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Direct linkMadden, Lauren; Seifried, Joyce; Farnum, Kerry; D'Armiento, Angela – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2016
Discrepant events are often used by science educators to incite interest and excitement in learners, yet sometimes their results are farther-reaching. The following article describes how one such event--dissolving packing peanuts in acetone--led to a change in the course of a college-level elementary science teaching methods class and to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Peer reviewedAndrews, Edwin S. – Science Activities, 1974
Describes a science activity in which sixth-grade students, using tookpicks and spherical breakfast cereals to construct molecular models, discovered that compounds with the same molecular formulas can have different structural formulas and therefore different physical properties (isomerism). (JR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Elementary School Science, Grade 6, Instruction
