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JCE Software Selections for High School Chemistry

NEW! JCE Classroom Activities #1-50, on CD-ROM
Need a quick and easy activity to share at Science Night? Looking for a last-minute laboratory activity that won’t break the bank? Want something new to spice up your curriculum and excite your students? Need hands-on labs appropriate for home use? You’ll find resources to meet all these needs and more on the JCE Classroom Activities #1–50 CD-ROM. The CD collects and categorizes the first 50 activities of the JCE Classroom Activity series, which were published in the Journal of Chemical Education from the beginning of the series in September 1997 through January 2003.

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NEW! Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2007
JCE CD 2007 is one small CD-ROM that contains a full year of JCE issues. It works on both Macintosh and Windows computers and contains the full text, graphics, and tables for everything published in the Journal, as well as abstracts, supplemental materials, and color versions of some figures. JCE CD is formatted so that the articles retain their original printed appearance. Articles are easy to find and view, so that with a few mouse clicks you can locate, read, and print an article from your computer. Full-text searching for any author, title, word, or phrase enables you to find what you are looking for, quickly. JCE CD 2007 takes up hardly any shelf space and is very portable.

All the text and graphics (color graphics when available) for all the articles, features, reviews, and all the supplemental material for the entire year of the JCE are available on a single space-saving, accessible, digital medium—JCE CD. This 2007 edition of the JCE CD series includes all 12 issues of JCE published in 2007.

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NEW! Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8: Waves, Particles, and Chemistry
“OK, I can see waves in a Slinky. You tell me that similar things happen in light waves. I can see that when light interacts with chemicals some cool things can happen. But, I can’t see the connection.” For many students there is a large disconnect between the models of waves we show them and the phenomena that we explain using those wave models. How can we constructively move our students’ understanding of waves from the mechanical models we show them to the chemical phenomena the waves explain? The video and images from Chemistry Comes Alive! (CCA!) Volume 8 can help.

A visual library containing more than 220 QuickTime movies and more than 2500 still images, Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8 features the kind of chemistry that is sure to spark an interest. Whether you browse through the table of contents or search with keywords, CCA! 8 makes it easy for you to find the movie or image you seek to add interest to your presentation. CCA! 8 covers a broad range of wave phenomena and spectacular chemical reactions while also offering chemical insight into commonly asked questions.

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The Joy of Toys, on CD-ROM.

Picture the wonder and excitement of a child playing with a favorite toy. Bring some of that excitement to your classroom with The Joy of Toys CD-ROM while teaching important chemistry concepts. In The Joy of Toys the Journal of Chemical Education has collected its most popular toy-related resources into a single, convenient CD at an affordable price. Teachers of all grade levels, outreach leaders, and parents looking for enrichment for their children will be interested in this collection.

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JCE CLIPs 2005

“Those MSDS sheets have too much information for me to slog through. I wish I could get summaries of the safety precautions that I need to take as a high school teacher.”

“I didn’t know that there were safety concerns with borax, glass wool, graphite, iron oxide, and sucrose. I wonder what I need to be concerned about in using these chemicals in my class or laboratory.”

“We use acetone, ammonia, citric acid, ethyl alcohol, glycerol, phenolphthalein, and potassium permanganate quite often in my lab. What should I tell my students about the precautions they need to take when handling these substances?”

Such statements about chemicals by high school teachers are common. There is so much to know and so little time to learn. Students, their parents, and the school administrators need to be convinced that it is safe to do chemistry in the laboratory. What is the answer?

Safety expert Jay Young has combined information from MSDS sheets with his many years of experience to produce a one-page Chemical Laboratory Information Profile (CLIP) for many of the chemicals that you are most likely to encounter in the laboratory. But the CLIPs remain distributed among the more than 50 issues in which they were published. So, we have compiled all 106 of these CLIPs published from April 2001 through July 2005 as PDF files on a single CD-ROM, JCE CLIPs.

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