The Importance of a Professional Learning Community
Ariel Serkin | Thu, 05/14/2020 - 17:37
Sometimes, your Professional Learning Community is not at your school, but rather with educators from around the world.
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JCE 97.05 May 2020 Issue Highlights
Mary Saecker | Wed, 05/13/2020 - 09:53
The May 2020 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online to subscribers. Topics featured in this issue include: understanding structures; digital information and web-based learning; exploring everyday chemistry; curriculum innovations; games for teaching; NMR spectroscopy; examining properties of organic liquids; biochemistry laboratories; analytical and physical chemistry laboratories; computational chemistry; innovative low-cost instruments; research on knowledge and skills for teachers and chemists; from the archives: hands-on chemistry at home.
Three Necessary Adjustments for Teaching During COVID-19
Josh Kenney | Mon, 05/11/2020 - 10:00
After making the switch from in-person to virtual chemistry learning in the wake of school closures due to COVID-19, teachers have continued to make adjustments. The author has found a few new strategies and made changes to his course in response to the needs of his students and the nature of online learning.
ACCT Cohorts
ACCT Admin | Sat, 05/09/2020 - 11:38
The ACCT project celebrates the teachers who have participated in and facilitated the ACCT professional development!
NGSNavigators
Stephanie O'Brien | Thu, 05/07/2020 - 13:51
Are you looking for a new podcast to enjoy on your way to or from work? NGS Navigators is a podcast that offers quality professional development to support teachers with NGSS content and strategies.
The exploding Pringles design challenge: Formative assessment with a bang!
Scott Balicki | Mon, 05/04/2020 - 20:13
The Exploding Pringles can design challenge is an open-ended formative assessment developed by the ACCT team, which tasks students with designing an explosion that produces the maximum boom within a Pringles container with a fixed volume.
Solution to Chemical Mystery #17: Bubble Buster!
Tom Kuntzleman | Wed, 04/29/2020 - 16:45
The solution to Chemical Mystery #17 is presented. Were you able to use your chemical knowledge to explain the results?
Structure-Property relationships thinking
ACCT Admin | Sun, 04/26/2020 - 13:28
Here you can read a description of the Structure-Property Relationships thread of the Chemical Thinking framework.
Students have answered the question, but what are they thinking?
Scott Balicki | Sun, 04/26/2020 - 10:57
As physical distancing continues and we persist in teaching our chemistry classes online, it behooves us as teachers to spend some time considering how we can purposefully observe and decipher the written work that our students submit.
Chemical Mystery #17: Bubble Buster!
Tom Kuntzleman | Fri, 04/24/2020 - 17:20
If you know your chemistry, you can figure out how the bubbles get busted!