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Atomic Theory
Starting the school year with an introduction or review of atomic
theory? We’ve put together some creative activities for addressing the
topic that can help you engage your students. Most are low or no cost
and are varied enough to appeal to students with different learning
styles. See the following link for more.
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What Is Matter?
Help your students understand the methodology behind classifying matter
with this hands-on activity. Students classify 10 common substances
using a worksheet, discuss and compare their results, and then develop a
flowchart based on the worksheet to guide further exploration. Get the
details below.
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Understanding Unfamiliar Units: What Is a Light-Year?
Here’s an activity that gets your students moving while they practice
measuring and manipulating units. By putting time and distance traveled
into units students can directly relate to, the abstract concept of the
light-year is more easily understood. Learn more about this inexpensive,
fun activity at the link below. |
Teaching the Scientific Method with Effervescent Tablets
In this activity, students learn the scientific method by practicing it.
After a thorough introduction to the topic, students participate in an
endothermic reaction experiment illustrating each step in the scientific
method. An extension activity lets students explore further. Learn more
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Force and Motion
Introduce young students to the concepts of force and motion with this
kinetic activity. Taking to the playground or gym with a variety of
balls, students observe how the balls move, stop, and change direction.
Adapted from the Building Blocks of Science® kindergarten unit,
Push, Pull, Go. Bounce to the link below for more. |
Carolina Has an App for That
Carolina's educational apps for the iPod touch®, iPhone®, and iPad® are
here and ready to electronically aid your students. All of our apps are
available in a free "lite" version and a purchasable full-featured
version. Follow the links below to check them out at Carolina.com and
the iTunes® App Store. |
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Carolina's Flickr® Photostream
Our photographers have captured thousands of scientific images over the
decades, and we're giving you free access to selected ones via our
Flickr® Photostream. Click the icon to jump right in or the link below
to test the water.
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Wolfe® Microscopes |
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Save $50 on Select Wolfe® CFL Educational Microscopes
Join Wolfe® in celebrating their Golden Anniversary—and save, too! Simply
include promotion code ZM with your order*. But hurry, the celebration
ends on 10/4/2011.
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Finding the Elements Chemistry Demo Kit
See 1 of our most popular chemistry kits in action. A staff chemist demonstrates
how to separate the elements copper, sulfur, and carbon from some common
compounds using the kit. This brief video is an excellent way to “virtually” try
the kit before you buy it. Follow the link below to see for yourself.
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Better, Safer Flame Tests
When you do flame tests, use cotton-tipped swabs soaked in the salt solutions
overnight. Set the swabs out for a few hours before the lab. As water from the
solution evaporates off the swabs, salt will begin to crust on them. This makes
a better flame test than using wet swabs and is safer than using ethanol. I have
even kept the salt solutions in the beakers for a couple of weeks until all the
water evaporated and the salt was left behind. At that time, I would scrape off
some of the salt and redo the flame tests as a review demo.
Submitted by:
Mica Rose
Searcy High School
Searcy, AR
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*This offer is limited to select Wolfe® CFL Educational Microscopes. To receive
$50 off your order, please include promotion code ZM when placing the
order by phone, fax, mail, or Web (type ZM in the Promotion Code box during
online checkout). Offer expires October 4, 2011; cannot be combined with
any other offer or contract pricing; excludes Carolina™ Curriculum materials;
and cannot be used to credit account. |
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