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...
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Using chemistry articles to promote scientific literacy in the classroom
"Teaching the chemistry curriculum in a relevant societal context gives students a hook for exploring the subject while an understanding...
Literacy in the chemistry classroom
"Purposefully teaching the language and practices specific to particular disciplines, such as science, history and mathematics, is...
Prevention of Flu? No ProbLlama!
New influenza vaccines are released every year to keep up with the rapidly changing influenza viruses. A study published recently in...
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...
Burn a small hole in your pocket, or suffer the risk of burning down your house?
Chemistry for Life and Society One of our goals of science education is to enthuse and nurture students to be scientifically literate in...
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...
Happy Halloween!
What does Halloween remind you of? Did you say pumpkin heads, glow in the dark items, creepy crawlers - in particular, spiders and spider...
Feynman on Physics and Other Sciences
The ArtScience Musuem is currently holding an exhibition on Richard Feynman until 3 March 2019. For those who are familiar with him, you...
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...
2018 World Science Day for Peace and Development
Every November 10, this annual celebration focuses attention on the need for citizens around the world to become more engaged in the...
Goodbye, Google+; Welcome Back, Facebook!
We were saddened to hear of Google+ being shutdown because of our strong community formed on the Google+ platform. Where is our wonderful...
Flat Is Boring
Access BIOZONE for their digital 3D models that are freely available to all now! Their well-labelled models for cell biology are great...
Plan A Runway Lesson
Models and Modelling in Teaching and Learning Models extend beyond the familiar 3D physical models (e.g. of cell structure). Think of a...
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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