Recipe for Developing High-School Research Projects Illustrated by a Student’s Interpretation of Historical Metal Casting

• Roxanne P. Spencer ^[1] ; Yingyi Liang ^[1]
  1. [1] Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science (PRISMS), United States
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 96, Nº 6, 2019, págs. 1117-1123
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Incorporating research activities at the secondary-school level is an effective method to teach science; however, students and teachers may feel intimidated when trying to identify a suitable research topic. Ideas may be obtained from short articles in periodicals or newspapers to allow students to design their own experiments and interpret data. To illustrate how high-school research projects can be developed from such sources and accomplished with simple techniques and tools, a student-directed project inspired by historical metal-casting methods is described. References to key steps in the process of scientific inquiry are included to demonstrate how simple ideas can yield research questions.