from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor
A family friend designs, builds, and sells furniture made from used wine barrel staves. His journey of developing production methods over the past couple of years has led him into new territory. He’s played a bit of the chemist, experimenting with the use and resulting look of various […]
Archive for the 'Science' Category
Resident Experts (November 2007)
Monday, November 26th, 2007 1:19 am
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
Learning from Others (September 2007)
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 6:35 pm
Written by: John Moore
All of us can learn a lot when a very effective teacher communicates about teaching. An example is an interview with Eleanor Siegrist, this year’s winner of the James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching, that begins on p 1408. Reading Siegrist’s answers to the Journal’s questions led me to think further about […]
Authenticity (August 2007)
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 1:10 pm
Written by: John Moore
It is easy to find fault with political discourse in the
United States. The number of complaints that our system is broken, in proportion to the total population, is about the same as the number of complaints that our chemical education system is broken, in proportion to the number of chemical educators. But neither system shows […]
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