Pringles design challenge
ACCT Admin | Fri, 04/10/2020 - 10:01
This is the formative assessment activity entitled "The Exploding Pringles Can Design Challenge" designed by the ACCT project.
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Chemical substances inventory (CSI) survey
ACCT Admin | Fri, 04/10/2020 - 10:01
The Chemical Substances Inventory (CSI) is a formative assessment designed to learn about students' understanding of chemical identity. The formative assessment was designed by the Sevian research group (as indicated by the star 
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Making a (big) eruption with chemistry!
Scott Balicki | Wed, 03/11/2020 - 16:44
As teachers, we can leverage fruitful discussions about chemical control with students to elicit more about students' initial ideas and ways of reasoning. From asking students to clarify their own thinking, we can identify students’ own productive ideas that we can capitalize on to advance their thinking.
Sustainable Grading Practices
Melissa Hemling | Mon, 12/16/2019 - 12:33
Teacher burnout - it is real. How can teacher's adopt more sustainable grading practices to improve their work-life balance?
AP Classroom: Leveraging the PPCs
Melissa Hemling | Sat, 09/07/2019 - 19:16
It is back-to-school time! I started school on September 3rd so I am just getting back into my school “groove.” On August 1st, College Board released its new AP Classroom platform (myap.collegeboard.org). While exploring this new online resource, I couldn’t help but reflect on how I teach AP Chemistry and what changes I will make in light of AP Classroom to ensure this year will be a great one!
Formative Assessment via Redox Reactions
Stephanie O'Brien | Wed, 04/24/2019 - 15:51
My district recently provided a professional development session focused on utilizing three dimensional formative assessments in the classroom. The ideas I learned in the session as well an an activity for students to engage in formative assessment are outlined.
Moles, Formative Assessment and Moving Forward....
Chad Husting | Sun, 03/05/2017 - 11:16
Formative assessment can be a double edged sword. It can be and often is extremely helpful. Some quick short three or four well worded questions at the beginning of a unit provides information about student abilities. A teacher can skip teaching information that kids already know or the teacher can discover concepts that he or she assumed students know but do not. Formative assessment about "Moles" can provide data that is hard to deal with. Can the students handle scientific notation? How well are students at basic math skills?
Ionic Covalent Compounds and Card Sorts
Chad Husting | Thu, 02/02/2017 - 19:10
Card sorts are a great way to achieve a number of classroom objectives. They can be used as a review activity or they can be done during the middle of a lesson as a type of formative assessment. Sorts can encourage students to work with other students or can even be used as a type of exit ticket. I decided to use the strategy about two thirds of the way through a unit on covalent and ionic compounds and lewis structures. I knew there were items we did not cover in the sort but I was curious to see how they would approach these unknown topics.
App Review - Classkick
Doug Ragan | Thu, 04/21/2016 - 23:00
As many teachers are preparing to teach online, we are revisiting posts from the ChemEd X archives like this one that might be of help. The author has updated this activity by adding notes specifically to help those teaching remotely. This post about Classkick was originally published April 22, 2016. The platform is now all web based and Doug has compiled a list of public assignments that you are free to modify for your own use.
Concept Mapping as a Review Tool
Shannon Bowen | Thu, 12/10/2015 - 10:29
It is the time of year that content exams loom large and student stress is high. A few years ago I decided to ditch the typical review packet for something else - an open ended, student led, collaborative concept mapping project and I am never going back to the old way!