Lab Prep Tips
Amy Snyder | Thu, 05/11/2023 - 15:13
Experienced chemistry teachers offer tips for setting up labs!
laboratory design
A Student-Led Lab: The Carbonate Project
Erin Woulfe | Wed, 03/22/2023 - 09:43
This empowering activity provides students the opportunity to drive their own lab experience. It allows students to perform research, execute lab techniques and identify an unknown substance.
Standards Based Grading, Microscale Chemistry and Post Covid
Chad Husting | Tue, 10/19/2021 - 08:25
Navigating the waters through a year with multiple hurdles can be difficult but not impossible with microscale chemistry and standards based grading.
Video Pre-Labs Improve the Lab Experience
Josh Kenney | Sun, 10/17/2021 - 14:49
Teaching during COVID was challenging; however, a few positive results surprisingly emerged. For one, Josh Kenney filmed a small library of chemistry lab videos for use in virtual chemistry labs after his school switched to remote learning. At first, he wasn't sure if he would continue to use those videos when his district returned to in-person instruction until he discovered that they would make excellent pre-lab assignments.
Have the Lab Practical Early
Jerry Godbout | Sun, 08/02/2020 - 14:40
If you only have a few weeks of in-person labs this fall semester, consider this lab content reorganization.
Online Labs and the Question of the Relevance of the Lab Curriculum
Clarissa Sorens... | Thu, 07/16/2020 - 19:10
This is the first of three consecutive blogs about online labs. This first blog centers on the question, "Is chemistry laboratory coursework still relevant?" The second and third blogs discuss if the lab curricula we currently use is achieving our goals and if lab coursework can be effectively moved to an online platform.
Especially JCE: November 2019
Erica Jacobsen | Sun, 11/17/2019 - 19:41
Erica Jacobsen shares highlights from the November 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education of special interest to our ChemEd X community.
Separation and Choices
Chad Husting | Sun, 10/08/2017 - 07:07
I allowed my students to choose between two separation type laboratories. About two thirds of the class chose to separate the flavoring out of a grape of cherry soda. The rest of the students used paper chromatography to determine if red-40 dye was in a specific type of candy.
A Class Discussion on the Nature of Science
Kaleb Underwood | Wed, 09/13/2017 - 21:40
The first chapter of every middle and high school science textbook I have ever seen contains an oversimplified section on “the scientific method.” I wanted my students to gain an understanding of science by doing science, as best as we can replicate in a classroom, though inquiry labs, class discussions, and defending claims with evidence.
Exploring the Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment
Tom Kuntzleman | Tue, 05/09/2017 - 07:39
I think this experiment provides a fantastic vehicle to involve students of all ages in small, hands-on and exploratory research projects. Like many others, my students and I have investigated various aspects of this interesting fountain.