Picks

ChemEd X contributors and staff members are continually coming across items of interest that they feel others may wish to know about. Picks include, but need not be limited to, books, magazines, journals, articles, apps—most anything that has a link to it can qualify.

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Megan Lee Studios
Great Science Geek Gear
// Monday, July 24, 2017 • Chad Husting
     Let's face it. Science teachers love to geek out with nerdy science wear (See "Nerdy Science Shirts" if you do not believe me). It is difficult not to.
Screenshot of simulation
Chemical Thinking Interactives
// Tuesday, July 4, 2017 • Kaleb Underwood
As part of a two-week Chemistry Modeling Workshop™ in Houston, TX, I had the opportunity to read the
Making Sense of Climate Change Denial
Resource to Help You Combat Climate Science Denial
// Saturday, June 10, 2017 • Tom Kuntzleman
Are you are concerned about recent positions taken on climate change by political leadership in the United States? Do you agree with 97% of climate scientists who are convinced that human-caused climate change is an immediate, serious problem for our planet?
A Review of "A Global Warming Primer"
// Thursday, May 25, 2017 • Hal Harris
Lots of educational research shows that the most effective learning occurs when the teacher and learner are both engaged, and communication occurs in both directions. Unfortunately, the most widely-used educational practice involves a monologue, wherein a single speaker provides information to an audience of passive listeners.
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Simulation from Wolfram
A replacement Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Simulation
// Friday, April 21, 2017 • LowellThomson
Do you ever have that Go-To demonstration or website for an activity that you really value? You've been using it for a few years, tweaked it to make it better - only to send your students there one year and have the activity fall flat on its face because the website is no longer available? That almost happened to me this year.
Action Research and Assessment
// Thursday, April 6, 2017 • Chad Husting
First, a word of caution...this pick is the result of a four year messy journey and a 17 page paper (that I helped author) about the struggles of trying to figure out how to teach.
Screen shot of app description on iTunes store
Chemical Formula Challenge
// Thursday, March 23, 2017 • Doug Ragan
With the start of the third trimester, it was time to reintroduce to my new students how to properly write chemical formulas with those polyatomic ions that they had become familiar with fourteen weeks ago during the first trimester.
10 Percent Happier
// Sunday, March 12, 2017 • Chad Husting
     If this is a site all about chemistry teaching, what in the world does a book called "10% Happier" have to do with anything? Let me explain....I'll try the short, condensed, one page executive summary.