Open-book, collaborative quiz: Recipe for engagement

I’ve written about incentivizing students as a way towards engagement. I recently hit upon a great idea — a real brain wave. AP Chemistry students completed a challenging lab where they carried out (and analyzed) a bunch of redox reactions.

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Category: Feature Pedagogy, opinion and advice Editorials Viewpoint and advice

February 2019 issue

Another great cover from the chemistry classroom? It is not what you think! Thank you Vivian Templeton who teaches at Toronto District Christian High School, Woodbridge, Ontario for sending this in!

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Category: Feature From our readers Covers

Acid base speed dating

The unit of acids and bases is difficult for most students in Advanced Placement Chemistry. The amount of various calculations can be overwhelming. I decided it was time to make the pH calculations more exciting — acid base speed dating! Submitted by Kristen Drury, William Floyd High School, Mastic Beach, New York

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Category: Feature Activities Classroom Themed and special days

Letter to the editor

As an educator, I have really no way of knowing whether I had a marginal, moderate or profound influence on my students on a certain day — all I know is that my apparent “bad” day was likely not as bad as I thought it was, nor my supposed “good” day as enlightening for my students as I believed it to be.

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Category: Feature From our readers Letters to the Editor