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Chemistry Experiments with the Flame Tube
// Tuesday, May 26, 2020 • Tom Kuntzleman
A Flame Tube, also known as a Ruben’s Tube, is a classic physics experiment that provides a spectacular visual demonstration of sound waves.1 To make a Ruben’s Tube, a bunch of tiny holes are drilled in a line about 1 cm apart along one side of a steel pipe (Figure 1).
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NGSS during e-Learning Part 1
// Tuesday, May 26, 2020 • Stephanie O'Brien
During this time of e-Learning, teachers across the globe have shared ideas through various social medal platforms regarding topics such as student feedback, online lesson creation, instructional pedagogy, synchronous versus asynchronous teaching environments, students engagement support strategies, grading policies, online assessment, and best apps and
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Metabolic Marvels of Bear Hibernation- Part 4
// Tuesday, May 19, 2020 • Scott Donnelly
Welcome and thanks for reading! A year in the life of a bear is more or less equally divided into two parts- half the year it is eating (and eating, and eating) and the other half it is not eating because it is hibernating.
Kristen Drury, Stephanie O'Brien, Doug Ragan, Ariel Serkin, and Scott Milam hanging with ChemEdX's Jon Holmes at ChemEd2019 in Naperville, IL
The Importance of a Professional Learning Community
// Thursday, May 14, 2020 • Ariel Serkin
Shortly after I first started teaching in 2001, I realized I didn’t know how to teach. I knew my content, was skilled at presentations, and had the ability to form relationships with my students, but that wasn’t the same thing as teaching. Over the following years, I became a good history teacher.
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Three Necessary Adjustments for Teaching During COVID-19
// Monday, May 11, 2020 • Josh Kenney
Near the end of March, I wrote a post that detailed how I made the switch from in-person to virtual chemistry learning in the wake of school closures due to COVID-19 (Switching to Online Chemistry Instruction Amidst COVID-19). In that post, I presented
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The exploding Pringles design challenge: Formative assessment with a bang!
// Monday, May 4, 2020 • Scott Balicki
In Chemistry, students learn about combustion reactions and their applications, such as gasoline engines in cars. Students may be asked to imagine how to maximize the output of such a combustion reaction, and how this maximization point would be determined.