Category Archives: Effective Teaching

Multimedia Science – Free Software & Materials For Teachers & Students

The company Multimedia Science is no longer selling its science software and game making software.  However, the company is allowing anyone to use these materials free of charge. Feel free to share them with other teachers.   The Word file … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science Porting Science Applications to Android Platform

Multimedia Science has ported many of its science games, simulations, tutorials, and labs to the Android platform. You can get a list of all of these FREE science applications by providing your name and email in the spaces on the … Continue reading

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Physics Teachers and Students – FREE Android Acceleration Game Now Available

Another FREE Android physics application, the Acceleration Game, is now available.   The link below will take you to the Acceleration Game. The Acceleration Game software helps students to gain a “gut” understanding of acceleration by playing two games. The … Continue reading

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Physics Teachers – FREE Android Projectile Hoops (projectile motion) Software

Multimedia Science is offering a FREE Android version of the Projectile Hoops software for physics or physical science teachers. In the Projectile Hoops software, a ball is shot into projectile motion with a known angle and initial velocity. Students must … Continue reading

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The Electric Arc Furnace – Smoking is Bad for Your Health

Science Teaching & Technology by Multimedia Science Industrial Experience & the Science Classroom  The Electric Arc Furnace – Smoking is Bad for Your Health After fifteen years as a chemical engineer, I made a career switch into high school science … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science SALE – December 2016 – 50% Off

2017 SUMMER SALE on all chemistry, physics, and teacher tools software and materials on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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The Semantics of Chemical Bond Energies

Recently, I received an e-mail about a product called Snatoms.  No, this is not a new low calorie snack made out of atoms, but a clever molecular modeling kit.   While listening to one of the Snatom YouTube videos, it … Continue reading

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Remembering My Period 6 Physics Class

The Joys of Science Teaching or Be Careful What You Say There is an old saying “out of the mouths of babes,” which means something that you say when a small child says something that surprises you because it shows … Continue reading

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The Smokestack – Not All It’s Stacked Up To Be

Science Teaching & Technology by Multimedia Science Industrial Experience & the Science Classroom Question: Does industrial experience help a teacher to explain science concepts in the classroom? My findings after spending 15 years in chemical engineering and 30 years teaching … Continue reading

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Multimedia Science Android Apps Now On Appliv Discovery Platform

A number of Multimedia Science’s chemistry and physics applications have been ported to and are now available as Android Apps.  One example is the Torque Challenge where you must understand torque to balance the beam.  And several of these apps are free, like … Continue reading

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