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text: Using Digital Interactive Notebooks - A ChemEd X Talk with Dr. Sarah English
Using Digital Interactive Notebooks with Dr. Sarah English
// Monday, July 18, 2022 • Deanna Cullen
Digital notebooking is a dynamic process that integrates different learning experiences to challenge and reinforce student understanding. This method actively engages students in a manner that encourages discussion and collaboration.
text: Integrating Interactive Notebooks - A ChemEd X Talk with Nora Walsh
Integrating Interactive Notebooks into Chemistry Courses with Nora Walsh
// Wednesday, July 13, 2022 • Deanna Cullen
Interactive notebooks (INB) are a useful tool to help students interact with course content, and show them the flow and evolution of a course - particularly in courses that may not have a textbook. On July 11, 2022, Nora Walsh shared tips and advice for integrating interactive notebooks into chemistry lessons.
collage of raspberries, colored solution in test tubes and inside of soup cans
Colourful Chemistry of Canning
// Friday, July 1, 2022 • Iain Smellie
Co-Authored by Iain A. Smellie*, Iain L. J. Patterson* *University of St Andrews, School of Chemistry, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9ST, United Kingdom
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ChemEd X 2022 Reader Survey
// Tuesday, June 14, 2022 • ChemEd X
Our ChemEd X team is looking for feedback from readers like you to assist in planning future content and professional development for our ChemEd X community. Our goal is to provide you with meaningful and quality content that best fits your needs. We hope you will be willing to complete the short survey we have prepared. We appreciate your time!
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Getting to Know Chad Husting
// Friday, June 10, 2022 • ChemEd X
Chad Husting is a self proclaimed science nerd who loves helping kids figure things out. He is a veteran high school teacher with a classroom in Ohio where he teaches honors and academic chemistry. He has been a Lead Contributor for ChemEd X since 2017.
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Getting to Know Dean Campbell and his Favorite Demo!
// Tuesday, May 31, 2022 • ChemEd X
Dean Campbell became a Lead Contributor for ChemEd X in 2021. With the hope of helping readers get to know him better, we asked Dean a series of questions. Check out his responses including a video showing his favorite demonstration.    Tell us about yourself.
Making Chemistry Visible with Doug Ragan
// Wednesday, April 20, 2022 • Deanna Cullen
Many chemistry teachers use models and diagrams to help students describe how matter behaves at the particle level.
ACCT Session 10 over ACCT logo
Session 10 at a glance
// Thursday, March 10, 2022 • ACCT Admin
This final ACCT session will offer opportunities for participants to work collaboratively as we use the LASW protocol to review each of the final formative assessments that were given to students. Time will be spent reflecting on the ACCT course and engaging in discussion of the course objectives and components
VisChem logo over text: High School Chemistry Institute
Apply to participate in the 2022 VisChem Institute
// Wednesday, February 16, 2022 • ChemEd X
VisChem is a National Science Foundation funded (Award #DRL-1908121) professional development program and study to determine how teachers’ use of dynamic, molecular-level visualizations in secondary chemistry classrooms affect affordances and constraints for student learning as well as students’ ideas about molecular-level behavior underpinning chemical