Making personalized stirring rods

May 2018 cover

How great is it for students to get to experience working in the lab, all while creating a useful piece of lab equipment that can be used for the remainder of the school year? Within the first month of school, my 10th grade chemistry students perform a series of lab experiences. They practice techniques such as heating a test tube, reading a thermometer to the proper number of digits and — always a student favorite — making their own glass stir rod.

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Category: Feature Activities Classroom From our readers Covers

2019 International Year of the Periodic Table Timeline of Elements

YES! We are doing another collaborative project! If you missed out on participating in our 2011 Periodic Table Project, this is your opportunity to have your students celebrate and be part of a worldwide initiative.

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Category: Feature Series Timeline of Elements

A coded message

Are you able to translate this coded message?

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Category: Feature Student challenges Outreach Contests

Caesar's Last Breath Decoding the secrets of the air around us

Caesar's Last Breath is an absolutely delightful book of science, of history, of humour and of fantasy. Kean provides the reader with his trademark humorous and irreverent style of writing, making this book, like his others, engaging and so very enjoyable.

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