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Good day, Gentle Readers: After a recent study of Intermolecular Forces, my AP Chemistry students experienced the joy of performing a microscale extraction of caffeine from tea.

FERPA allows me to record class meetings and share them with students registered in that section of the course, but that doesn't mean I should. At this point, most of us have done some remote teaching using Zoom or something similar.

Students can regularly find the results of the Rutherford gold foil experiment in their textbooks. They can find the expected results that would have supported J.J. Thomson's 'plum pudding' model of the atom as well as the true results of the experiment that led to the nuclear model of the atom.

This article is the follow-up to the Icy Brinicle of Death: A COOL Example of Freezing Point Depression. Specifically, this short post provides a sample calculation to determine the molality, m, of an icy brinicle, or "icy

Good day, Gentle Readers: I am old-school: I write with a fountain pen, I tie a bow tie, I listen to records, my car has manual transmission¹, I shoot film . . . But I’m not a dinosaur.

ChemEd X invites practitioners in the chemistry education community to share their experiences, knowledge and the resources they use in their classroom and laboratory. ChemEd X includes teachers and faculty from many diverse educational settings and who serve all students.

A recent publication in the Journal of Chemical Education caught my eye.¹ The article describes how lithium “coin” or “button” batteries can be used in the chemistry laboratory to teach students about stoichiometry.

When introducing acid-base theory, the concept of indicators and their pH color changes is usually discussed. To illustrate some color transitions to students, a classroom demonstration has been devised based on a memorable scene from Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins.

“What are we doing to help kids achieve?” Each year I say to myself that I am going to try to do more to present the particulate level to my students. Each year I feel as if I fall short. This year I tried to do something just a little different to help students visual the particulate level.

The mole concept is fundamental to chemistry but teachers and students have often struggled with the details. On September 9, 2021, Krystle Moos shared her unit covering the mole concept during our first one hour ChemBasics Talk.

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