Tough questions from 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS exam

This article focuses on a couple of questions from the 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam. The first is question #9, which is reproduced below. Almost all students responded (94%), with 34% of them choosing the correct response (B), and about the same percentage (32%) choosing answer C.

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Category: Student challenges Outreach Contests

What’s your kryptonite?

Remember Superman? Not the recent movies starring what’s- his-name, but the television series produced in the 1950s. Clark Kent, the “mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper” would duck into the nearest phone booth (remember those?), and shed his suit in favour of tights and a cape, with the trademark “S” emblazoned on his broad, manly chest.

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Category: Feature Pedagogy, opinion and advice Editorials

Microscale hints from across the pond

It was a great privilege to meet so many Canadian and American chemistry teachers and lecturers at the superbly run ChemEd 2013 conference at the University of Waterloo. It was very brave of the organizers (and indeed myself for that matter) to organise a workshop over a 3,700 mile distance and a rather large stretch of water.

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Category: Feature Pedagogy, opinion and advice Viewpoint and advice

ChemEd 2013 So You Think You Can Demo contest

The answer is YES!! We have photographic evidence for those who were not able to attend the ChemEd 2013 Opening Ceremonies this summer.

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Category: Announcements Conference highlights