How do chemists identify the molecules that give foods their flavor?
Did you know that our sense of taste and smell being related actually helps us interpret the chemical world? Though they are separate...
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A Cold Pack from Hot "Ice"
Science projects and investigations are useful opportunities for students to engage in scientific inquiry. Depending on the learning...
Bees can do math too!
Thought human beings are the only ones who can do arithmetic? Think again. A recent study published in Science Advances shows that bees...
Nature of Science
Science education cannot be the mere acquisition of a body of content knowledge per se but should instead proactively engage students to...
What do you think of during an ultrasound scan?
This self-aware video has attracted interesting comments also regarding Steve Mould's ability to find awesome physics in everyday life......
IPSG Physics Symposium 2019
We had another great round of sharing under IPSG to kick off the year, this time at the beautiful campus of Temasek Junior College....
An idea for pi day but it's only January
This is a fascinating example of the beautiful mathematics buried in simple physical theories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXj...
Unravelling antibiotic resistance with Mobile-CRISPRi so as to design better antibiotics
You may have probably heard of CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Caspase 9) which is a genetic...
Can we "run out" of elements?
"Phosphorus: 350 years after its discovery, this vital element is running out" Phosphorus was accidentally discovered by a German...
It's the holiday season, time for some holiday Chemistree?
Christmas is coming, but aren't we all bored of the usual Christmas tree that we see every year? How about trying something new this year...
Connecting Evolution & Climate Change
Fellow teachers, do you yearn to try new things in your classroom in 2019? I would like to recommend you an inquiry and investigation...
Measurement Uncertainty
Many students (and let us confess, teachers as well!) get frustrated and confused by seemingly inconsistent d.p./s.f. rules for recording...
The Benzene Ring Heuristic - An approach to representing the Practices of Science
In this issue, we will look at how the Benzene Ring Heuristic (BRH) can be used as a pedagogical tool for communicating practices of...
Virtual Experiments
I would like to thank Mr Poh Wei Leong for his contribution to some of the resource ideas in this article. Educators have practiced using...
The SI Unit Change
The SI Unit Change Based on the 2018 Physics IPSGX Keynote Sharing by Dr Thomas Liew at Eunoia JC. How do we measure? Most of us take...
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