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. […]
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It’s Elemental (October 2009)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009 3:36 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
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
Common, National Standards. Has Anyone Asked a Teacher? (August 2009)
Friday, July 31st, 2009 11:16 am
Written by: John Moore
The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers have launched a drive for national content standards for K–12 education. Subsequent to a meeting in Chicago in April, 46 states have agreed to draft voluntary, common standards by July to specify what students should know by the time they finish high school. […]
Posted in Topics: Editorial, Education, General, High School
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
Beyond Testing (June 2009)
Monday, May 18th, 2009 4:07 pm
Written by: John Moore
In July 2001 I wrote decrying the over-reliance on high-stakes testing as a means of evaluating students, teachers, and schools (1). Eight years later, the situation has not changed for the better. It is worthwhile to revisit the issues raised at that time and make a few more comments.
The strong emphasis on testing seems to […]
Posted in Topics: Editorial, Education, General, High School
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
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Science, Teaching
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