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Sarah Duggan

By Sarah Duggan
Published December 16, 2015

Ask any child who graduates from Windaroo State School to explain what a ‘solute’ or ‘solvent’ is and the chances are they will have no qualms in answering.

In fact, nutting out scientific concepts usually only tackled by secondary school students is pretty much second nature for the ...

This story appeared in the December 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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