Designing, teaching, and evaluating a unit on symmetry and crystallography in the high school classroom

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 946-949

  Grove, Nathaniel P ^a   Collins, David J ^b,d   López, Joseph J ^b   Bretz, Stacey Lowery ^b   Zhou, Hong Cai ^b,e   Guerin, Nathan P ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Talawanda High School ^*

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69549086447     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed086p946     Document Type: Article

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