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Helping or Hurting?
// Monday, June 8, 2015 • Sarah Kong
I am teaching this summer and it is especially exciting as I am piloting the labs I wrote this spring. We are using these labs exclusively and I am collecting student feedback for each lab to help in the editing, refining, and revision process.
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ELLs and Science Practices
// Friday, June 5, 2015 • Shelly Belleau
In a previous blog post, I shared my thoughts about the importance of science teachers (and all teachers, really) supporting their claims about lesson efficacy with evidence.
PBL
Why consider trying project based learning?
// Monday, June 1, 2015 • Tracy Schloemer
When I applied to college more than ten years ago, I wrote about my desire to be a political science major. Well, clearly that didn’t happen since I’m writing for ChemEdX. After my first organic chemistry course, I was hooked on the power that understanding the world through chemistry could provide.
Teacher Researcher
Teacher as Researcher
// Friday, May 8, 2015 • Shelly Belleau
In teaching we regularly change our class structures and routines and we implement new “interventions” in hopes of changing classroom dynamics or reaching more students.  I know that most of the time I make these decisions based upon anecdotal evidence, perhaps after glancing at
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Community Outreach
// Wednesday, May 6, 2015 • Deanna Cullen
I have been involved in several types of community outreach projects to promote science education and chemistry. One of the best was a biannual event I worked on with teachers from each elementary school in our district and from our middle school. It was a Science Extravaganza.
Harry Potter and the Elephant Toothpaste Potion
Harry Potter and the Elephant Toothpaste Potion
// Tuesday, April 28, 2015 • Tom Kuntzleman
The “Elephant Toothpaste” experiment is a very popular, albeit messy chemistry demonstration. To carry out this experiment, place a 250 mL graduated cylinder on something that you wouldn’t mind getting messy.