Features resource links to sites dealing with AP Chemistry, experiments, safety, laboratory instruction, organizations, magazines, and more. Also includes a Teachers' Forum, High School Web Sites section, bulletin board, search engine, Q & A chemistry section, and conferences, jobs pages and more. The site is also available in Spanish. (7/2008)
Offers links to topics that include science rubrics, the International Chemistry Olympiad, homework helpers for students, and chemistry courses of various levels, including AP and ChemCom. Also, this site contains links to software for chemistry, history of science, companies of interest to chemistry teachers, physical constants and periodic tables. (7/2008)
By Robert W. Dull of Largo High School and H. Richard Kerchner of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This site on superconductivity includes history, applications, chemistry, preparation, demonstrations, experiments, and problems with solutions. (7/2008)
From the Home Page: This site acts as a gathering place for teachers of ChemCom to exchange information and files with each other. All ChemCom teachers are invited to upload and download information, relating to the standard eight ChemCom topics, that they have constructed and believe to be useful in the day to day teaching of this course. This includes supplemental worksheets, labs and lab revisions, demonstrations and projects. ChemCom is a chemistry curriculum written for secondary school students by the American Chemical Society (ACS). It attempts to enhance science literacy by emphasizing chemistry's impact on society. It is aimed at the student who will become a citizen but not necessarily a scientist in a technological society. The standard eight units are: Supplying Our Water Needs; Conserving Chemical Resources; Petroleum: To Build? To Burn?; Understanding Food; Nuclear Chemistry in Our World; Chemistry, Air, and Climate; Health: Your Risks and Choices; The Chemical Industry: Promise and Challenge. (7/2008)
Provides information on Columbia University's Summer Research Program along with 232 lesson plans from previous participants. The Program provides middle and high school science teachers with sustained hands-on experience in scientific research so they can better understand the practice of science, and better transmit to their students and fellow teachers a feeling for its practice. Each teacher spends two consecutive summers working as a laboratory research assistant under the supervision of a Columbia faculty mentor. Opportunities are available in chemistry, as well as other sciences. The site also contains videotapes of the previous seminars available for purchase and a calendar of upcoming events. (7/2008)
From the site description: Provide teachers and students with resources that attempt to improve the way scientific and environmental issues are discussed in the classroom. Resources include lessons plans and classroom activities, a Teacher Lounge where teachers can share information and discuss the latest issues, and links to other educational resources on the Internet. The site contains special activities for students in grades 5-9 regarding basic chemistry and the periodic table. The Science Center is sponsored by the Chlorine Chemistry Council and is designed to help bring objective and balanced discussion of environmental and scientific issues to classrooms. (7/2008)
Provides 23 brief descriptions of activities in biology, chemistry, and physics. Teachers may also submit their own activities to share on the site. The site is sponsored by The Organization for Community Networks, an Ohio nonprofit corporation established to be a central repository for information dealing with Free Nets/Community Networks. Activities include measuring parallax by sighting on lit candles in a gymnasium and calculating the time for a drop of water to evaporate molecule by molecule. (7/2008)
The Center is devoted to interdisciplinary research in aspects of polymer, random, and fractal systems and to developing experimental and computational materials for high school and undergraduate education. The site features hands-on activities, laboratory experiments, and interactive visualization programs to encourage students to explore how fundamentally random microscopic events can give rise to fractal macroscopic patterns. Additional features include a virtual molecular dynamics laboratory and overviews of the Center's research projects. (7/2008)
This site, maintained by Case Western Reserve University, provides an introduction at the college freshman level to polymer and liquid crystal chemistry. The site provides a Virtual Textbook and a Virtual Laboratory. The Virtual Textbook contains, in addition to the text, three-dimensional animations, video footage from experiments, still images and sound. In the Virtual Laboratory, the user performs experiments in areas such as polymer growth, phase transformations, and crystalline optics. A CD version of the PLC Tutorial is also available for purchase from the site. (7/2008)
Provides information about ACS Education Division projects for elementary, secondary, and college chemistry programs, a variety of print and video resources for use in and out of the classroom, examination materials, teacher training workshops, and other professional development opportunities. (7/2008)
This site by Nancy Clark shares materials collected during her 37 years of teaching. Categories include Management Tips; Games, Puzzles, Songs, and Labs; Links; Science in the News; and National Standards. (7/2008)
This is a very complete collection of biofuels lessons for the high school classroom. The lessons are broken down for each chapter of a standard textbook and include student data sheets and instructor notes. Lessons include making biodiesel fuel, testing various properties of the fuel and labs on using biodiesel by-products. Chemistry principles include, limiting reactants and percent yield, LeChatelier’s principle, colligative properties, periodic trends and more! The lessons were written by Erin Gawron from Heritage High School while working as part of the Georgia Intern Fellowships for Teachers (GIFT) program at the University of Georgia. She is also a Certified Biofuels Educator through the American Biofuels Council. (7/2008)
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Chemistry Teacher Connection
The "Chemistry Teacher Connection" (CTC) is especially for high school chemistry teachers. For only $40/year, it offers an online-only subscription to CLIC along with membership in the Division of Chemical Education, normally $65/year. CTC subscribers receive access to all articles and supplements from 1996 through the current issue.
Through special arrangement with the ACS, JCE High School CLIC is now able to provide subscribers with online access to Chemical & Engineering News articles that have been selected specifically for secondary science instructors and their students.
Occasionally, collections of JCE back issues become available for donation to individual teachers, schools, or libraries. JCE matches collections with interested recipients. Recipients pay shipping costs or pick up the collection.
For journals in other fields of chemistry visit ACS Publications.
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