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 April 2006
Vol. 83 No. 4

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Let's Go for an A in Lab519
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Students Remember What They Do521
Diana S. Mason
Reports from Other Journals
Research Advances: In a Crisis, Creating DNA Vaccine Could Help Save Lives, Slow Spread of "Bird Flu"; Gold Nanoparticles, Radiation Combo May Slow Alzheimers; New "Self-Exploding" Microcapsules Could Take Sting out of Drug Delivery 522
Angela G. King
Award Address
New Approaches to Chemistry Teaching. 2005 George C. Pimentel Award528
J. N. Spencer
Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
CONFCHEM: Division of Chemical Education Online Conference536
Morton Z. Hoffman
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Barium Hydroxide Octahydrate539
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements541
The Information Page544
Letters
A Consideration of the Potassium–Argon Radiometric Method for Dating Minerals 545
Karen E. Bartelt
Letters
A Consideration of the Potassium–Argon Radiometric Method for Dating Minerals546
William A. Howard
Letters
A Consideration of the Potassium–Argon Radiometric Method for Dating Minerals547
Reed A. Howald
Letters
A Consideration of the Potassium–Argon Radiometric Method for Dating Minerals547
Richard Firestone
Letters
Getting the Lead Out548
Roy W. Clark
Corrections
Correction to "A Generalized Deduction of the Ideal-Solution Model" (J. Chem. Educ. 2006, 83, 145–149)548
Book and Media Reviews
Microbe: Are We Ready for the Next Plague? (Alan P. Zelicoff and Michael Bellomo)549
Jack K. Steehler
Book and Media Reviews
The Essential Exponential: For the Future of Our Planet (Albert A. Bartlett)549
Kevin M. Dunn
Advertising in This Issue552
Out of the Editor's Basket553

 Chemistry for Everyone
The Periodic Table: Contest and Exhibition557
Aurora Silva, M. Fátima Barroso, Olga Freitas, Salomé Teixeira, Simone Morais, and Cristina Delerue-Matos
Facing the Music: How Original Was Borodin's Chemistry?561
Michael D. Gordin
From Justus von Liebig to Charles W. Eliot: The Establishment of Laboratory Work in U.S. High Schools and Colleges566
Keith Sheppard and Gail Horowitz
Safety Tips
Teaching Chemistry Lab Safety through Comics571
Pasquale Di Raddo
View from My Classroom
A Diaper a Day and What's Going on with Gaviscon?: Two Lab Activities Focusing on Chemical Bonding Concepts574
Brett Criswell
JCE Classroom Activity
Ions or Molecules? Polymer Gels Can Tell576A
Brett Criswell

 In The Classroom
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
The Ultrasonic Soda Fountain: A Dramatic Demonstration of Gas Solubility in Aqueous Solutions577
John E. Baur and Melinda B. Baur
Give Them Money: The Boltzmann Game, a Classroom or Laboratory Activity Modeling Entropy Changes and the Distribution of Energy in Chemical Systems581
Robert M. Hanson and Bridget Michalek
Acrostic Puzzles in the Classroom589
Dorothy Swain
Interdisciplinary Connections
Translating a Linguistic Understanding of Chemistry to Outcome Achievement and Interdisciplinary Relevance in the Introductory Classroom592
Joseph M. Nemeth
Mr. Wordsworth Salutes the Chemistry Professor594
Judith Saunders
View from My Classroom
Nomenclature Made Practical: Student Discovery of the Nomenclature Rules595
Michael C. Wirtz, Joan Kaufmann, and Gary Hawley
Secondary School Chemistry
Team Building—Problem Solving599
Martin Bartholow
The Great Wakonse Earthquake of 2003: A Short, Problem-Based Introduction to the Titration Concept600
Brian P. Coppola, Amy C. Gottfried, Robyn L. Gdula, Alan L. Kiste, and Nathan W. Ockwig
General Education and General Chemistry—Redux614
Leslie S. Forster
Revisiting Molar Mass, Atomic Mass, and Mass Number: Organizing, Integrating, and Sequencing Fundamental Chemical Concepts617
Stephen DeMeo

 In the Laboratory
What Happens When Chemical Compounds Are Added to Water? An Introduction to the Model–Observe–Reflect–Explain (MORE) Thinking Frame622
Adam C. Mattox, Barbara A. Reisner, and Dawn Rickey
Cost-Effective Teacher
Demonstration of Absorbance Using Digital Color Image Analysis and Colored Solutions644
Shane K. Kohl, James D. Landmark, and Douglas F. Stickle

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
The Rainbow Wheel and Rainbow Matrix: Two Effective Tools for Learning Ionic Nomenclature651
Joseph S. Chimeno, Gary P. Wulfsberg, Michael J. Sanger, and Tammy J. Melton
Chemical Education Research
Chemistry in the Field and Chemistry in the Classroom: A Cognitive Disconnect?655
Karen L. Evans, Gaea Leinhardt, Michael Karabinos, and David Yaron
Chemistry Is in the News: Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Authentic News Media-Based Learning Activities662
Deborah L. Hume, Kathleen M. Carson, Brian Hodgen, and Rainer E. Glaser

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Assessment of a Data-Verification System for the General Chemistry Laboratory668
Laura E. Pence and Harry J. Workman
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Help with Organic Chemistry Reactions from JCE WebWare 672
William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
The "Reaction Rolodex": A Web-Based System for Learning Reactions in Organic Chemistry672
Eric Mahan
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