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Nora Walsh shares some of her favorite FIRST WEEK of school activities for the chemistry classroom!
Ashley Green shares a variety of digital card sort activities!
Ordinary playing cards can be used in games where the cards model valence electrons in atoms. These games could provide players with a fun and active way to practice counting valence electrons in simple chemical structures.
Chem Cards is a game including 118 cards, one for each element. It is designed to familiarize students of all ages with chemical terminology so they grow comfortable with the topic and equate it to an exciting, team building experience.
We hope to see you at ChemEd 2023 in Guelph, Ontario!
With a little chemical investigation, you can figure out how Jet-Puffed's new color changing marshmallows work!
Chad Husting discusses one way to use ChatGPT in his chemistry classroom.
The shapes of plastic bottles can be used to represent orbitals. Using various connectors, a bit of packing tape, and a few other more specialized touches can produce large scale molecular models that feature orbitals, sigma bonds, and pi bonds.
Placing dry ice in limewater is a great demonstration to accompany discussions on a variety of chemical topics, including the impact of ocean acidification on marine organisms that depend upon the formation of CaCO3.
The candy "Toxic Waste" and "Pop Rocks" are fun ways to show changes in acid base indicators. There is also an easy way to test car exhaust with an indicator.