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Welcome to the second installment of our (Re)Bootcamp series! In this post, three teachers share entry points into their larger pedagogical frameworks.  If you have wanted to try new approaches to teaching your content but feel overwhelmed by the idea of overhauling your entire curriculum, check out these "sample-size" 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.

On February 3, 2023, a train derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio.^1-2 Five of the train cars were carrying vinyl chloride (Figure 1), a compound that is mostly used to make PVC.

Flipped and blended classrooms integrate online instructional videos with traditional classroom activities. Sometimes, students watch videos for homework before engaging more deeply with the content during class. YouTube, which launched in 2005, is the most common video sharing app because teachers can create and upload custom instructional videos.

I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference of the Associated Chemistry Teachers of Texas (ACT2). I had  great time interacting with and learning from a whole bunch of wonderful chemical educators from the great state of Texas.

Introduction: Did you know that sand can be converted into a mixture of gases that spontaneously ignites in air? The procedures involved are relatively simple to perform, spectacular to observe, and relate to a rich assortment of chemical principles.

A proficient understanding of the periodic table is indispensable for students studying chemistry. Chemical properties, bonding, and reactions are routinely explained using the trends and patterns of the periodic table.

This year was so atypical for most educators; teaching in different formats, some face to face, some hybrid, some completely virtual. My school typically offers honors, a regular level, and a more supported level chemistry track for students. Due to the constraints of scheduling in a Covid climate, this past year students were all grouped in one class.

Bottles of soda are sealed under high pressures of CO₂, or P_CO2. This causes a substantial amount of CO₂ to dissolve into the beverage, giving the drink its fizziness. But what exactly is the pressure inside a bottle of soda?