NSTA Activities
At NSTA (in beautiful San Antonio, Texas), this past week, I shared activities designed to explore three levels of representation AND provide formative assessment techniques to reveal student misconceptions. All of the activities shared have been featured in the Journal of Chemical Education or have been linked to research articles in JCE as supporting information.
iGasLaw
iGasLaw is a free iOS app that provides useful tools for studying properties of gases and gas laws.
JCE 90.03—March 2013 Issue Highlights
The March 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online [http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceda8/90/3]. This latest issue of JCE plus the content of all past issues, volumes 1 through 90, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc.
Stoichiometry Resources
Moles, mole ratios and stoichiometry have been frustrating topics for many of my chemistry students. The MOLE and Avogadro’s number get tangled up in other Chemistry jargon and students have stared at me like I am speaking another language. I have been around long enough to know this is a problem that many of us have faced. I have tried many ideas that have helped and I want to share a few.
ChemEd 2013 Conference
Sunday, July 28 to Thursday, August 1, 2013, the largest conference in North America focused on teaching high school and introductory chemistry will be hosted by the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Canada.
JCE 90.02—February 2013 Issue Highlights
The February 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available.
The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know has an Expiration Date
Samuel Arbesman, a mathematician and network scientist, uses the idea a half-life as an analogy for the changes in human knowledge that science brings. He discusses both the changing rate at which new science is done and the speed at which old results are replaced by newer ones. The analogy is far from perfect, but it emphasizes some critically important aspects of the processes of science.
Who am I and what is Inquiry?
Who is Sarah Kong and why is she starting a blog for Chem Ed X about Inquiry?
JCE 90.01—January 2013 Issue Highlights
Celebrating 90 Years as the Premier Chemical Education Journal
The January 2013 issue marks the start of the 90th volume of the Journal of Chemical Education. This latest issue plus the content of all past volumes, 1 through 89, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc.
ChemEd X Call for Contributions
Chemical Education Xchange is requesting chemistry educators as well as others working in the discipline to submit ideas, articles, activities and laboratories for publication.