JCE Chemical Education Xchange

CHEMED 2013 CONFERENCE

Sunday, July 28 to Thursday, August 1, 2013, the largest conference in North America focused on teaching high school and introductory chemistry will be hosted by the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Canada.

JCE 90.02—February 2013 Issue Highlights

Cover of the February 2013 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education

The February 2013 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available. FInd this latest issue plus the content of all issues, volumes 1 through 90, at http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc.

Teaching Chemistry With a Whole New "App"titude. Intro Blog 1.0

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Doug Ragan and I have been a high school chemistry teacher for fourteen years. Three years ago, I was approached by my high school principal and the conversation went like this,

Principal: "You are one lucky guy."

Me: "Really, why?"

Small Research Projects in the Chemistry Classroom

You may have read Sarah Kong's recent blog post on inquiry on this site. I thought I would give a description of one way I incorporate inquiry learning into one of the chemistry courses I teach.

Who am I and what is Inquiry?

Who is Sarah Kong and why is she starting a blog for Chem Ed X about Inquiry?

JCE 90.01—January 2013 Issue Highlights

Cover of the January 2013 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education

Celebrating 90 Years as the Premier Chemical Education Journal

The January 2013 issue marks the start of the 90^th volume of the Journal of Chemical Education. This latest issue plus the content of all past volumes, 1 through 89, are available at http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc.

ChemEd X Call for Contributions

The JCE Chemical Education Xchange is requesting chemistry educators as well as others working in the discipline to submit ideas, articles, activities and laboratories for publication.

Energizer Lab

Students proceed through a prior knowledge activity, practice creating and using a voltaic cell and use of a model designed to simulate the particulate level activity within a voltaic cell. The teacher checks for student understanding at specific points as groups work together. A discussion follows to help clarify ideas.

The Martian Chronicles: New Discoveries on the Red Planet, by Burkhard Bilger Hal Harris
Hydrophobic vs. Hydrophilic, Polar vs. Non-polar Tom Kuntzleman
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives Hal Harris
Climate Change Denial in the Classroom Hal Harris

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