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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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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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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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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 concep...

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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, ...

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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—...

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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 ...

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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 an...

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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. ...

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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...