The Trials and Tribulations of a Teacher During COVID Times!
Yvonne Clifford | Thu, 08/18/2022 - 07:34
Yvonne Clifford shares tips and ideas for making your high school chemistry course both interesting and rigorous.
Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment
A Classroom View of Using Interactive Notebook Pages
Nora Walsh | Wed, 07/20/2022 - 13:32
Nora Walsh shares an overview of how she delivers content for her interactive notebooks during class. She includes a few video clips from her classroom showing a variety of ways to have students fill in their INB pages.
Integrating Interactive Notebooks into Chemistry Courses with Nora Walsh
Deanna Cullen | Wed, 07/13/2022 - 13:16
On July 11, 2022, Nora Walsh shared tips and advice for integrating interactive notebooks into chemistry lessons. In this ChemEd X Talk she spoke on everything from organizing your classroom for notebooking to how to plan layouts, general and specific ideas for input and output, and some ideas on grading/scoring interactive notebooks. View a recording of Nora's presentation and access materials here.
Scientific Reasoning Interactive Notebook Unit
Nora Walsh | Thu, 07/07/2022 - 09:23
Nora Walsh outlines the interactive notebook pages she uses for her first unit of the school year: Scientific Reasoning. All of the documents and foldables are available for download.
Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade: Part 4
Scott Donnelly | Wed, 06/22/2022 - 14:32
Continuation of the practical application of chemistry to seemingly something unrelated- global maritime trade. In this classroom activity students predict the buoyancy (and hence stability) of a merchant cargo ship based on interpretation of seawater surface salinity values. Like in the first three posts, the question types are conceptual.
Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade: Part 3
Scott Donnelly | Sun, 06/12/2022 - 15:36
This is the third post in a series dealing with seawater chemistry and global maritime trade. This classroom activity introduces the concept of salinity and tasks students to predict the range of salinities in certain regions of the ocean (coastal and open water, all four hemispheres, high and lower latitudes). Enjoy...
Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade- Part 2
Scott Donnelly | Mon, 06/06/2022 - 20:07
This is the second blog post describing a classroom activity relating seawater chemistry to oceanic shipping. Included are questions that challenge students to apply conclusions drawn from observations to making predictions.
Using Interactive Notebooks in Chemistry - Stoichiometry
Nora Walsh | Thu, 04/28/2022 - 09:01
Nora Walsh has been using interactive notebooks for some time. Here she outlines her stoichiometry unit and explains how she uses the interactive notebooks with her students.
Exploring The “Two-Faced” Thionin Reaction
Tom Kuntzleman | Tue, 04/19/2022 - 11:44
The "Two-Faced" thionin reaction involves causing a purple solution to fade to colorless by shining light on the solution. I wondered if it could be demonstrated the color of light that caused this transition.
Making Science Come Alive: Teaching for Engagement and Deep Learning
Patrick Brown | Thu, 09/16/2021 - 19:41
A primary goal of modern education is to prepare students for a globally competitive society. Importantly we must ask questions such as, “who is doing the hard intellectual work in the classroom?” and "what does doing hard intellectual work look like?"