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Idea Bank

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...

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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...