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Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions
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Super-Absorbent Polymers: Minds-On Learning and Brain "Growth"
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Super-absorbent polymers (SAPs) absorb and retain water up to several hundred times their mass and increase in volume up to 600%. Unlike this prop, students’ brains do not grow/learn by passive absorption of received…
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Each Tuesday during the fall of 2002, teams of high school students from three South Carolina countries conducted a four-hour polymer institute for their peers at the local public library. In less than two months, over…
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Lavosier Measures with Polymers
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Measurement activities in middle school classrooms are usually lectures followed by an activity of measuring known samples. As an alternative, the author developed a creative, hands-on activity for teaching measurement…
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Polymers Course for Small Colleges and Universities
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This article describes the course design and teaching methodology for a polymer chemistry and applications lecture class specifically aimed at small college and university instruction. This intermediate course for…
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Polymer Family Night: The Science Behind the Fun
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Engage the entire family with a night of fun, hands-on activities that explore the science of polymers.
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Polymer Chemistry: Introduction to an Indispensable Science (e-book)
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Here’s an interesting statistic: More than half of all chemists work on some aspect of polymers. For high school teachers who want to introduce polymer science basics, properties, and uses, this book is uniquely helpful…
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