Bonding Interactive Notebook
Nora Walsh | Mon, 10/24/2022 - 13:29
Nora Walsh outlines the interactive notebook pages she uses for her unit on Bonding. All of the documents and foldables are available for download.
Bonding and Forces of Attraction
Generating explosive gases from sand
Tom Kuntzleman | Fri, 01/07/2022 - 12:16
Did you know that sand can be converted into a mixture of gases that spontaneously ignites in air? The procedures involved are relatively simple to perform, spectacular to observe, and relate to a rich assortment of chemical principles.
Microscale Plan to Break Bonds
Chad Husting | Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:58
There are some simple ways to break chemical bonds with microscale techniques.
Chemical Bonding and Naming with Nora Walsh
Deanna Cullen | Sun, 11/07/2021 - 15:52
In this ChemBasics Talk, Nora Walsh offers everything necessary to plan a unit on the topic of chemical bonding and naming including introductory and discovery activities, manipulative activities, practice problems, her favorite online teaching resources and more. Watch the recording and access resources she shared.
Reflections on Choice Boards in the Chemistry Classroom
Stephanie O'Brien | Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:01
Stephanie O'Brien shares lessons learned and strategies for utilizing choice boards in chemistry classroom.
Stamp of the Week #3
Michael Morgan | Wed, 04/07/2021 - 14:56
A Soviet era stamp featuring a quadruple bond.
Dust Off Your Molecule Kits!
Melissa Hemling | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 18:54
Many of us have molecular kits we only use once a year. Dust them off and find new lessons to use them in!
Some of my Favorite Things for VSEPR
Melissa Hemling | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 17:25
Melissa Hemling shares her favorite manipulatives along with cheap at-home alternatives to help students visualize VSEPR.
Measuring Surface Tension to Investigate Intermolecular Forces
Ben Meacham | Fri, 05/31/2019 - 22:38
Like most concepts in chemistry, intermolecular forces takes a bit of imagination and critical thinking to fully comprehend and apply when explaining a variety of situations. Though demonstrating the presence of these forces in a simple and explicit manner can easily be done, I wanted to change how I introduced IMFs a bit this year by focusing on a more data-to-concepts approach.
Especially JCE: April 2019
Erica Jacobsen | Mon, 04/15/2019 - 17:50
Erica Jacobsen shares highlights from the April 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.