October 29, 1999
A University Offers On-Line Science Lesson for Middle-School Students Worldwide
What determines the temperature at which water boils? With help from a New Jersey university, middle-school students around the world are using the Internet to find out for themselves, instead of simply reading the answer in a textbook.
Classes participating in an experiment called the International Boiling Point Project, which began September 13, are doing the measurements in their schools. Using a form on the World-Wide Web, each class will report the
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