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Samuelsson, Christopher Robin; Ho, Felix M.; Elmgren, Maja; Haglund, Jesper – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
This study adds to the growing body of research on laboratory work. The study involves four pairs of students in a university introductory calorimetry lab of which two pairs, the IR-pairs (infrared camerapairs), were given access to infrared cameras to use however they liked during their course lab work. Two other pairs, the T-pairs…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Introductory Courses
Thiam, Mouhamadou – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
Students have several misconceptions about thermodynamics. However, an understanding of basic concepts in this branch of physics remains fundamental to explain thermal phenomena. The purpose of this activity was to extend students' conceptual understanding of heat, temperature, energy, and thermal insulators and conductors. Two groups of students…
Descriptors: Thermodynamics, Grade 7, Science Instruction, Science Activities
Garimella, Umadevi; Sahin, Nesrin – Science Teacher, 2021
One way to develop a cross-curricular lesson is to select the most common mathematical formulas used in science and carefully develop and implement tasks that allow students to make connections between the mathematical representations and theoretical/physical science concepts. The slope-intercept formula, which is used to study relationships…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Mathematical Formulas, Mathematical Concepts
Stephens, Lisa I.; Mauzeroll, Janine – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
One of the unique advantages of electrochemistry is that the relationship between thermodynamics and kinetics is quantitative, which is the basis of voltammetry. Mathematical models of electrochemical systems take advantage of this relationship to predict the effect of changing a system property (e.g., concentration, scan rate, or rate constant)…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Mathematical Models, Thermodynamics, Kinetics
Emery, Patrick; Yezierski, Ellen J.; Page, Richard C. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
Visualizations are useful tools for helping students to understand chemistry concepts at the particulate level. A classroom activity was developed based on learning theory and evidence-based practices, combining protein visualization with thermodynamic parameters from differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) data analysis. Coding of student…
Descriptors: Visualization, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Rosa, Clarissa H.; Antelo, Francine; Rosa, Gilber R. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2018
A 4-week mini-project is proposed for an experimental Physical Chemistry course applied in Food Science training. Activities include preparation of beet extract for the extraction of betanins and analysis of the kinetics of betanins in thermal degradation at three temperatures (60, 70, and 80 ºC). In addition to developing common laboratory…
Descriptors: Food, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Activities
Tan, Kim Chwee Daniel; Yeo, Jennifer; Tan, Poh Hiang; Ong, Aloysius – Primary Science, 2019
Pupils often find the concepts of heat and temperature difficult to understand and differentiate. The authors believe that an image-to-writing approach can help pupils learn these two abstract concepts -- an approach that uses a series of guided enquiry activities involving heat and temperature. The basic premise is that pupils produce images to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Heat, Thermodynamics
Kizilaslan, Aydin; Zorluoglu, S. Levent; Sözbilir, Mustafa – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
Students with visual impairments have the same span of cognitive abilities as their peers, but science instruction typically relies very heavily on vision. The preponderance of visually oriented and visually complex science concepts poses significant challenges to learning among students with visual impairment. This study is engaging, hands-on…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods
Cybulskis, Viktor J.; Gawecki, Piotr; Zvinevich, Yury; Gounder, Rajamani; Ribeiro, Fabio H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
A versatile and portable apparatus was developed to demonstrate exciting visual displays of catalytic phenomena that introduce basic concepts in catalysis, renewable energy, and chemical safety, in order to pique scientific curiosity in a variety of audiences including middle and high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Keisha Varma – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Increasingly, research on cognition, learning, and education seeks to understand the cognitive processes underlying conceptual understanding. This is especially true for efforts to understand how students learn science. The present case summarizes work that examines 6- to 10-year-old students engage in scientific reasoning to learn new scientific…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning
Phillips, Jeffrey A. – Physics Teacher, 2016
While entropy is often described as "disorder," it is better thought of as a measure of how spread out energy is within a system. To illustrate this interpretation of entropy to introductory college or high school students, several activities have been created. Students first study the relationship between microstates and macrostates to…
Descriptors: Energy, College Students, High School Students, Teaching Methods
Dolo, Gilbert; Haglund, Jesper; Schönborn, Konrad – Designs for Learning, 2018
Inquiry-based approaches to science education are central to recent South African primary and secondary school curricula, but have been found challenging to adopt in disadvantaged township contexts. It is therefore important to find ways of introducing inquiry-based approaches, where pupils are encouraged to investigate phenomena they are…
Descriptors: Photography, Semiotics, Slum Schools, Inquiry
Liberatore, Matthew W.; Morrish, Rachel M.; Vestal, Charles R. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2017
The utility of Just-In-Time-Teaching (JITT) is compared across course topics and groups of students not receiving JITT exercises in class. JITT feedback incorporated various active learning exercises based on students' performance on online homework problems from Sapling Learning. With over 200 students in two sections participating in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Thermodynamics, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods
Sharda, Vandana; Sastri, O. S. K. S.; Bhardwaj, Jyoti; Jha, Arbind K. – Physics Education, 2016
In this paper, we present a simple spreadsheet based simulation activity that can be performed by students at the undergraduate level. This simulation is implemented in free open source software (FOSS) LibreOffice Calc, which is available for both Windows and Linux platform. This activity aims at building the probability distribution for the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Spreadsheets, Concept Teaching, Scientific Concepts