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Akcay, Hakan – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2005
The main goals of these activities are to help students learn how a convex lens can serve as a magnifying lens and how light travels and creates images. These explorations will introduce middle school students to different types of lenses and how they work. Students will observe and describe how lenses bend light that passes through them and how…
Descriptors: Light, Visual Perception, Middle School Students, Photography
Schaal, Stefen; Bogner, Franz X. – Journal of Biological Education, 2005
This study compares two methods of instruction in practical school biology. The content remains the same but two teaching methods are used, one based on workstations (Group 1) and the other a conventional approach (Group 2). The content was a regular 9th grade syllabus issue: visual perception. Method 1 included a phenomenological introduction,…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Student Attitudes, Workstations, Hands on Science

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