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Tell Me a Story
Let’s get a coffee and you can tell me your story.Let me explain why I don’t have my homework.Our data might not look good, but wait till you hear what happened!Just as our lives and various...
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Not All Periodic Tables are the Same?
Upon sharing my array of apps with some future chemistry teachers, they asked why so many Periodic Tables? My response was “Well not all periodic tables are the same”, upon which was followed by...
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Coding in Chemistry
Computer coding has been getting a lot of attention with the Hour of Code movement and President Obama’s recent “Computer Science for All” initiative. Just like it is no longer solely the job of the...
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Especially JCE: March 2016
Is the cover of the March 2016 issue (see photo) of the Journal of Chemical Education a familiar scene? It is to me. I’ve spent many hours surrounded by shelves full of books and journals, in all of...
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When am I ever going to use this????
What am I doing to help kids achieve?How do I know when they are there?What is the evidence? Fortunately, I am blessed to work with some fantastic people who, after a number of years, understand my...
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Four Ways to Fight Spring Fever
Today is the first day of daylight savings time. Ouch. My students are sleep-walking, zombie-like creatures with a single obsession: the countdown to Spring Break. Their teacher is no different this...
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An Unexpected Source of Inquiry-Based Lab Practicals
Each spring my Local Section of The American Chemical Society (ACS) hosts a rigorous two part exam as part of the selection process for the The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) IChO is an annual...
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Spring Fever, Stoichiometry and Specific Heat
What am I doing to help kids achieve?How do I know when they are there?What is the evidence? From the looks of things, we are all in the same boat. Spring fever. I had two groups of students. Both are...
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Lab Report Feedback, Part 2: Using a Comment Bank to Provide Student Feedback...
I was sitting at my laptop marking up some labs and realized I had some students that kept making the same mistake as previous labs. So…this got me thinking. How can I get students to more carefully...
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Self-Healing Concrete
Recently, I came across an article about self-healing concrete on the ACS Central Science open source journal website. Typically we think that the wear and tear of automobiles on the roads causes...
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Tell Me a Story
Let’s get a coffee and you can tell me your story.Let me explain why I don’t have my homework.Our data might not look good, but wait till you hear what happened!Just as our lives and various...
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Not All Periodic Tables are the Same?
Upon sharing my array of apps with some future chemistry teachers, they asked why so many Periodic Tables? My response was “Well not all periodic tables are the same”, upon which was followed by...
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Coding in Chemistry
Computer coding has been getting a lot of attention with the Hour of Code movement and President Obama’s recent “Computer Science for All” initiative. Just like it is no longer solely the job of the...
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Catching a Wave, by Brian Greene
Brian Greene is not only one of the foremost theoretical physicists/cosmologists, but he also has a talent for explaining some of the most difficult and abstract concepts in physics to those outside of...
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Use Your Smartphone as an "Absorption Spectrophotometer"
A smartphone can be used in a remarkably simple and inexpensive way to teach your students about absorption spectroscopy and Beer’s Law. In short, light reflected off of colored construction paper is...
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A different way to look at heat and energy....
What am I doing to help kids achieve?How do I know when they are there?What is the evidence? Each year we work on specific heat of materials and the heat of fusion of ice. These are two labs that are...
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What do you do for AP Chemistry review?
It’s review season for AP courses! I have a love/hate relationship with the date of the AP Chemistry exam. On one hand, it’s SO early. On the other hand, because it’s the first exam, my students...
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Using the Talk Science Primer in a Chemistry Classroom
While attending a professional development session last year I was introduced to the Talk Science Primer, developed by the Inquiry Project and TERC. Although the research and sample...
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AACT GOVERNING Board Elections 2016
I wonder how many of the ChemEdX readers are also members of AACT? The American Association of Chemistry Teachers has been a long time coming and is in its second year of operation now. It is currently...
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Why I think I love Atomsmith...
What am I doing to help kids achieve?How do I know when they are there?What is the evidence? O.K...maybe "love" is a bit strong. But I am strongly enamored with "Atomsmith Classroom". Here is the...
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