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JCE 90.01—January 2013 Issue Highlights
Celebrating 90 Years as the Premier Chemical Education JournalThe January 2013 issue marks the start of the 90th volume of the Journal of Chemical Education. This latest issue plus the content of all...
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Who am I and what is Inquiry?
Who is Sarah Kong and why is she starting a blog for Chem Ed X about Inquiry?It’s true, most people have never heard of me. In fact, Sarah Kong didn’t exist a year ago. That’s because when I got...
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Small Research Projects in the Chemistry Classroom
You may have read Sarah Kong's recent blog post on inquiry on this site. I thought I would give a description of one way I incorporate inquiry learning into one of the chemistry courses I teach. As...
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Teaching Chemistry With a Whole New "App"titude. Intro Blog 1.0
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Doug Ragan and I have been a high school chemistry teacher for fourteen years. Three years ago, I was approached by my high school principal and the...
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JCE 90.02—February 2013 Issue Highlights
Communication Worldwide for the Teaching and Learning of ChemistryThe February 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available. FInd this latest issue plus the content of all issues,...
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CHEMED 2013 CONFERENCE
Sunday, July 28 to Thursday, August 1, 2013, the largest conference in North America focused on teaching high school and introductory chemistry will be hosted by the University of Waterloo, Waterloo,...
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Stoichiometry Resources
Moles, mole ratios and stoichiometry have been frustrating topics for many of my chemistry students. The MOLE and Avogadro’s number get tangled up in other Chemistry jargon and students have stared at...
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Sparking Marshmallows
Have you ever cooked a marshmallow in a microwave? In case you are not familiar with this experiment, when a marshmallow is heated in a microwave, gases trapped in the marshmallow expand and escape....
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Chemistry and Crayola
Have you seen the new Crayola Crystal Effects Window Markers? You can draw on windows with these markers. Better yet, you can use these markers to teach students some chemistry! After drawing on a...
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JCE 90.03—March 2013 Issue Highlights
Teaching Chemistry in the 21st CenturyThe March 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online [http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/90/3]. This latest issue of JCE plus the content...
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Ionic Speed Dating
Attribution: Ruddick, Kristie R and Parrill, Abby L, An Interlocking Building Block Activity in Writing Formulas of Ionic Compounds, Journal of Chemical Education 2012, 89 (11), pp 1436-1438.This...
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NSTA Activities
At NSTA (in beautiful San Antonio, Texas), this past week, I shared activities designed to explore three levels of representation AND provide formative assessment techniques to reveal student...
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Gas Laws—Finally an app for that!
In her blog Stoichiometry Resources Deanna Cullen mentions using PhET simulations based out of the University of Colorado at Boulder. I too made certain simulations a part of my high school chemistry...
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Publishing Your Work
Whether it is a completely unique idea or just a twist on an old classic, engage in collaboration with other chemistry teachers around the world and publish your work. There are many venues and the...
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NGSS
If you haven't seen them yet, check out the final release of the Next Generation Science Standards. There is helpful information at the site. My home state of Michigan is currently asking for public...
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Celebrate Earth Day April 22nd
Celebrate Earth Day, which is on Monday, April 22, 2013. Earth Day was first officially recognized on April 22, 1970. This year the theme is "Our Earth: Handle with Care." The topics this year include...
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JCE 90.04—April 2013 Issue Highlights
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day—Our Earth: Handle with Care!The April 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online [http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/90/4]. This latest issue of...
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PHYSICS 2000
I spent my whole prep period today playing with a site I hadn't seen before: PHYSICS 2000 @ http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=cover.html. I need to spend some more time there. I...
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Inquiry Adaption
Inquiry is a fluid concept. There are some truly fabulous activities on Grand Valley State University's Target Inquiry (TI) website (www.gvsu.edu/targetinquiry). Yes, I am biased as I was part of the...
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Fun with M & M's
I came across a simple, yet interesting experiment that was first described by Elizabeth Sumner Walter in 2001. She merely had students pour water into a dish containing some Gobstoppers candies. I...
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