high school chemistry

JCE 8-16
Especially JCE: August 2016
// Wednesday, August 10, 2016 • Erica K. Jacobsen
Who inspires you? Do you have a “chem teaching rockstar” whose work fires you up as you enter another school year? Is there an author whose work you consistently turn to for his or her insights into the chemistry classroom? Or maybe memories of a past teacher of yours?
Computer screen with Classkick App open
App Review - Classkick
// Thursday, April 21, 2016 • Doug Ragan
Editor's Note: 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 activity was originally published April 22, 2016.
Especially JCE: April 2016
// Wednesday, April 13, 2016 • Erica K. Jacobsen
In a dramatic movie trailer voice: “The Boiling Point. Gone without a trace. Or were they? The scene… a mystery. Had they disappeared? Been broken up into unrecognizable pieces? Can our hero find the answer? Or will it be too late?”
Especially JCE: March 2016
// Thursday, March 10, 2016 • Erica K. Jacobsen
Is the cover of the March 2016 issue (see photo) of the Journal of Chemical Education a familiar scene? It is to me. I’ve spent many hours surrounded by shelves full of books and journals, in all of their papery goodness.
First Year AP Chemistry Teacher...Enough Said
// Monday, February 15, 2016 • Allison Tarvin
I’m a first year AP chemistry teacher. My emotions swing from fear of inadequacy to confusion in pacing to acute awareness of the number of years since college chemistry to desperation in grading 55 lab notebooks to exhaustion with inexperience. Honest truth: I'm studying. I'm studying a lot.
Especially JCE: February 2016
// Wednesday, February 10, 2016 • Erica K. Jacobsen
The extent of my involvement with football is to check scores to see who won the Super Bowl and to watch an online recap of the best commercials that aired during the game. Nonetheless, I was excited to read, appropriately enough, on Super Bowl Sunday, a football-focused activity in the February 2016 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.
JCE’s “Especially” Returns
// Friday, October 16, 2015 • Erica K. Jacobsen
Does the phrase “Especially for High School Teachers” ring a bell? Journal of Chemical Education readers may remember this feature from past issues. Could it be time for its return, with a twist?
"Single shot" soap boat
“Dear Soap Boat 2.0…”
// Friday, February 14, 2014 • Erica K. Jacobsen
A fan letter for a chemistry experiment? Well, yes. I read Tom Kuntzleman’s blog post “Soap Boat 2.0” over four months ago and immediately bookmarked it.