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Hey Bruce, Do You Use This?

Never heard of it before. Looks like fun, though. Anybody here have a set?

I was required to buy a molecular model set for an organic chemistry class when I was an undergrad. I felt a little silly, almost like I was back in first grade buying crayons and glue. The damn set was $40, and didn't even have enough parts to make a decent bucky-ball. :(
 
When I took anatomy at U.C. Davis, we had to buy this anatomy coloring book. We all felt sort of silly in the library with our crayons coloring this book, but it actually helped alot. The anatomy teacher at the high school I work at, now, uses the same book for his class. He's a UCD alum.

I've found that some of the more primary activities; coloring, cutting & pasting actually work very very well. I think by manually manipulating something, this makes it stick in the brain better.
 
cbish said:
When I took anatomy at U.C. Davis, we had to buy this anatomy coloring book. We all felt sort of silly in the library with our crayons coloring this book, but it actually helped alot. The anatomy teacher at the high school I work at, now, uses the same book for his class. He's a UCD alum.

I've found that some of the more primary activities; coloring, cutting & pasting actually work very very well. I think by manually manipulating something, this makes it stick in the brain better.
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That also reminds me that my freshman chemistry professor bought us balloons to teach us about hybridized orbitals and symmetry. It actually made sense why an sp3 hybridized orbital is tetrahedral after twisting balloons together.

Ballons don't cost $40's a pack though! :(
 
Bruce wrote:
Ballons don't cost $40's a pack though!
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It's amazing how that work's. Educational materials, whether for the classroom or athletic field are outragously expensive. Buy a video at the video store and it's $20.00. Buy it out of an educational supply catalog and it'll be ten times that much.

I coached baseball for 13 years. I used to attend all the conferences both regionally and nationally. We'd tour the vendors, not to buy anything, but to see how we could make it. Buy an indoor pitching mound for $1500 or make your own out of plywood and astroturf. Buy a few pitching screens for $400 a pop or make your own out of PVC pipe.

I remember a few years back we were chuckling while thumbing through one of our catalogs. You could buy two dozen beer bottles for $75.00;)
 
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