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The fire story
The fire story
// Tuesday, August 11, 2020 • ACCT Admin
The fire story formative assessment is used to explore students' thinking about the question "what affects chemical change?" through a real-world problem. This formative assessment specifically probes students' understanding of energy and phase changes. There are several different explanations using different chemistry concepts that could
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Resources for Teaching Online in 2020
// Thursday, August 6, 2020 • Deanna Cullen
As we continue to make plans to teach during these uncertain times we have been compiling a list of both new and previously published ChemEd X posts and resources that will be useful to readers while teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Do you have an activity, strategy or idea to share with the community?
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Evaluating students' written work
// Wednesday, June 10, 2020 • ACCT Admin
Formative assessment is an important component of teaching as it enables teachers to enhance student learning. The written work that students produce on formative assessment tasks can be used to uncover student thinking and inform the decisions teachers make on how to support individual student learning. 
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Mt. St. Helens 40 Years Later: Getting More from Soda Volcano Demonstrations
// Sunday, May 17, 2020 • Dean Campbell
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. This eruption and associated landslide, one of the more significant in U.S. history, killed 57 people, removed 2.5km3 of the mountain (enough to fill almost a million Olympic swimming pools), and decreased its height by nearly 400m.
ACCT Cohorts
// Saturday, May 9, 2020 • ACCT Admin
The ACCT project celebrates the teachers who have participated in and facilitated the ACCT professional development. Cohort teachers participate in 12 workshops throughout the school year, with homework in between. The professional development is led by peer teachers who have completed the ACCT program in a previous year.