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Khdir Ahmed Othman; Rebaz Anwar Omer; Abdalla Ali Amin Mohammad; Damir A. Safin – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Functional group analysis is an essential part of the curriculum for identifying unknown organic compounds. However, traditional methods of analyzing functional groups use excess reagents and generate a large amount of waste material that is difficult to dispose of. This work is focused on alternative methods for detecting functional groups such…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Evaluation Methods
Ângelo Luís; Fernanda Domingues – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Bacteria have developed a cell-to-cell communication system called quorum sensing (QS), allowing them to regulate group behavior and synchronize the expression of virulence factors, responsible for increasing their infection capacity and resistance to antimicrobials. Although the control of microbial infections through the inhibition of microbial…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Evaluation Methods, Science Experiments, Microbiology
DeGlopper, Kimberly S.; Schwarz, Cara E.; Ellias, Niall J.; Stowe, Ryan L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
To potentially engage students in "doing organic chemistry", organic chemistry courses should foreground weaving together structure- and energy-related ideas to construct causal accounts for phenomena. Here, we investigate whether enrolling in an organic chemistry course that places substantial emphasis ([approximately]50% of total…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Marissa L. Clapson; Shauna Schechtel; Brian Gilbert; Vivian Janet Mozol – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Gamification of learning in chemistry education is a growing field. Chemistry themed escape room activities, incorporating course learning objectives into puzzle solution, have become a popular tool allowing for students to apply course knowledge in novel settings. Escape room activities, like their public counterparts, provide subtle guidance to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Chemistry, Gamification, Teaching Methods
Katherine Landau Wright; Julianne Wenner; Tracey S. Hodges – Reading Teacher, 2024
One strategy for developing science literacy and scientific literacy in young children is through published trade books. To better understand how science literacy and scientific literacy may be represented in elementary classrooms, we investigated children's books that explore science concepts. Specifically, we examined high-quality science trade…
Descriptors: Books, Misinformation, Scientific Literacy, Elementary School Students
Howard, Andrew J. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Most textbooks and lecturers present Michaelis-Menten kinetics using the equation v = V[subscript max][S]/(K[subscript m] + [S]). There are advantages to presenting this relationship in a slightly different form, namely v = V[subscript max]/{1 + (K[subscript m]/[S])}. We articulate advantages for single-substrate reactions and extend the formalism…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Kinetics, Equations (Mathematics), Teaching Methods
Annika L. Medrano; Thomas M. Gilbert; Christine M. Morales – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR) as explained in most textbooks predicts that substituents bonded to a central atom in AX[subscript n]E[subscript z][superscript c] species (A = main-group central atom, X = substituent, E = lone pair on central atom, c = charge) will change their X-A-X angles to bend away from the lone pairs.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Paolo Bussotti – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
The problem here dealt with concerns physics education, and specifically the concept of force. The idea behind this research is that a historical approach to the teaching of such a notion is of great help for the students to fully understand the meaning of this basic physical magnitude. For, most of scientific concepts can be better grasped by the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Seul-gi Lee; Buhm Soon Park – Science & Education, 2025
No scientific concept in the twenty-first century has garnered more attention from scholars outside the scientific community than the Anthropocene. Despite the official rejection by the geological community in March 2024 of the proposal for an Anthropocene Epoch as a formal unit of the Geological Time Scale, it is expected to remain an invaluable…
Descriptors: Climate, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Sokolowski, Andrzej – Physics Teacher, 2023
Transfer of structural math knowledge to physics is difficult for students. While research suggests various improvement techniques, enhancing parallelism of algebraic structures used in physics to those studied in mathematics courses seems underrepresented. This paper proposes an alternative way of introducing wave functions as a set of parametric…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Equations (Mathematics)
Xiaowei Tang; David Hammer – Science Education, 2024
How anthropomorphic reasoning functions in scientific thinking has been a controversial topic. There is evidence it is problematic as well as evidence it can play productive roles, for scientists and for students. In science education, however, the prevailing view remains that it is an impediment. For this study, we have chosen examples of what we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Story Telling
Dagher, Zoubeida R.; Erduran, Sibel – Science & Education, 2023
Nine years after reconceptualizing the nature of science for science education using the family resemblance approach (FRA) (Erduran & Dagher, 2014a), the time is ripe for taking stock of what this approach has accomplished, and what future research it can facilitate. This reflective paper aims to accomplish three goals. The first addresses…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Thomas S. Kuntzleman – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
An activity is described that uses simple materials and an easy-to-perform protocol to estimate the Curie temperature of nickel, which is the temperature at which nickel loses its ferromagnetism. To do so, an object made of nickel metal is heated with a lighter until it loses its ferromagnetism. The metal is allowed to drop into a beaker that…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments
Minkin, Leonid; Sikes, Daniel – Physics Teacher, 2021
This article analyzes and experimentally verifies the stability behavior of the equilibrium states of a conical pendulum. An analysis of the motion presents that the equilibrium states of the pendulum are determined by the pendulum angular speed. For a given pendulum length there exists a critical angular speed that determines stability…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Motion
Taylor G. Hood; Xuyang He – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Incorporating forensic applications into chemical education serves as an effective strategy for engaging college students and equipping them with the skills necessary to become valuable in the workforce in relevant fields. For instance, learning how to extract controlled substances from biological specimens in a laboratory course is essential for…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Law Enforcement, Science Instruction, Diagnostic Tests