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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

INB page - PV=nRT
// Saturday, May 7, 2022 Nora Walsh
This post shares something very special – my favorite ever foldable. I designed it a few years ago to help students see the relationships that exist in the Combined Gas Law. This foldable is used differently than most – instead of starting with closed flaps, you start with all of the flaps OPEN. The effect is transformative.
Visualizing Stoichiometry INB page
// Thursday, April 28, 2022 Nora Walsh
If you have seen some of my previous webinars*, you probably have heard me mention that I use interactive notebooks in my chemistry I classes. Today, I’m going to share the first of many units: stoichiometry. Keep an eye out because gas laws and thermochemistry will be coming very soon!
text over game clue: STOICHIOMETRY SCAVENGER HUNT
// Thursday, March 10, 2022 Nora Walsh
Many of us find stoichiometry to be what I like to think of as “the grind” unit in our chemistry courses. It feels like it never ends and the students can get very burned out with what can feel like repetitive practice. To address this, I designed a stoichiometry scavenger hunt to inject some fun into my stoichiometry unit.
round shape with capital letters spelling ASPIRIN within a notebook
// Monday, January 31, 2022 Nora Walsh
As chemistry teachers, we often think about how we can make our subject “real world” for our students. We want them to be able to connect concepts to their lives, as we know that this increases not only their interest in the course, but also engages their prior knowledge and increases their long term retention of the concepts.