stoichiometry

At our November meeting, Easing your way into CED Unit 4: Low prep, high engagement activities,  we focused on low-prep, high-engagement strategies for AP Chemistry Unit 4 (Chemical Reactions), with an emphasis on helping students build conceptual understanding while preparing for AP-level rigor.

I enjoy playing UNO, a popular card game by Mattel, with my family. Students enjoy playing UNO with their friends during lunch or at the end of the day at my school. As a teacher, I have also experienced students having difficulty using dimensional analysis to solve stoichiometry problems. Students have issues with setting up and solving stoichiometry problems.

In 1848 Michael Faraday presented his Christmas Lectures entitled “Chemical History of a Candle” (Hammack and Decoste, 2016).

Stoichiometry often proves to be a challenging topic for high school chemistry students, primarily due to its abstract nature and the reliance on rote memorization for problem-solving techniques rather than a conceptual understanding.

This year, I tried something different with my course progression - instead of doing chemical quantities first and teaching students to convert from grams to mole and then move into stoichiometry, I began with mole to mole stoichiometry and BCA tables.

Every year, my students struggle with the concept of limiting reagents.

This is a procedure for a titration experiment suitable for use both at home and in supervised high school or first-year college laboratory settings. Other than an inexpensive pH meter, all materials should be easily available for students to purchase at local stores.

"Who Poisoned Veronica Merriweather?" is a fun application of formula stoichiometry for students who are placed in the role of a CSI lab sleuth helping to interpret chemical data to identify a murderer.

The inaugural ChemEd X Journal Club Meeting was held virtually on April 7, 2022 to discuss the article, "Curricular Materials on the Chemistry of Pottery, Including Thermodynamic Calculations for Redox Reactions in the 3-Stage Firing Process of Athenian Black- and Red-Figure Vases Produced from the Sixth-Fourth Centuries BCE" (Journal of Chemical