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Fuchigami, Kei; Schrandt, Matthew; Miessler, Gary L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
A hands-on symmetry project is proposed as an innovative way of teaching point groups to undergraduate chemistry students. Traditionally, courses teaching symmetry require students to identify the point group of a given object. This project asks the reverse: students are instructed to identify an object that matches each point group. Doing so…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Adler, Harry – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1996
Discusses the use of puzzles and jokes to encourage student interest in an English-as-a-Second-Language class. The object of this project was to relate to a more human context, the playfulness that pushes aside arbitrary school time each spring when Purim comes. (CK)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries