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Nora Walsh shares some of her favorite FIRST WEEK of school activities for the chemistry classroom!

Ashley Green shares a variety of digital card sort activities!

Ordinary playing cards can be used in games where the cards model valence electrons in atoms. These games could provide players with a fun and active way to practice counting valence electrons in simple chemical structures.

Chem Cards is a game including 118 cards, one for each element. It is designed to familiarize students of all ages with chemical terminology so they grow comfortable with the topic and equate it to an exciting, team building experience. 

With a little chemical investigation, you can figure out how Jet-Puffed's new color changing marshmallows work!

Chad Husting discusses one way to use ChatGPT in his chemistry classroom. 

The shapes of plastic bottles can be used to represent orbitals. Using various connectors, a bit of packing tape, and a few other more specialized touches can produce large scale molecular models that feature orbitals, sigma bonds, and pi bonds.