Make sense of nanochemistry and nanotechnology

Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-10

  Ambrogi, Paola ^a   Caselli, Monica ^a   Montalti, Marco ^b   Venturi, Margherita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; Nanotechnology; Quantitative analysis; Situated learning; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549124056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11094028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b801285g     Document Type: Article

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