Review for:Science Facts on File

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posted: on April 16, 2007 at 3:47PM

My rating of this resource: ***

My experience using this resource:
Conceptual Chemistry

Topic I was teaching:
Air pollution

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
To use it as an introduction to our study of air pollution

Course Level:
Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:
Students read the article and prepared for a discussion. They were required to formulate questions they wanted to know more about.

Value Added:
Provides additional content, Increases student engagement and motivation

Strengths:
In a very compact way this source offers students and faculty a chance to find resources that might not be found in a general search. The breadth of the resource gives me additional resources. I do like the biographical options as they offer a diverse grouping of scientists.

Weaknesses:
It lacks some of the topics I teach and some of the readings are not very thorough. I have surveyed some of the experiments which are interesting but where would I put them.

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