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Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of...
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The title of this chapter is a compact way of saying that it covers two separate branches of chemistry. The first is electrochemistry and the second i...
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This is the second chemistry book in the Stop Faking It! series—the first one is Chemistry Basics. This book introduces new concepts and expands on...
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This chapter is about states of matter and a section of chemistry called thermodynamics which is the inspiration (or lack thereof) for the chapter tit...
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To begin this chapter, you need to picture electrons in atoms as residing in orbitals—those fuzzy things that can be spherical, dumbbell-shaped, or ...
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The basics of chemical reactions were covered in the first chemistry book, including how to write and balance chemical equations that represent those ...
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Half a Life is Better Than None
Most of chemistry deals with chemical reactions and, hence, with how electrons in atoms behave either in single atoms or when those atoms get together...
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It would be impossible to investigate even a fraction of organic chemistry in this book, so in this chapter the author goes over a few things that wil...
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes
Wouldn't it be helpful to know what your students' ideas are about a science concept before launching into a new lesson or unit? Uncovering Student Id...
By Joyce Tugel, Page Keeley
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about magnetism. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students be...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about temperature in the context of phases of matter. The probe is designed to find ...
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 3: Another 25 Formative Assessment Probes
Because you demanded it! Since publication of Volume 1 of this series, thousands of teachers are using these innovative classroom tools to improve stu...
By Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, Chad Dorsey
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As stated in “About This Book,” the author isn’t going to take the usual approach to the subject of chemistry. Because virtually all explanation...