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  • Teaching Science to Students With Special Needs in Advance Classes

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    Most advanced science classes are not team taught. Although there may be several students with special needs in honors, gifted and talented, International Baccalaureate (IB), or Advanced Placement (AP) science classes,…

  • Team Teaching Science at the High School Level

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    The focus of this chapter is the specific challenges of team teaching each individual discipline in the typical high school or secondary school. Although science curricula vary not only from state to state, but even…

  • Motion Basics

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about motion. Activities include Time to Roll, Describing Motion, Different Speeds, and Evaluation.

  • Newton’s Third Law

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Third Law. Activities include Push Back, Newton’s Third Law, Exploding Canisters and Evaluation.

  • Adding Directions-Vectors

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about adding directions and vectors. Activities include Direction Matters and Vector Application.

  • Acceleration

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about acceleration. Activities includes, Changing Motion, Accelerating, Acceleration or Not, and Evaluation. This free selection…

  • Newton’s First Law, Part I

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects at Rest and Staying at Rest.

  • Newton’s First Law, Part II

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects in Motion, Galileo Explains It All, Sheep in a Jeep, With Coinage, and…

  • Net or Unbalanced Forces

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about forces. Activities include Changes in Motion and What Causes Them and Evaluation.

  • Newton’s Second Law

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Second Law. Activities include How Are These Things Related?, Newton’s Second Bit of Advice for All of Us,…

  • Gravitational Forces

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about gravity. Activities include Gravity on a Roll, Gravity—An Equal Opportunity Force, and Falling Pieces of Metal.

  • Mass and Weight

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    This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about mass and weight. The activity in this chapter is Mass and Weight.

  • What Are Nanoscience and Nanotechnology? A Nano Primer

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    In the examples presented in this chapter, the authors have defined the nanoscale and nanoscience. They have seen surprising results for two “ordinary” phenomena that they thought they knew everything about, but which…

  • Historical and Societal Aspects of Nanoscale Science and Technology

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    The nanorevolution is here to stay. It is this small scale—where we have the ability to put molecules and atoms to new uses—that fuels the hope and hype surrounding nanotechnology. This chapter discuses the origins of…

  • Introduction to Water Pollution

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    This lesson assesses students’ prior knowledge about groundwater pollution and has students investigate types and sources of water pollution. Note that this introductory activity sets the stage for subsequent learning…

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