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Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade: Part 3
// Sunday, June 12, 2022 • Scott Donnelly
This is the third blog post of the seawater-oceanic shipping series. Like the previous two posts (first and second) this classroom activity:
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Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade- Part 2
// Monday, June 6, 2022 • Scott Donnelly
The first blog post of this seawater-oceanic shipping series deals with an introductory classroom activity that challenges students to predict how the composition and temperature of seawater influences a ship's buoyancy.
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Why every student should take chemistry: An astrophysicist’s perspective
// Thursday, June 2, 2022 • Thomas Cox
The global COVID-19 pandemic, year-round wildfires in the western US, destructive flooding in the eastern half of the US, prolonged and oppressive heat waves, another below average year for mountain snow packs in the Rocky and Sierra Nevada ranges– it is hard to not be aware of these events that affect many of our students and ourselves a
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Seawater Chemistry and Global Trade- Huh?
// Wednesday, June 1, 2022 • Scott Donnelly
Maritime shipping is the backbone of global commerce and trade. In 2020 a mind-boggling 1.9 billion metric tons (4,188,782,981,513 pounds) of cargo criss-crossed Earth's largest geographical features- the expansive, featureless oceans and seas (1).
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Applying "Make it Stick" to Chemistry Teaching
// Friday, May 27, 2022 • Thomas Shiland
There are many books that I wish I had read earlier in my career. At the top of the list is Make it Stick. The book is filled with research-based recommendations to improve the effectiveness of learning. I would like to share with you some ideas about how these recommendations might apply specifically to the teaching of chemistry.
Lessons from the Early College High School Model
// Thursday, May 19, 2022 • Josh Kenney
I teach chemistry at an early college high school (Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University)(link), where students dual enroll in college classes as they earn their high school diploma. There are numerous benefits for early college students.