Students in Jerry Jensen’s biology classes have learned to love spinach. Of course, they’re not actually eating it. Armed with Vernier technology and data-collection software, Jensen’s students in Minnesota’s Luverne Independent School Distri...
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There is a lot of pressure when it comes to preparing students for standardized testing and providing them with an engaging and enriching experience. When I thought about standardized testing, I felt trapped. Instead of focusing on test-based tasks,...
Using the Infrared Thermometer to measure temperature
Is the heat given off by 500 people enough to change the temperature inside a large auditorium? How does the temperature and salinity of a tide pool compare to that of the nearby ocean water? The...
Not only does this exciting reaction change from green to blue to purple to red, in less than a minute, but then it repeats the four color sequence continuously for over an hour! This very famous reaction is known as the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reactio...
A cute bath product made by Crayola®, called Bathtub Tints, offered us an interesting opportunity to conduct a few simple chemistry activities. The ads that we have seen for this product describe it as effervescent water color tablets. The first...
Reprinted with permission from the author Roger Delpech and the publication School Science Review.
School Science Review (the ASE’s journal for science education 11 - 19), ASE, March 2006, 87 (320)
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This paper introduces the use of a ...
Keith Michaelsen, Southington High School, Southington, CT, contacted us to discuss ways to show students that the impulse delivered during an elastic collision is twice the impulse delivered by an inelastic collision. This is a counterintuitive con...
Original Source: "iPad and Weightlessness,"" The Physics Teacher, May 2012, by Taoufik Nadji.
Now that cell phones and tablet computers have built-in accelerometers, it is natural that physics instructors would want to use them for experiments. In t...
Vitamin B2, also known as Riboflavin, is a vital component of the cofactors that support all flavoproteins. The highest concentrations in the body are found in the liver, kidneys, and heart. This vitamin is very important to the heart because it pla...
In 2013, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) partnered with INDYCAR® to create a unique outreach initiative for eighth-grade students called The Future of Fast. Activity pods were set up at various INDYCAR race venues throughout the country to provid...