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New POGIL Activities for AP Chemistry with Laura Trout

// Monday, April 3, 2023 • Deanna Cullen

The new edition of “POGIL Activities for AP Chemistry” is on track to be released next winter. Laura Trout offered a sneak peak of the new activities and improvements that have been incorporated into the new edition in our March 27, 2023 ChemEd X Talk. She began with a brief description of what POGIL pedagogy is, and how it can improve your classroom.

Chemistry Celebrate Earth Week 2023

// Thursday, March 30, 2023 • Michelle DeWitt

The American Chemical Society would like to invite your class to celebrate "Chemists Celebrate Earth Week" April 16-22 with the theme "The Curious Chemistry of Amazing Algae". Algae are emerging as one of the most promising long-term, sustainable sources of food, feed, and other co-products.

collage of berries, flowers and purple colored solutions in 2 cans

Colourful Chemistry of Canning – Part 2

// Tuesday, October 18, 2022 • Iain Smellie

Co-Authored by Iain A. Smellie*, Iain L. J. Patterson* *University of St Andrews, School of Chemistry, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9ST, United Kingdom

Assessment Tools to Examine Students’ Reasoning with Multiple Representations of Bonding with Stacey Lowery Bretz

// Tuesday, October 4, 2022 • Deanna Cullen

Learning chemistry requires students to become fluent in the symbolic language of chemistry. Developing expertise requires that students move beyond manipulating equations and symbols to create explanations with particulate models of matter to explain their observations in the laboratory.

A Variation On An Age Old Adage—Absence Does Not Make the Mark Grow Longer!

// Tuesday, September 13, 2022 • Yvonne Clifford

“In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes” - Benjamin Franklin. To this quotation I would have to also add the certainty of a high number of absences during COVID times. Indeed, I cannot think of a day this year where all my students were present in class. Absence was at an all time high this year due to COVID-19,

Walking The Teacher Tightrope Between Providing Professional Grace and Rigor -- Evaluation In The New World Of COVID!

// Sunday, September 4, 2022 • Yvonne Clifford

“There is nothing more classy nor powerful than showing forgiveness and grace to someone.” As mentioned in my first similarly styled article, my senior students were rather severely negatively impacted by the pandemic through no fault of their own nor t

Motivating Students While In COVID Times: Striving “Above and Beyond” For Students And Teachers Alike

// Monday, August 22, 2022 • Yvonne Clifford

In the pre-COVID era, I observed that my students varied in terms of their range of ability. During COVID this has been observed seemingly multiple fold as there were many students with huge gaps in their science knowledge and lab skills – please see Part 1 of this series of articles,

The Trials and Tribulations of a Teacher During COVID Times!

// Thursday, August 18, 2022 • Yvonne Clifford

“Be flexible and have a great sense of humour” has always been my philosophy of life, especially so when teaching during COVID times. As many times as COVID seems to have mutated these past few years I feel I have also adapted and changed most everything I do.

Using Information from the 2022 AP Chemistry Reading to Improve Exam Performance

// Wednesday, August 10, 2022 • Michael Farabaugh

In June AP Chemistry readers either traveled to Salt Lake City or worked online from home to read and score student responses from the 2022 exam. I attended the in-person Reading and served as a table leader for a group of at-home readers. I enjoyed the opportunity to do the following.

Tom Kuntzleman aka Tommy Technetium

// Monday, July 25, 2022 • ChemEd X

Readers likely recognize Tom Kuntzleman from his numerous ChemEd X blog posts and Journal of Chemical Education articles as well as his dazzling demonstrations on his Tommy Technetium YouTube and TikTok channels! He is clearly a passionate educator! Let’s get to know Tom better in this interview...