Teaching and learning relies on age-appropriate, credible formal (e.g., textbooks, textbook supplements) and informal (e.g., trade-books) curricular texts. Previous research traced American publishers' self-censorship about human evolution within twentieth-century textbooks. This study, informed by the latest scientific understandings, engaged in…

Science is concerned with understanding the world. As such, engaging with the materiality of that world is integral to both empirical experimentation and theorising within science. However, it has been recognised for some time that the way scientists learn about the world and the way that young people learn about science cannot be simply equated.…

The science education budget of many secondary schools has decreased, while shortages and environmental concerns linked to conventional Science Education Equipment and Materials (SEEMs) have emerged. Thus, in some schools, resourceful educators produce low-cost equipment from basic materials and use these so-called improvised SEEMs in practical…

Curriculum materials serve as a key conceptual tool for science teachers, and better understanding how science teachers use these tools could help to improve both curriculum design and theory related to teacher learning and decision-making. The authors review the literature on teachers and science curriculum materials. The review is organised…

Developing and updating subject knowledge is an important and ongoing area of professional development. As well as formal subject-specific CPD, teachers can extend their pedagogical subject knowledge by researching and using curriculum materials. This article reviews the resources available from the National STEM Centre eLibrary to help teachers…

Dynamic visualisations capture aspects of scientific phenomena that are difficult to communicate in static materials and benefit from well-designed scaffolds to succeed in classrooms. We review research to clarify the impacts of dynamic visualisations and to identify instructional scaffolds that mediate their success. We use meta-analysis to…

Reviews recent findings regarding the preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone (LH) in the reproductive cycle. Diagrams and textual information are presented detailing aspects of the feedback loops involved in the hypothalamo-pituitary-ovarian axis. (CS)

Reviews the application of orbital symmetry principles to an understanding of the fluxional behavior of certain organometallic compounds, with particular reference to the cyclopolyenylmetal systems. (CS)

Relates a number of fundamental misconceptions and errors relating to the concepts of the crystal lattice and crystal symmetry. (CS)

Describes how a simplified version of order-disorder theory can be presented in an undergraduate course on physical or solid state chemistry. This version is also shown to be useful in dealing with a variety of physical phenomena. (CS)

Discusses optical fiber materials necessary for high performance telecommunications applications, fiber strength and coating, loss in optical fibers, and radiation damage in optical fibers. (CS)

Reviews the structure, preparation, and physical properties of a series of compounds characterized by structures formed from sublattices which have incommensurate repeat distances in one or two directions. (Author/CS)

Describes some contemporary concepts unique to the structure of advanced solids, i.e., their crystal distortions, domain structures, modulated structures, ferrimagnetism, and composition dependence. (Author/CS)

Introduces luminescence by characterizing phosphors, describing phosphor phenomena, presenting a configurational coordinate model of characteristic luminescence, and describing some commercial applications of phosphors. (CS)

Presents a combined knowledge of both the chemistry and physics of amorphous conductors in an attempt to understand these unconventional solids. (CS)