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

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A Strategy to Encourage Self-Reflection
// Monday, September 16, 2019 • E Posthuma
A few weeks ago I posted the tweet below (see figure ) about how my students were applying the law of conservation of mass. I gave @ChemixLab a shout out because I had created the images of the balances included in the questions using the Chemix platform.
Science Teacher Conference Opportunity in New York
// Sunday, September 15, 2019 • Stephanie O'Brien
This conference is going to be full of opportunities to grow in your understanding of everything NGSS chemistry related from sessions on phenomena, to growing your understanding of Science and Engineering Practices, to incorporating instruction by means of Cross–Cutting Concepts, to storylines and assessment. The conference is packed with multiple sessions on Saturday and Sunday tiered for different levels of NGSS comfort.
First Day Chemistry Engineering Activity
// Saturday, September 7, 2019 • Melissa Hemling
I just finished my first week of school, like many teachers in the Midwest. I work hard to get my Honors Chemistry students in a lab setting as soon as possible. It is difficult to find a perfect lab to do on the first or second day of school.
Critical Thinking vs. Critical Pedagogy
// Wednesday, September 4, 2019 • Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy…Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions…”(hooks, 1994, p.12).
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The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction
// Friday, August 30, 2019 • Hal Harris
There could not be a better time for an updated, revised edition of Eric Scerri’s “The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction”, because 2019 has been designated the
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Element of the Month - Iodine
// Thursday, August 29, 2019 • Stephen Wright
"In honor of the International Year of the Periodic Table this series of articles details the Element of the Month project developed by Stephen W. Wright (SWW), Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer Inc., and Marsha R.
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Giving the Syllabus a Lecture
// Tuesday, August 27, 2019 • Francisco Villa
Classes for the university I work at start in late August - typically one week after the community college we share a campus with begin. At about this time I do what most other faculty do and update, edit, revise, and occasionally rewrite my syllabus.
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Chemistry Magnets - Making Chemistry Visible
// Friday, August 16, 2019 • Doug Ragan
This past July, I had the opportunity to present “Making Chemistry Visible With Magnets” at ChemEd 2019. Additionally, through the creativeness of some fellow attendees, particularly Katy Dornbos, Ariel Serkin, and Kristin
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Features of Effective Flipped Classroom Videos
// Thursday, August 15, 2019 • Josh Kenney
Modern technology has triggered spectacular innovation in chemistry education. For instance, computer and internet accessibility has given rise to the flipped classroom.
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Gas Laws and Deflategate
// Thursday, August 15, 2019 • Ben Meacham
In a previous post on exploring new ways to incorporate authentic assessments, I referenced how a wonderful activity centered around the application of gas laws could help investigate the Deflategate controversy that consumed NFL news throughout the 2014-15 sea
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Stop Motion Animation Galvanic Cell Process
// Monday, August 12, 2019 • Kelly Burleson
When I was searching for activities to help my students understand and visualize the workings of a galvanic cell, I stumbled across the Target Inquiry activity called "The Energizer Lab" that has students consider the particulate, symbolic and macroscopic levels of an el