Celebrating National Chemistry Week 2013—Energy: Now and Forever
The October 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available. This latest issue of JCE plus the content of all past issues, volumes 1 through 90, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc.
Cover: Celebrating National Chemistry Week 2013—Energy: Now and Forever
National Chemistry Week is a community-based annual event that unites ACS local sections, businesses, schools, and individuals in communicating the value of chemistry in our everyday life. This year, National Chemistry Week is being celebrated October 20–26, 2013, and the theme, Energy—Now and Forever, explores chemistry and energy with a focus on sustainable resources.
Energy
Articles in this issue with energy-related content include:
Making the 2013 National Chemistry Week Theme a Personal Matter by Norbert J. Pienta
Involving Students in a Collaborative Project To Help Discover Inexpensive, Stable Materials for Solar Photoelectrolysis by Paige N. Anunson, Gates R. Winkler, Jay R. Winkler, Bruce A. Parkinson, and Jennifer D. Schuttlefield Christus
An Open-Ended Project: Building a High Performance, yet Simple, Household Battery by Ping Y. Furlan, Thomas Krupa, Humza Naqiv, and Kyle Anderson
A Simple Photocell To Demonstrate Solar Energy Using Benign Household Ingredients by York R. Smith, Eric Crone, and Vaidyanathan (Ravi) Subramanian
Synthesis and Determination of Biodiesel: An Experiment for High School Chemistry Laboratory by Jun Yang, Chunli Xu, Baoxin Li, Guijia Ren, and Lu Wang
In addition, a selection of energy-related JCE resources from past issues—on batteries, biofuels, fuel cells, future fuels, nuclear energy, and solar energy—can be found at: http://pubs.acs.org/page/jceda8/ncw2013.html.
Activities to Promote Interest in Chemistry
Constructing an Annotated Periodic Table Created with Interlocking Building Blocks: A National Chemistry Week Outreach Activity for All Ages by Thomas S. Kuntzleman, Kristen N. Rohrer, Bruce W. Baldwin, Jennifer Kingsley, Charles L. Schaerer, Deborah K. Sayers, and Vivian B. West
Promoting Student Interest in Chemical Concepts by Implementing Creative Learning Activities in a Chemistry in Society Course for Nonscience Majors by Stephanie A. Brouet and Amber M. Hupp
Easy Demonstration of the Marangoni Effect by Prolonged and Directional Motion: “Soap Boat 2.0” by Charles Renney, Ashley Brewer, and Tiddo Jonathan Mooibroek
Connecting Resources for Tertiary Chemical Education with Scientists and Students in Developing Countries by Ross D. Jansen-van Vuuren, Malcolm S. Buchanan, and Ross H. McKenzie
Fast and Attractive Chemical Education: A Chemical Competition for High School Students in the Czech Republic by Pavel Řezanka, Ondřej Šimůnek, Markéta Zajícová, Luděk Míka, Jan Bartoň, and Michal Řezanka
Medical Mycology and the Chemistry Classroom: Germinating Student Interest in Organic Chemistry by Joseph M. Bliss and Christopher W. Reid
Posters Highlighting Chemical Information and History
Offering QR-Code Access to Information on Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, 1901–2011 by Vasco D. B. Bonifácio
An In-Pharm-ative Educational Poster Anthology Highlighting the Therapeutic Agents That Chronicle Our Medicinal History by Elizabeth A. Ilardi, Edon Vitaku, and Jon T. Njardarson
Meaningful Science Writing
Argument-Driven Inquiry: Using the Laboratory To Improve Undergraduates’ Science Writing Skills through Meaningful Science Writing, Peer-Review, and Revision by Joi Phelps Walker and Victor Sampson
Implementing a Grant Proposal Writing Exercise in Undergraduate Science Courses To Incorporate Real-World Applications and Critical Analysis of Current Literature by Kathryn E. Cole, Maki Inada, Andrew M. Smith, and Michael P. Haaf
Demystifying Spectroscopy
Demonstration of Atomic Emission from Exploding Hydrogen Balloons for (Almost) Everybody by Francesco Caruso, Giulia Gelardi, Bernhard Elsener, and Robert J. Flatt
Demystifying Spectroscopy with Secondary Students: Designing and Using a Custom-Built Spectrometer by James M. Quagliano and Christopher A. Marks
Assessment
Adaptation of an Instrument for Measuring the Cognitive Complexity of Organic Chemistry Exam Items by Jeffrey R. Raker, Jaclyn M. Trate, Thomas A. Holme, and Kristen Murphy
Development and Application of a Scoring Rubric for Evaluating Students’ Experimental Skills in Organic Chemistry: An Instructional Guide for Teaching Assistants by Hui-Jung Chen, Jui-Lin She, Chin-Cheng Chou, Yeun-Min Tsai, and Mei-Hung Chiu
Polytomous versus Dichotomous Scoring on Multiple-Choice Examinations: Development of a Rubric for Rating Partial Credit by Megan L. Grunert, Jeffrey R. Raker, Kristen L. Murphy, and Thomas A. Holme
Teaching Assistants
Development and Application of a Scoring Rubric for Evaluating Students’ Experimental Skills in Organic Chemistry: An Instructional Guide for Teaching Assistants by Hui-Jung Chen, Jui-Lin She, Chin-Cheng Chou, Yeun-Min Tsai, and Mei-Hung Chiu
Factors Contributing to the Development of Graduate Teaching Assistant Self-Image by Santiago Sandi-Urena and Todd Gatlin
Synthesis of Fluorescent Materials
Synthesis of a Fluorescent Conjugated Polymer in the Undergraduate Organic Teaching Laboratory by Teresa Mako and Mindy Levine
Microwave Synthesis of a Fluorescent Ruby Powder by Géraldine Leyral, Laurent Bernaud, Alain Manteghetti, and Jean-Sébastien Filhol
Organic & Biochemical Labs
Identification of an Alcohol with 13C NMR Spectroscopy by Paul H. Chamberlain
Green Oxidative Homocoupling of 1-Methylimidazole by C. Eric Ballard
Batch and Flow Synthesis of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from Fructose as a Bioplatform Intermediate: An Experiment for the Organic or Analytical Laboratory by Svilen P. Simeonov and Carlos A. M. Afonso
Teaching Upper-Division Biochemistry Students the Role of Noncovalent Interactions and Ligand Structure in DNA Binding by Kristen C. Roy
Biotransformation of Phenazine 5,10-Dioxides under Hypoxic Conditions as an Example of Activation of Anticancer Prodrug: An Interdisciplinary Experiment for Biochemistry or Organic Chemistry by María Laura Lavaggi, Mauricio Cabrera, Laura Celano, Leonor Thomson, Hugo Cerecetto, and Mercedes González
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