Analogies in teaching freshman chemistry

Collaborative Teaching Across Freshman Information Technology and Chemistry Courses

College SCienCe TeaChing F aculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, often look for potential collaborations between departments to provide the cadets (students) with a broader sense of how topics interrelate in their courses. Because our curriculum is very structured, with 30 core courses in a 40to 43-course program, students are generally enrolled in the same cours...

Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students

This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, having a two-fold goal: the opening of a new area of interest for students and the integration of computing and technology programs at Cameron University.

Teaching freshman logic with Mizar-MSE

An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approach in Teaching Freshman Engineering Design

1 Deran Hanesian, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science, Tiernan Hall, Newark, New Jersey 07102, [email protected] 2 Angelo J. Perna, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Science, Tiernan Hall, Newark, New Jersey 07102, [email protected] Abstract---In the ear...

Analogies for Teaching Mutant Allele Dominance Concepts

concepts or ideas are involved. Regardless of type, analogies share common features, such as the familiar concept or idea (analog), the new concept or idea (target), elements of similarity between the analog and target (links, features, or attributes), and the mapping of similarities between the target and analog (Glynn, 1995). Even though all analogies share those common features, they vary si...