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School Science Review 361

Editor Geoff Auty

Issue 361 | Published June 2016

Overview

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Contents

p.9 Science Note: Bringing Joule back to school

p.14 The Wheatstone bridge revisited

p.16 Helpdesk

p.18 Making research fly in schools: Drosophila as a powerful modern tool for teaching biology

p.23 A classroom-based study of the use of a rich-task in year 12 chemistry topromote independent learning and student motivation

p.30 An oxygen sensor using zinc air electrochemical cells: a simple device to demonstrate applied technology in electrochemistry teaching

p.35 Enhancing the chemistry curriculum: looking to nature

p.37 A musical analogy which helps to explain the wave-particle duality of the electron

p.43 It seems our source has run out of alphas! The odd behaviour of some americium-241 cup sources

p.51 Going with the flow: using analogies to explain electric circuits

p.59 Nanometry education: ideas for teaching and learning nanoscale measurements

p.63 Modelling scientific concepts in the school grounds

p.68 Novelty, variety, relevance, challenge and assessment: how science investigations influence the motivation of year 11 students in New Zealand

p.75 Developing teaching with an explicit focus on scientific thinking

p.86 Using advertising as a teaching and learning medium in the science classroom

p.93 The validity of the GCSE (age 16+) examination

p.101 Does the use of mobile multimedia devices in practical lessons affect the motivation of pupils?

p.109 Working towards evidence-based practice in science teaching and learning

p.117 Learning science through creating of simple animations in both primary and secondary schools

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