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Aydin, Sevgi; Friedrichsen, Patricia M.; Boz, Yezdan; Hanuscin, Deborah L. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine experienced chemistry teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for two different topics in chemistry to better understand how PCK is specific to topic, including whether all components of PCK are topic-specific and to what degree. To explore the topic-specific nature of PCK, we examined two experienced…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Aydin, Sevgi; Hanuscin, Deborah L. – Science Teacher, 2011
In this article, the authors describe a lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle to help students not only understand the atomic model but also how Ernest Rutherford helped develop it. The lesson uses Rutherford's gold foil experiment to focus on three aspects of the nature of science: the empirical nature of science, the tentativeness of scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Learning Processes, Science Instruction, Nuclear Energy