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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

text: "Planning a Bonding Unit with resources from ChemEd X" over woman writing at desk
// Monday, November 25, 2024 Nora Walsh
If it's time for you to do some planning for a unit on bonding and/or nomenclature, this post if for you. To help with the planning of this unit, I have pulled together a list of posts to provide a bonding and nomenclature springboard. There is much more that can be found, but think of this as a really good starting point.
Electrochemistry Unit Interactive Notebook for AP Chemistry preview image
// Sunday, April 14, 2024 Nora Walsh
In this post, I’m sharing the materials I created for an electrochemistry mini-unit that I used in my AP Chemistry interactive notebook. It’s important to note that you do not need to do interactive notebooking with your students to find some or all of these materials useful. I have included the following:
"Quick Lab on Mass vs Moles" preview image includes 3 test tubes in rack with title
// Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Nora Walsh
This year, I tried something different with my course progression - instead of doing chemical quantities first and teaching students to convert from grams to mole and then move into stoichiometry, I began with mole to mole stoichiometry and BCA tables.
text: "Personalizing Resources" with 3 molecular models - preview image
// Friday, January 5, 2024 Nora Walsh
Sometimes we have a topic that needs a refresh, and I hope when you’re searching for fresh ideas those searches lead you to ChemEd X! What I love doing is taking an activity that is really great, and using it in my own way with a personal twist.
Nuclear Review Puzzles preview image with ChemEd X logo
// Monday, December 4, 2023 Nora Walsh
I recently wrote about using Chat GPT to help with finding phenomena for writing a test (see Using AI to Source Phenomena). The success of that experience led me to start another session with Chat GPT when I was designing an escape room component.