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School Science Review 361

Editor Geoff Auty

Issue 361 | Published June 2016

Overview

June 2016 (Issue 361) With no theme in this edition, this issue features a variety of shared ideas from the UK and around the world. From Manchester where research students deliver workshops to schools involving the use of fruit flies to Cologne in Germany where a project considers if the use of new technologies can motivate students to produce more effective practical investigations.

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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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