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What Can Students Learn About Lab Safety From Mr. Bean?
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Chemical laboratory safety education is often synonymous with boring, dry, drawn-out lectures. In an effort to challenge this norm and stimulate vivid learning opportunities about laboratory safety, college chemistry…
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Can Graduate Teaching Assistants Teach Inquiry-Based Geology Labs Effectively?
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This study examines the implementation of teaching strategies by graduate teaching assistants in inquiry-based introductory geology labs at a large research university.
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Editor’s Roundtable: National Lab Day—Community-based science at its best!
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National Lab Day (NLD) was launched by President Obama on November 23, 2009, and is a collaboration of more than 200 education, science, and engineering organizations, including NSTA. Teachers can use the NLD network to…
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Video-Based Labs for Introductory Physics Courses: Analyzing and Graphing Motion on Video
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Video-based labs are a powerful tool for improving student understanding of one of the most difficult and important topics in physics: graphs. This article describes common student graphing difficulties, the history of…
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LabWrite: Transforming Lab Reports from Busy Work to Meaningful Learning Opportunities
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Lab reports are the dreaded assignments of the laboratory course. Students dislike them, because they can be tedious and time-consuming. Instructors dislike them, because they significantly increase the grading load.…
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Science Sampler: Recycling aluminum cans in the lab—Two inexpensive inquiry activities
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Don’t throw away that aluminum can! Don’t even place it in the recycling bin. Instead, use it in your next science lab. In addition to the economic advantages of using materials such as aluminum cans, there are also…
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Mixture Mystery: Basic lab techniques and rules for the first day of chemistry class
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This article features a lab that is easy to prepare, takes about 30 minutes to do, involves simple equipment and techniques, and yet allows students to experience the scientific method. The only subject matter involved…
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