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Journal Article

Safer Science: Shock and Awe—Peroxide Safety

What two things do diethyl ether, butadiene, diethylkatene, 2-propanol, and cyclohexene have in common? These chemicals can all be found in high school storage rooms and can all form dangerous peroxides. How dangerous are they? If the cap of an ether...

Journal Article

Big Air

This article presents a projectile motion lesson for high school physics that guides students through phases of exploration, concept development, and application. Students release a marble on a toy race-car track and model its range as a function of ...

Journal Article

Encouraging Creativity in the Science Lab

Although science is a creative endeavor (NRC 1996, p. 46), many students think they are not encouraged—or even allowed—to be creative in the laboratory. When students think there is only one correct way to do a lab, their creativity is inhibited....