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Investigating Microgravity: Using inquiry, students study objects in a weightless environment
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In classroom discussions, students often have misconceptions about how objects behave in a weightless environment. This article provides instruction on how to create a weightless environment in the classroom to enable…
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Transformative Professional Development: Inquiry-Based College Science Teaching Institutes
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Two summer institutes had the overall goal of promoting learning and practice of inquiry-based college science teaching. They involved a collaborative and active learning format for participants that involved all phases…
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Inquiry and Connections in Integrated Science Content Courses for Elementary Education Majors
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An interdisciplinary team of science and education faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago and several Chicago-area community colleges developed and implemented a series of four integrated, inquiry-based…
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Embracing Learner’s Ideas About Diffusion and Osmosis: A Coupled-Inquiry Approach
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Learning about osmosis and diffusion is often a challenging task for middle school students. Here the authors present a lesson that was converted from a “cookbook” lab (McLaughlin and Thompson 2007) into a more inquiry-…
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Tried and True: Using Diet Coke and Mentos to teach scientific inquiry
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Adding mint Mentos candy to a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke produces a fountain of soda foam that can reach 3 m high. A demonstration such as this can get a “Wow” out of most audiences, usually followed by a “Do it…
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