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Some students are not aware that an object weighs as much as the sum of its parts. The story in this chapter has two purposes. One is to allow student...
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Rust is one of the most common of every day phenomena, but again, is probably one of the least understood by students. The story in this chapter attem...
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Children think of floating or buoyancy in several ways. The purpose of the story in this chapter is to motivate students to solve the mystery of why o...
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Using the Book and the Stories
It is often difficult for overburdened teachers to develop lessons or activities that are compatible with the everyday life experiences of their stude...
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Using the Book in Different Ways
Although the book was originally designed for use with K–8 students by teachers or adults in informal settings, it became obvious that a book contai...
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There is currently a strong effort to combine science and literacy, because a growing body of research stresses the importance of language in learning...
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Your students will probably not be aware of the amount of water that covers the Earth’s surface. The story in this chapter will help introduce stude...
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It is not difficult to understand that students may have a misconception that the clocks we use are directly related to Sun time and that changing the...
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Students may have the idea that all mountains are volcanoes and were formed by eruptions. The story in this chapter brings up questions about the geol...
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It is not difficult to understand that students may have a misconception that the clocks we use are directly related to Sun time and that changing the...
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The title of this chapter is a compact way of saying that it covers two separate branches of chemistry. The first is electrochemistry and the second i...
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This is the second chemistry book in the Stop Faking It! series—the first one is Chemistry Basics. This book introduces new concepts and expands on...
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This chapter is about states of matter and a section of chemistry called thermodynamics which is the inspiration (or lack thereof) for the chapter tit...
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To begin this chapter, you need to picture electrons in atoms as residing in orbitals—those fuzzy things that can be spherical, dumbbell-shaped, or ...
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The basics of chemical reactions were covered in the first chemistry book, including how to write and balance chemical equations that represent those ...