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BCCE 2018 REGISTRATION is now OPEN
The Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) will be held at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana from July 29 through August 2, 2018. This is an excellent professional development opportunity for...
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March Madness with the Periodic Table
This past March, I ran a multi-day poll on Twitter that was designed to be a fun way to determine the “best” element on the periodic table. I’m sharing about the poll here on ChemEdX in case others...
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Using Flip Cards to Support Proportional Thinking
A solid grasp of proportional thinking is crucial to being able to solve all sorts of problems in chemistry as well as “real life” situations. While many students seem to intuitively understand that...
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Be Part of a Study of Three-Dimensional Assessments Developed by AAAS Project...
Consider helping the AAAS Project 2061 pilot their newly developed assessment tasks that measure students' ability to use the three dimensions outlined by the Next Generation Science Standards -...
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Get Your POGIL on This Summer
With the end of spring break comes the craziness of exam preparation and the final push through the academic year. It’s also a time to reflect on what pedagogical strategies have worked well for us and...
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The AP Chemistry Teacher Facebook Page
Over the last two years, the Official AP Chemistry Community forum on the College Board website has been largely, though not completely, displaced by the formation of a Facebook group called National...
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JCE 95.04 April 2018 Issue Highlights
Placing Chemistry into a World ContextThe April 2018 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online to subscribers. Topics featured in this issue include: service-learning, safety,...
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POGIL in the High School Chemistry Class: Objectives, Practices, and Outcomes
All too often teachers use POGIL activities as worksheets when the teacher is absent, busy work to review a topic, or handouts for homework. However, using the POGIL activities in this manner does not...
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Interactive-video experiments now available for Chemistry
What’s New? We have just created a handful of new chemistry activities that are based on interactive high-resolution video. These classroom-ready experiments have interactive tools so that students can...
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Incorporating Authentic Assessments in Chemistry
Recently, my district made a commitment to helping its teachers reflect and rethink their grading and assessment practices. One of the phrases I kept hearing throughout our staff professional...
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Using an Argument-Driven Inquiry framework for student exploration of gas laws
Based on some interactions here on ChemEd X and Twitter, I have been looking for ways to have students generate more questions, ideas, and investigation methods. Some of this is inspired by Argument...
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Argument Driven Inquiry and Heat of Solutions
What are we doing to help kids achieve?I have blogged about Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) previously. It has been a popular topic on ChemEd X lately. During my limited experience, I have found the...
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Especially JCE: April 2018
The theme of the April issue of the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE), is Placing Chemistry in a World Context. Environmental science, green chemistry, waste management and service learning are few...
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The Chemistry of Weight Loss
If you want to lose weight, you have to burn calories. Anyone who has gone on a diet knows this. But when someone loses weight, have you ever wondered where the lost mass goes?As chemists, we know that...
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Confessions of a Part-Time Modeler
Years ago I heard that a friend of mine had drunk the proverbial “kool-aid” and become a, gasp, Modeler. I had no idea what that meant. But, I was soon to find out. The date was September 2013, and I...
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The International Scholastic Journal of Science - Publishing the original...
I have taught at three different public schools in the United States (two in California and one in Washington state), and now three different international schools (two in Thailand, one in Romania) -...
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Types of Ionizing Radiation Lab and Simulation
Radioactivity is a topic in chemistry that can be difficult to teach if you are looking for a hands-on, data-driven approach. Safety and cost concerns often prevent students from having an...
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From JCE - A demonstration for challenging students' thinking on acid-base...
If you have access to the Journal of Chemical Education, I would implore you to read each month's issue. Even as a secondary classroom teacher, I like reading JCE because it snaps me out of the same...
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Titration: What do you prefer?
"What are we doing to help kids achieve?"It is the time of year for acid base chemistry. Acid bases usually means a demonstration or lab involving titrating. Titrating this year for me has an added...
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Self-Inflatable Valentine Balloons – Chemistry is Everywhere!
Recently, while attending the High School Teacher Day at the ACS National meeting in New Orleans, we were given Wack-A-Pack™ valentine balloons and encouraged to play with them. I am a huge fan of...
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