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JCE 92.04—April 2015 Issue Highlights

Mary Saecker | Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:08

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The April 2015 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available for subscribers at http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/92/4. This issue features articles on atmospheric and environmental chemistry. Also featured in this issue are: microfluidic devices; problem solving strategies; information literacy; kinetics & thermodynamics; investigations of gases and organic synthesis; outreach.

So You Think You Can Demo

Anonymous (not verified) | Tue, 03/31/2015 - 12:57

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“So You Think You Can Demo” is a fun and educational contest sponsored by ChemEd committee members to allow chemical educators to have a platform to share their best hands-on science demonstrations. We encourage all ChemEd 2015 attendees to submit a video showing off your most creative, informative and interesting chemistry demo. The deadline for submission of a demo video is April 30th.

Conversations about Chemical Education

Erica Posthuma | Sun, 03/22/2015 - 10:42

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This semester I get to work with one of my high school students as she investitgates what it takes to be a chemistry teacher. She wrote the following blog post to describe her project...

The Model So Far...

Erica Posthuma | Thu, 03/12/2015 - 21:28

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I started thinking about how integral the storytelling was to the curricular choices I made in my classroom. I realized that I had shared some of my experiences as a Modeler and a few of the activities we use in our classrooms, but I have never described the order of topics. So, this blog is titled “The Model So Far…” I hope it gives you an idea of the journey we take each year as the students uncover evidence and construct models along the way.

JCE 92.03—March 2015 Issue Highlights

Mary Saecker | Thu, 03/12/2015 - 11:43

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The March 2015 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online at http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/92/3. This issue features NMR spectroscopy; chemistry teaching from an international perspective; chemistry & history; learning to think and work like a chemist; introductory laboratory experiences & experiments; the chemistry of fingerprints.