HS-PS1-8 Atomic Theory

This year I’ve been working extra hard as my state, Indiana, has made a big switch: we adopted NGSS. I’m really excited about the change in how we are teaching chemistry, but adopting a whole new, very different style of standards has come with a lot of work to update and replace older activities.

I’m always looking for safer and cheaper options to perform chemical demonstrations, and I recently discovered a line of Elmer’s Glue products that support this pursuit. I shared three demonstrations using three Elmer glue products during the ChemEd X Demos Symposium at ChemEd 2023.

In 2019, the 150th anniversary of the creation of the first Periodic Table established by Dimitri Mendeleiev was commemorated.

Each year I am truly excited when my honors classes are ready to learn the Quantum Mechanical Model (QMM) because this lesson was a crucial reason why I decided to become a chemistry major when I was in high school. I have always been in love with the periodicity of the elements and how clean and organized it all seems.

After taking two courses with American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) I gained more insight and appreciation for evidence driven teaching. In the AMTA curriculum students are provided ionization energy values to help them construct Bohr diagrams and explain why multiple energy levels are required in the Bohr model.

​Atomic theory is a common topic throughout any introductory chemistry course.

This past July, I had the opportunity to present “Making Chemistry Visible With Magnets” at ChemEd 2019. Additionally, through the creativeness of some fellow attendees, particularly Katy Dornbos, Ariel Serkin, and Kristin

When the topic of Photoelectron Spectroscopy (PES) was added to the AP Chemistry curriculum during the 2013 redesign, I was apprehensive.