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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Graph of the Week
Graph of the Week
// Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Deanna Cullen
Helping students to interpret graphs and analyze them is an important for many reasons. Spending time training students to do just that will help them to become critical thinkers.
Chem13 News
Happiness is a Chem13 News magazine in my mailbox!
// Monday, August 24, 2015 • Yvonne Clifford
Chem13 News has been an integral part of my teaching bag of tricks for (I hate to admit it) over 20 years! It is something I truly look forward to arriving in my mailbox each month.
New PBS Series: The Mystery of Matter
// Thursday, August 20, 2015 • E Posthuma
PBS has a wonderful new mini-series titled, "The Mystery of Matter:  Search for the Elements".  At the time of this post, the series is freely available to stream through your local PBS station.
JumpRope
Jumprope - Making Grades Irrelevant
// Monday, August 10, 2015 • E Posthuma
Earlier in the summer, I was shopping around for a standards-based gradebook. As the lone teacher at my school venturing into this unchartered territory, I did what any responsible techie teacher would do.  I turned to the twitterverse for suggestions. I quickly identified the two most recommended platforms.
Rust
Rust
// Friday, July 31, 2015 • Scott Robowski
A great book for summer reading is "Rust: the longest war". Cars rusting! Bridges collapsing! Rust, and corrosion in general, is probably the most important topic that is not on most people's radar. This is definitely something people should be paying more attention to.
"All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
// Tuesday, July 28, 2015 • Hal Harris
This book is not about chemistry, and it probably is the most "literary" book that I have written about in these pages.  It is a beautiful story about the lives of a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, who escapes during the Nazi occupation of France with her father, the master locksmith of the Paris Museum of Natural History, to St.
AMTA
AMTA
// Wednesday, July 8, 2015 • E Posthuma
The American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) website is the official source for information on Modeling InstructionTM (MI).  Whether you are an experienced Modeler or simply interested in learning more about MI, I encourage you to visit the newly redesigned site and check out the availabl
KWIPPED
KWIPPED
// Tuesday, June 9, 2015 • Amanda Taylor
KWIPPED is a highly efficient, no-cost resource for chemistry teachers looking to rent equipment for projects. If you need to source equipment that is too expensive to buy, KWIPPED.com is a great way to find short or long-term rentals that will fit your budget. 
Project Exodus
// Monday, June 1, 2015 • Hal Harris
NASA’s "One Year Mission", which seeks to make physiological comparisons between astronaut Scott Kelly and his twin, former astronaut Mark Kelly, has provided impetus for more speculation about human exploration of Mars.