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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 workplace. One way to meet this challenge is to actively involve students in learning allowing them to ...

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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 physics....

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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 that make us think and learn more effectively. Meteorology embodies elements of physics, geography, ...

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Making a Mini-Submarine: An open-ended investigation with positively buoyant results

A minature submarine is a fascinating toy that sinks and rises in a container of water. They make excellent teaching tools for illustrating the concept of density and buoyancy. In this article, students are challenged to produce minature submarines t...

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Multi-Resource Learning: How to effectively use multiple resources and cooperative groups in the classroom

Students are enthusiastic with the multi-resource learning environment in which multiple resources, such as the Internet, science posters, magazines, books, CD-ROMs, and inquiry labs are used in the learning process. They can engage in their own lear...

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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank the focus is on density slicing—an important analytical tool that allows students to do project work in a highly quantitative manner...

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In the Footsteps of Archimedes: Archimedes' fabled experiment leads to discoveries about density

In this article, an activity is created where students find the mass of a sample of copper with the stipulation that they can use anything in the lab other than a balance. Students are given paper cups of copper shot and each has a different mass. Wo...

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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, learn about open-ended inquiry and the encouragement to shift science away from the traditional "cookbook" type lab to more inquiry-b...

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Boiling Ice: A physics demonstration illustrating the kinetic molecular theory of matter

Physics is a good course to teach to young students because inquiry-based activities can be integrated into lectures to reinforce concepts and ideas. This article features a favorite activity that keeps student interest high—where ice is made by bo...

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Commentary: Enriching the Curriculum

An opinion piece about teachers covering the basic science curriculum, and doing this while meeting the needs and interests of an increasingly diverse student population....