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Nuts & Bolts | March 2015 Getting to Know What Students Know
How do you gauge whether students are learning what you intend for them to learn? This article, the third installment in a series of articles, offers ideas from an experienced teacher.
Nuts & Bolts | November 2016 Using Color in Lectures to Aid Student Learning
Using color-based learning can lead to better visualization of chemistry concepts and chemistry problems. This articles explains the reasoning behind the technique, and provides examples of how to adopt this tool in your classroom.
Nuts & Bolts | November 2015 Five Reasons to Use Games to Teach Students
Using games in the classroom is a great way to introduce topics and to create a fun learning environment.
Editorial | November 2015 Bringing Technology into the Chemistry Classroom
Chemistry Solutions editor Emily Bones explains why more and more, technology is a chemistry teacher's greatest tool.
Classroom Commentary | November 2014 Access to Opportunity: Limitations to Equity in Science Education
Access to quality science education varies greatly for students across the nation, creating gaps that restrict options for many students in postsecondary education and careers. Commitment to quality science education, supported by creative, collaborative efforts with community partners, is essential to narrow these access gaps for the good of our students and our nation.
Tech Tips | March 2015 Energy Foundations for High School Chemistry
Energy is a hard-to-define concept that proves difficult for students to understand and hard for teachers to teach. This article introduces readers to a website that provides a number of resources to help teach the difficult concepts.
Classroom Commentary | March 2015 Chromebook Chemistry
Read about a chemistry teacher's transition from a traditional teaching model to a technology-based model using Chromebooks as learning tools for every student.
Nuts & Bolts | November 2014 Demonstrations and Good Pedagogy
Given recent accidents involving methanol, are traditional, teacher-performed, passive-student demonstrations best?
Nuts & Bolts | September 2014 Standards Based Grading in the Middle School Chemistry Classroom
The purpose of grading is to give feedback about learning, but the traditional point-based system fails to do so. Standards-based grading is an alternative grading system that focuses on student understanding rather than a letter grade.
Nuts & Bolts | September 2014 Formative Assessment—A Powerful, Quick Tool in the Classroom
Formative assessment methods can be a quick, topic-specific tool that teachers can use to discover students readiness for a topic. Formative assessment up-front can make a unit run smoother. These assessments do not have to be difficult to implement, and you will be glad you did it in the long run.
Tech Tips | September 2014 ChemEd X: Online Chemistry Teacher Community
An associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Education, Deanna Cullen, introduces ChemEd X.
Editorial | September 2014 A History of Chemistry Education and ACS’s Role To Support It
ACS Board of Directors Member George Bodner traces the history of chemical education leading up to the formation of AACT, emphasizing that ACS has supported chemistry education since the 1870s.
Classroom Commentary | September 2014 Teaching Science in Elementary School
Elementary school teachers face challenges because of resources and testing requirements. This article features Patti Burns who teaches in a struggling city school, Lauren Schultz who teaches in an affluent school, and Allison Granish-Lee who teaches in a small school.
Classroom Commentary | September 2014 Getting Started
How do you plan to teach a new course or a course new to you? A teacher with 40+ years of experience provides some advice to map out the year, taking into account roadblocks you may experience along the way.
In My Element | March 2015 As Long As I Can Remember
A chemist became a high school chemistry teacher after multiple layoffs from reserach positions. The stability and inspiration she experiences in the classroom keeps her coming back each day.
In My Element | May 2016 Finding a New Element
A teacher describes her transition from teaching chemistry in a university to teaching in a high school setting. Learn how she adjusted her approach to teaching, and discovered a new respect for secondary teachers.
In My Element | November 2015 Teaching Chemistry: A Calling
Teaching chemistry can be more than a job, it can be a vocation; work that one is called to do. Here's how I answered that call.
In My Element | September 2016 Lessons from Teachers
A teacher's educational methods and strategies are developed from many sources over the course their career. This article addresses five essential lessons the author learned from other teachers.
In My Element | May 2015 Part Designer, Part Chemist, Part Teacher
The creator of Compound Interest shares his inspiration for his infographics and reveals how he balances his website with full-time teaching.
Resource Feature | May 2015 Water Sustainability: A Video Project and More
Find out how an old and unsuccessful report on the unique properties of water evolved into a meaningful, collaborative, and rich unit on water sustainability.
Simulation | November 2016 Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions
In the November 2016 simulation, students will evaluate the energy changes in an endothermic and an exothermic chemical reaction. Students will have the opportunity to compare how energy is absorbed and released in each reaction, and will make a connection between the standard energy diagrams associated with each reaction type.
Resource Feature | September 2016 The Chemistry of Cars: An Adventure in Resource Creation
Learn about the exciting Chemistry of Cars project, and the content writing team responsible for creating 19 new amazing classroom resources!
Simulation | September 2016 Ionic & Covalent Bonding
In the September 2016 simulation, students investigate both ionic and covalent bonding. Students will have the opportunity to interact with many possible combinations of atoms and will be tasked with determining the type of bond and the number of atom needed to form each. Students will become familiar with the molecular formula, as well as the naming system for each type of bond and geometric shape, when applicable.
Nuts & Bolts | May 2016 Managing Chemical Wastes in the High School Lab
Need a quick reference on chemical disposal? This article provides a solid starting point to determine proper disposal methods for high school lab waste.
Simulation | May 2016 Periodic Trends: Electron Affinity, Atomic Radius & Ionic Radius
The May 2016 simulation is a follow-up to the March 2016 simulation. Students will focus their investigation on the electron affinity of an atom. Through the use of this simulation students will have the opportunity to examine the formation of an anion as well as compare the atomic radius of a neutral atom to the ionic radius of its anion.