Happy New Year from one of your overseas colleagues. Despite the amazing political changes, the language of chemistry continues bind us together, usually in the effort to make such a simple subject as chemistry understood! To do this, many of you have focused on the triangle developed by Alex Johnstone.
Last year I came across a report entitled Beyond Appearances: Students’ Misconceptions about Basic Chemical Ideas on the Royal Society of Chemistry’s website, and it has proven a wonderfully handy document to have around. The report is the work of Dr.
If you have read much of my past work here on ChemEd X, you know I am a big proponent of using Twitter for professional development. I owe many of my current teacher practices to my fellow chemistry teachers from around the world.
As a science teacher, few things beat a high-quality scientific explanation from a student. However, the frequency of such explanations often seems far and few between.
The genesis of this paper started with a request from a former student, Thomas Kuntzleman, now a professor of chemistry. He asked if I would consider submitting my thoughts about ‘big ideas’ in chemistry. In his email he attached a paper that I had written for the Journal of Chemical Education six years earlier 1.
