Happy International Year of Chemistry! 1-1-11 marks the start of a year-long focus on the “achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind”, with the theme “Chemistry—our life, our future”.
The American Chemical Society has launched an online tool to help us learn more about these achievements and contributions. “365: Chemistry for Life” […]
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A Daily Dose of Chemistry
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 9:12 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
Instrumentation from the Inside Out
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 10:25 am
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
At the recent American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in Boston, I spent an evening on the exhibit show floor. Walking the floor at an ACS meeting always leaves me a little bit wanting, as my current stage in life and employment does not require the purchase of cutting-edge instrumentation, specialty glassware, or textbooks. However, […]
Posted in Topics: General, Teaching, Technology
Including the Environment in Our Teaching
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 1:27 pm
Written by: John Moore
At the recent ACS National Meeting in Boston I attended a symposium on global climate change. The first speaker challenged educators to provide better background for students to understand the science of the atmosphere and climate. In a democracy, that seems absolutely essential, but how many of us are really including these things in what […]
Posted in Topics: Energy, General, Technology
Computer Game Is an Important Research Tool
Monday, August 9th, 2010 10:11 am
Written by: John Moore
A report published in Nature last Thursday, August 4, describes the success of the computer game Foldit, which is designed to encourage people to contribute to research on protein folding and at the same time have fun. (The Nature article is restricted to those with subscriptions, but a layman’s description is here.) The success of […]
Posted in Topics: Education, General, Science, Technology
Seeing is Believing: Learning from Periodic Table Live! Videos
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 8:25 am
Written by: John Moore
What can you and your students learn from videos showing reactions of the elements? A lot! The link below is to an article that describes what we learned from videos that show elements reacting with air, water, acids, and base and how what the video showed compared with textbook descriptions. Tied to this year’s National […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Periodic Table, Technology
Elements on Facebook: Support Your Favorite Element
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 7:18 am
Written by: John Moore
Would your students like to use Facebook for science networking? Would you like them to? The link below goes to an article from the Journal of Chemical Education that describes the Elements on Facebook project which allows your students to support their favorite element.
This makes a great opportunity to engage students and the public in […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Periodic Table, Technology
Using Periodic Table Live! Effectively
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 12:17 pm
Written by: John Moore
Would you like to excite your students with an interactive periodic table that contains videos, graphing, data, and more? Here’s what it looks like.
Read about Periodic Table Live! and try it with your students! PTL! is a free resource available from the ChemEd DL at http://www.chemeddl.org/collections/ptl/index.html.
This post contains a PDF file of an article from […]
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Periodic Table, Technology
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
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
Sharing and Its Rewards (December 2008)
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 11:24 pm
Written by: Erica Jacobsen
from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor
I am on a “teacher’s high” right now! I can’t thank you—my chemistry colleagues—enough. This past week my AP Chemistry students started a lab that is often referred to as the “Green Crystal Lab”. It involves the synthesis of solid K3Fe(C2O4)3·3H2O (green crystals) and can be followed by […]
Posted in Topics: High School, Science, Technology
Posted in Topics: General, High School, Science, Teaching, Technology
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