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Levine, Mindy; DiScenza, Dana J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Reported herein is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a full-day outreach program for high school girls that focuses entirely on sugar-related activities. The program, which we ran in February 2016 and February 2017, included multiple hands-on sugar-based experiments to increase the participants' interest in and enthusiasm for science.…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, High School Students, Females, Science Instruction
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Heavers, Richard M.; Dapp, Rachel M. – Physics Teacher, 2010
Consider a transparent, cylindrical container filled with water and sitting in the center of a record player turntable. When the turntable is started suddenly, the container rotates with the turntable, but the bulk of the fluid initially remains at rest. A thin ([approximately]1 mm) viscous boundary layer (Ekman layer) forms almost immediately at…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Science Education