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Active Learning in the Lab: Positively influencing student attitudes toward chemistry

One of the greatest challenges in education is finding methods of making learning meaningful for students while effectively preparing them for the wor...

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The Virtual Solar System Project

In the course, Virtual Solar System, students construct models of the solar system in an inquiry framework to learn fundamental astronomical concepts....

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The Ants Have It!

This memorable activity creatively applied students’ knowledge of ants—and it all started with a wonderful Lawrence Hall GEMS guide and a teacher ...

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Commentary: To Err Is . . .

An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them....

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Commentary: On Symmetry

An opinion piece about symmetry stating that it has been increasingly recognized by physicists as fundamental to the forumlation of the laws of physic...

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Classroom Catapults

"Wow, our plastic load flew 540 centimeters! This is so cool!" An interdisciplinary unit on catapults was responsible for the excitement and enthusias...

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Research and Teaching: Raising Success Rates in Freshman Chemistry

Using data collected from student records and surveys, this article examines the likelihood of student success in a spring section of freshman chemist...

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Action-Based Research Teams: Collaborating to Improve Science Instruction

Action-based research teams, a partnership of scientists, science educators, master teachers, graduate students and undergraduates, have been establis...

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Meteorology Online: Weather forecasting using the Internet

Today, worldwide up-to-the-minute weather information is just a few mouse clicks away on the Internet. The trick is to apply this information in ways ...

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Changing the Culture of Undergraduate Science Teaching

Faculty at several Arizona institutions collaborated to change the culture of science teaching by introducing comprehensive and systemic reforms in un...