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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: "Solutions INB" over flasks of solutions
// Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Nora Walsh
This is a relatively short unit in my course and as a result, I only use two spreads for it. I have two fully developed spreads to share, with optional bonus material you could add on to the first and an alternative layout for the second that includes colligative properties.
// Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Nora Walsh
Every year, my students struggle with the concept of limiting reagents.
text: Reactions Interactive Notebook (preview image)
// Monday, January 2, 2023 Nora Walsh
Do we all have a unit at the end of the semester that seems to change in depth every year, based on how the rest of the semester has shaken out? In my course progression, that unit is Reactions.
text: Bonding INB, pic of one spread and formulas
// Monday, October 24, 2022 Nora Walsh
Hang on to your hats, folks! We are about to enter my longest notebook unit of the year: Bonding. This unit is massive with 6 two page spreads. Read on to see my discussion of pros and cons of splitting it into two units versus keeping it as one big unit.
text "Periodic Table Interactive Notebook" over periodic table
// Sunday, September 25, 2022 Nora Walsh
After an introduction to atomic structure, the next unit in my interactive notebook is on the Periodic Table. We explore the vocabulary and patterns on the periodic table, and examine how electrons tie into those patterns.