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Chem 13 News Archives
December 2019
- December's cover: Gingerbread mini bath bombs
- Education-enemy #1: Mobile Phones
- December's Letter to the Editor
- Snow: Making life possible in the Arctic
- Invitation to engage
- Chemis-tree carols
- DIY holiday bath bombs
- Chemist's palette puzzle
- The Radioactive Elements: 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table
- The Periodic Table - A Very Short Introduction
- December's cartoon: Off the Mark
- ChemEd 2021 website launched
- Chem Dates for Winter and Spring 2020
November 2019
- The November 2019 cover: Carey Bissonnette
- A tribute to Dr, Carey Bissonnette by Bill Power
- The agony and the ecstasy*: Avogadro and Chem 13 News Exams
- Tough questions series - 2006 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2007 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2008 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2009 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2010 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2011 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2012 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Tough questions series - 2014 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- 2019 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: François Raymond
- The creation of the periodic table by James Marshall
- The Bastard Brigade: November's book review
- Hidden elements puzzle
- Tributes to Carey
O
ctober 2019
- The October 2019 cover: The Mendeleev Mosaic
- Unveiling an International Masterpiece: The Timeline of Elements interactive exhibit and Mendeleev Mosaic
- Eventually...
- 2019 Chem 13 News and Avogadro Exam Winners
- Canadian crystal growing competition
- Spectroscopy
- A Guide to the Elements: October's book review
- Student eye
- Elementary word search puzzle
September 2019
- The Arctic atmosphere: Unique and amazing
- Job descriptions
- September's cover: Indicator droplet art
- It's official! ChemEd 2021 in Canada
- Berzelius’ world
- 3D printed Boggle game with binary compounds
- Teacher-created wikispace of games and activities
- Periodic message puzzle
- Aluminum and copper cartoon
May 2019
- Ironing out smelting technology
- My approach to laboratory work — and everything else
- Advice for veteran teachers: how to best guide new teachers
- Hidden chemical puzzle
- Come for the chemistry, stay for the fun!
- Chemistry of the cure: Case studies of some Inuit remedies
- A chemical garden
- The discovery of the elements: Humphry Davy and the voltaic pile
- Timeline of Elements poster
April 2019
- Cover: Marbling Easter eggs
- Activity: The chemistry of marbling Easter eggs
- State of the laboratory
- A ChemEd 2019 featured speaker: Theodore Gray
- Thank you . . . or blank you
- More Molecules of Murder
- Hidden chemistry words puzzle
- An introduction to the Philatelic Table of the Elements 2.0
- Solids, the underrepresented state of matter
- The discovery of the elements: True elements — Lavoisier and Phlogiston
- 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table update
March 2019
- The power of empirical evidence
- Fluorescing chlorophyll for St. Patrick’s Day
- Adjusting study techniques
- How to fill a Pringles® box with hydrogen
- The Poison Squad
- The Ulu: Chemistry and Inuit women’s culture
- Understanding heat flow from a coffee cup
- Significant features clusters
- Elemental compounds puzzle
- The discovery of the elements: The miners
February 2019
- February cover: Sunlight through crystals
- Open-book, collaborative quiz: Recipe for engagement
- Letter to the editor from Yvonne Clifford
- 2019 Chem 13 News and Avogadro Exams
- A study of the rate of a candle burning
- My first undergrad chemistry exam
- Acid base speed dating
- Celebrating relationship humour from the 2000s
- Sea ice: Essential for northern survival
- Quotegram puzzle
- The Ancients and the Alchemists
- Selection of early submissions to Mendeleev Mosaic
- Marie mosaic
December 2018 - January 2019
- Make me an offer…
- Growing a chemistree and a competition
- CCC: 2019 exam and 2018 winners
- Communicative and therapeutic benefits of stamping
- Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
- TORNADOES, RAINBOWS, AND CHEMISTRY
- Moving out and far far away
- ChemEd Reg Friesen Lecturer
- Reflectance spectroscopy of a sugar cookie baking
- Famous scientists puzzle
- Christmas carols
- Aladdin’s lamp
- Introducing paper chromatography
- The egg experiment
- A simple electronegativity demonstration device
- Using chemistry to clean a teapot
- Remembering great chemistry teachers
- 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table update
November 2018
- We need to think like economists
- Keeping an eye on puddle chemistry
- I want to be a doctor
- Book review: The Radium Girls
- Consider presenting at ChemEd!
- Chemical anagrams
- Celebrating the decade of the 80s
- Famous visitors
- Chemical stream puzzle
- What’s this?
- Invert without a mess
- Moles on the shelf
- The US penny revealed
- PFOS: The newest Artic Pollutant
- STAO/APSO Conference
- Timeline of elements update
- Mendeleev mosaic
October 2018
- Polymer fun cover
- Polymer fun - story
- The good fight
- Once in a Blue Moon
- One pearl of wisdom
- In memory of Robert Le Roy
- Chemistry nomenclature puzzle
- What are you doing for Mole Day?
- Intermolecular forces and phases of matter
- Make Plans for ChemEd 2019!
