Latest articles, blogs, and events from the chemical education community

household products on kitchen counter plus iPad with RSC Global Experiment website on the screen
Global Experiments
// Saturday, March 14, 2020 • Melissa Hemling
Like many others, my students and I are facing weeks of remote learning due to COVID-19. I am brainstorming ways to engage my on-level chemistry students online. Weeks of watching online lectures, taking notes, and completing practice problems will get old. I am nervous my students will quickly disengage.
Sharing Resources for those Moving to Online Classes - COVID 19
// Wednesday, March 11, 2020 • Deanna Cullen
As schools are closing their doors and moving to an online platform in hopes minimizing the spread of COVID-19, many instructors in our chemistry education community are scrambling to pull together resources and lessons that they can use over the coming weeks. Social media is buzzing as educators share their ideas and suggestions.
text: Reimagining the Chemical Volcano, sketch of volcano & pic of test tube with chemical reaction bubbling
Making a (big) eruption with chemistry!
// Wednesday, March 11, 2020 • Scott Balicki
When you think back to your first experience with a chemistry experiment, what do you imagine? More likely than not, a papier-mâché volcano spewing forth the products of a mixture of baking soda and vinegar (possibly dyed with red food coloring for effect ?) comes to mind.
particle image of a solution in a flask
DIY Particulate Models
// Monday, March 9, 2020 • Melissa Hemling
Particulate diagrams are all the rage in chemical education.
3 wells with solutions (red, olive green, light green) text: Colorful Copper Equilibrium
A Multi-Colored Equilibrium Experiment
// Thursday, March 5, 2020 • Tom Kuntzleman
I’d like to describe a very colorful system you can use to explore many facets of chemical equilibrium.
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Helping Students Show What They Know
// Tuesday, March 3, 2020 • Michael Farabaugh
AP Chemistry instructors Paul Price and Michael Farabaugh will share their experience in a 90-minute webinar, Helping Students Show What They Know – An AP Chemistry Review, on Wednesday, March 4th, 2020. They will share how they help students "show what they know" in preparation for the exam in May. 
BCCE 2020
BCCE 2020: Evidence-Based Instructional Practices: Flipped Classrooms and Inquiry-Based Teaching Strategies
// Sunday, February 23, 2020 • Scott Donnelly
What: Evidence-Based Instructional Practices: Flipped Classrooms and Inquiry-Based Teaching Strategies Symposium Organizer: Kathleen Carrigan (email: kcarriga@pcc.edu) Where: 2020 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education When: July 18-23, 2020 Where: Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR) Abstract Submission for Symposium: https://bcce2020.org/abstract-submissions/
Word Cloud from the Stahl & Hussenius article
Hidden Messages in Chemistry Assessments
// Monday, February 17, 2020 • Hannah Sevian
Recently, Michael Farabaugh offered some very nice chemistry exam question examples. I appreciated how he emphasized that questions can be written in ways that make it possible to learn how students think rather than just whether they know the correct answer or not.
text: What is Gamification?
What is Gamification in Education?
// Saturday, February 15, 2020 • Josh Kenney
In 2018 the video game industry grossed 131 billion dollars, and there’s no sign of it slowing down with 2025 projected to bring in $300 billion.1 World of Warcraft, released in 2004, continues to be one of the most popular and addictive video games.