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Nora Walsh

FJ Reitz High School
ChemEd X Contributor, Author, Reviewer, Associate_Editor
ChemEd X Member since: February 2017

Nora Walsh teaches on-level, honors and AP Chemistry at FJ Reitz High School in Evansville, IN. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Emory University and a master's degree in secondary science education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She began teaching in Chattanooga, TN in 2004 and moved to Evansville in 2006 where she continues teaching at Reitz. She has been an AP Reader for the past 2 years, and has presented webinars for the American Association of Chemistry Teachers in the past. She is active on the AP Chemistry Teacher and National Chemistry Teacher Facebook groups, and enjoys sharing resources that other teachers find helpful. (You may be familiar with her document Write This, Not That on the AP Chemistry Exam). She also has a TikTok account that she uses for bite-size chemistry review (follow her @reitzchemistry). 

Posts

// Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Nora Walsh
Given the success of the first installment of Five for the First, I thought I would write a follow-up column highlighting five more activities I do during the first week of school! These are activities I have used to set up my classes for success.
After the Exam
// Monday, May 26, 2025 Nora Walsh
It’s mid-May, your dual credit and AP exams are done, but you still have weeks of school to go! What do you do? We’ve rounded up a few fun ideas that range in both content and type of activity.
// Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Nora Walsh
The AP Chemistry exam is given at the beginnig of May and its never too early to start reviewing!  In this post, I’ve collected a variety of resources to support your review time, divided into two sections: ideas for structuring your review and pointers from AP readers.
// Sunday, March 2, 2025 Nora Walsh
Many of us are tasked with planning or teaching chemical quantities and stoichiometry. To support your planning, help you refresh your stoichiometry unit, or provide extra resources to use in your classroom, I have collected some favorite posts on stoichiometry.