- Lab safety — a "find problem" puzzle
- Cupcakes as oxygen molecules
- Sodium Award winner
- Story of Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre
- Most memorable hoax: Original Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre
- Partial pencil pressure
- Book review: Chemistry in Your Kitchen
- Soy Sauce — An essential Inuit condiment
- Stuffed moles and life-size Avogadro
- Lionel High School Scholarships
- The (real) reason why chemists need mathematics
- Solubility cartoon
- Molympics 2018
September 2018
- Art and Chemistry: POPcasso (front cover)
- The launch of Chem 13 News online publication
- Elemental percentages puzzle
- My take on significant digits
- Sig dig in undergrad labs (Part 1)
- New freely-available interactive high school chemistry lessons
- The toothpaste challenge
- 50 years ago we started something special
- Celebrating 1968-78 decade
- Ramah Bay
- 7,000 years of Aboriginal culture — and chemistry
- Nomenclature nonsense puzzle
- 2018 Chem 13 News and Avogadro exam winners
- Canadian Crystal Growing Competition
- 2018 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: Jailson Lima
M
ay 2018
- Letters to the editor
- Why not start a Chemistry Education Research Group?
- How to be a good lab partner again
- Caesar's last breath
- Decoding the secrets of the air around us
- Creating personalized stirring rods
- 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table: Timeline of Elements
- How many words starting with E?
- Gasoline and diesel fuel: Carbon pricing and heating values
- A coded message
April 2018
- Letter to the editor: Speed of light in a microwave
- Chem Club at Hilliard Bradley High School
- Dry-erase markers — and the teachable moment
- Low stress chemistry with “hands-on” stoichiometry
- New IUPAC rules make molecular names more pronounceable, friendlier
- How I prepare my students to write university exams…
- Assumptions: Part 2 — Fact versus theory: electronegativity
- Chemistry criss-cross puzzle
- Know the limit and teach within it!
- Part 3: Evolution and revolution
- Variations on egg in the bottle — the gas laws
March 2018
- Growing copper crystals
- Joy of joys!
- Lab partners matter
- The easiest and the toughest questions in 2017 CCC
- Views from the classroom of award winning chemistry teachers
- Scrambled chemistry quote
- Part 3. Building a nanoparticle
- Part 2: The evolution of models
February 2018
- Cover: Beautiful copper solutions -- Products of a Remsen demonstration
- Adiscussion on slime -- letters
- ACCN guest article
- Microwaving a chocolate bar
- Winter Olympics chemistry puzzle
- First day of classes— read your syllabus
- Calorimeter calculations with aqueous electrolytes
- Estimating amazing surface area of the tiny
- Thought lab: Using turmeric as an indicator
December 2017 - January 2018
- Periodic Table Project update
- Letters to the editor
- What's up with the bell?
- A good problem relating to the gas laws
- An earned "golden" ticket to rewrite
- Nomenclature nonsense
- Holiday chemistry
- Poinsettia indicator holiday decorations
- Function and importance of nanoparticles in catalysis
- 1958 Annual Exam from the Ontario Department of Education
- Book review: Poisons and poisonings - Death by Stealth
- Midterms can be a shock
- Thought lab: Surface area and rate of reaction AP Lab Review - Problem 3
- Analogies and models
- Our school's spaceflight experiment program
- Santa's parents cartoon
- Santa and chemistry sets
November 2017
- Cover: Quantum dots: Harnessing the nanoscopic rainbow
- Lettersto the editor
- Good relationships
- Water from gasoline
- “Close enough” — said no chemist ever!
- Assumptions: Part 1 — Preparing solutions
- Active ingredient content in tablet (a follow up)
- Thought lab: Catalysts and hydrogen peroxide
- Good communication is the key: email
- Book review: The Elements
- Science Fair cartoon
October 2017
- Cover:Spooky pumpkin
- Letters to the editor
- Lab safety & common sense — not mutually exclusive
- In praise of two-litre soda bottles
- ChemEd 2017 Irwin Talesnick Award: Jean Hein
- The making of a mole
- Thought lab 1: Lime-A-Way
- The chemistry of Alka-Seltzer
- Who knew?
- Mole pattern
- Molympics: The events
- Fascinating chemistry cartoon
September 2017
- Cover: Home-made match
- 2017 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: Michael P Jansen
- Thank you… for the struggle
- Percentage purity of calcium carbide — a quick lab
- Just take a breath
- Introducing polarity: claim, evidence, reasoning (CER)
- Cheating: The not-good, the bad and the ugly
- Winning tiles to be added to Periodic Table Project
- A chemistry history puzzle
- Edible candle
- Periodic Table of emission spectra
- Your own peril cartoon
May 2017
- Cover: Cobalt complex ions: Le Châtelier's Principle
- It doesn't matter how you feel…
- Valuable knowledge
- Think about the chemistry, not the math
- Icebergs and Avogadro's number
- Judging - Oganessian and our stakeholders
- Runners up
- Why scary lab accidents happen
- Photochromic dyes for plastic lenses (part 2)
- AP Chemistry survival
- Final four elemental tiles:