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Creating a Student-Centered Physical Chemistry Class
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Using guided reading materials in an upper-division college chemistry course, students assumed more responsibility for their learning. This paper describes the guided reading materials and explains how the authors…
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Waves on the Fly: Encouraging Inquiry in the Physics Classroom
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Developing inquiry-based labs can seem pretty overwhelming, especially if you are new to the process. The secret is in the environment--when students feel comfortable asking questions and are encouraged to work together…
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Rules of Teaching That I learned in My Student Years
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As teachers we commonly learn our subject matter in high school and college. We acquire more knowledge in graduate school and in life experiences. At what stage do we learn how to teach? Answers vary. This article is…
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The First and Most Important Day of Class
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Focus on Physics
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What other profession gives summers off, with the bonus of teaching in different locations? In this article I’ll tell how taking leaves of absence to teach at other locations was one of the opportunities that I enjoyed…
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Understanding the Elements: The physics and symmetry of the periodic table of the elements
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The Periodic Table of the Elements, or the Mendeleev Chart, is the starting point for chemistry and critical for learning physics as well. This article is an effort to explain, from fundamentals, how the periodic table…
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Models for Integrating Technology in Higher Education: The Physics of Sound
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Institutions that place laptops in the hands of every student offer unique opportunities to integrate technology into instruction. The following is a description of how various technologies have been introduced into a…
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Science 101: What Is the Physics Behind Simple Machines?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author discusses simple machines.
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Particle Physics Primer: Explaining the Standard Model of matter
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For the past 35 years, scientists have developed a more basic model of the universe—the Standard Model—that specifically addresses the age-old question, "What is the world made of?" The Standard Model of matter provides…
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