Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Karen Rader provided an overview of the purpose of science education. This lesson plan about Cold War-era science education films opens ...

The cliches of classroom science films —the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation ...

“The instrument,” as it’s called, seems to take up the entire room. The sprawling molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system is all tubes, bolts, stainless steel components, and air-tight glass. It can ...

Movies are a half-century old and educators tried feebly to make teaching tools of them decades ago. Even now they are a mere educational side show. But last week the University of Chicago gave signs ...

Creativity is essential in every step of the scientific process, asserts a team of Rutgers researchers. To illustrate their point, they have put together a short film showing how biologists, chemists, ...