from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
The rush is over. No, not preparing a classroom for the onslaught of new students or tweaking curriculum. The conference rush. As I write these words, I am happy to have achieved my goal of surviving August, which included two meetings within the space of three weeks. (Cue […]
Author Archive
Making the Most of Meetings (November 2009)
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 1:40 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
It’s Elemental (October 2009)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009 3:36 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
Ever experience the phenomenon that occurs once you’re interested in or working on a particular topic? Suddenly, all sorts of examples related to that topic pop up unexpectedly in your everyday life. The examples may have even been there all the time, but you didn’t really notice them. […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Science, Teaching
Connections between Light and Color (September 2009)
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 8:42 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor
Probably like many of you, I connect light and color through science—an object absorbs various types of light and then the color of the object is a result of the light that it reflects. The color we see also depends on how our eyes and brains translate that […]
Posted in Topics: Award Address, High School, Technology
Lost and Found (August 2009)
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 6:37 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
Spending time looking for lost items can be a major pasttime. Keys, purse, and sunglasses can often go missing. In our house, you might hear phrases like, “Mom, I can’t find the sunscreen.” “Where’s my swimsuit?” “I don’t see the hamburgers anywhere in the refrigerator.” Inevitably, one just […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Teaching
Books, Books, and More Books (July 2009)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 11:05 am
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor
Summer is really here though it seems like school just ended, and I just finished going through the turmoil of choosing textbooks once again this year. My school changed its online book vendor, so each instructor had the option of making changes in course textbooks. Perhaps “turmoil” is […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Science
Comment Communication (June 2009)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 3:59 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
I’m a fairly casual blog follower. There are only a few links of that sort in my Web browser’s bookmarks bar, all maintained by geographically distant friends. When I have a few minutes of downtime and the laptop is running, I’ll “drop in” for a quick update on […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Teaching, Technology
“PNTOFVW” (May 2009)
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 8:50 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
A 4,000 mile round-trip in a car can get a little boring. When I was a child, summers typically included a drive from our home in Arizona to visit relatives scattered across Minnesota and Wisconsin. The license plate game was a favorite way to pass the time. We began […]
Posted in Topics: Energy, General, High School, Teaching
Changes–Why Consider Them? (April 2009)
Monday, March 16th, 2009 12:11 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor
A couple of years ago I started making small changes to the order in which I teach some of the topics in my first-year chemistry course. I did this because I had noticed that when I followed the traditional chapter order of the text, I was transitioning back […]
Posted in Topics: Education, General, High School
Bon Appetit (March 2009)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 12:23 am
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
Hungry for Food Chemistry
I’m hungry. Can’t say that I remember the last time reading a magazine brought on an attack of the munchies, but the March issue of the Journal of Chemical Education got my mouth watering. A major reason for this was Miles and Bachman’s article (p […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Teaching
“The Sky’s the Limit” Thinking (February 2009)
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 4:00 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Erica Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
“When it rains, it pours.” The classic Morton Salt slogan pops into my head every once in awhile when I use the salt shaker. I appreciate the cleverness of taking the original meaning of the idiom, and exchanging it for the meaning that the salt doesn’t clump, even when […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Teaching
Posted in Topics: General, High School
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