games/puzzles

These techniques seek to cultivate student interest through innovative challenges.

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text: IONIC FORMULA WORDLE
Ionic Formula Wordle
// Tuesday, March 1, 2022 • Melissa Hemling
I am always looking for little activities to fill those "dead spaces" during the school day like passing times, when some students finish early, or when there is not enough time before the bell to start the next activity.
Multicolored experiment
Solution to Chemical Mystery #19: Multi-colored Mixture
// Sunday, February 6, 2022 • Tom Kuntzleman
In Chemical Mystery #19,1 a yellow liquid is poured into a test tube, and the liquid turns red. When a white sold is added to the red liquid in the test tube, the liquid turns blue.
Color changes
Chemical Mystery #19: Multi-colored Mixture
// Monday, January 31, 2022 • Tom Kuntzleman
I was recently playing around in the lab and discovered a new experiment that is very easy to carry out, but also results in a variety of mysterious color changes. You can watch it in the video below.
text: "Collisions - Chemistry Learning Games for High School and College Students"
Collisions - Chemistry Learning Games for High-School and College Students with Jen Lee
// Monday, March 29, 2021 • Deanna Cullen
Collisions is a system of eight digital games, grounded in the rules of chemistry, that can be used to introduce, teach, and review more than 50 key concepts in your chemistry classroom. Collisions makes abstract concepts tangible by allowing students to visualize and manipulate the building blocks of matter, while providing a safe space to ma
adult using laptop with laundry basket nearby
AACT Virtual Summer Symposia
// Wednesday, July 1, 2020 • Kristen Drury
This spring many summer workshops and conferences were abruptly canceled and abandoned leaving my colleagues and me upset that we wouldn’t have a chance to meet or reunite to share our new ideas. With the sudden change to online instruction, we had so many new ideas to share, and so many questions we needed help on.
text: Bubble Bursting Water Chemistry
Chemical Mystery #17: Bubble Buster!
// Friday, April 24, 2020 • Tom Kuntzleman
With most of us stuck at home to combat the recent outbreak of COVID-19, I thought it might be a particularly good time to do some simple chemistry experiments that use only items found around the home (well, more like purchased at my local grocery store).
corner of computer keyboard and sticky note with text: Collisions Free
Free Collisions Game Access
// Tuesday, January 28, 2020 • Stephanie O'Brien
Are you looking for a way to incorporate gaming in your chemistry classroom? CollisionsTM has recently announced that their online gaming system is now free for educators!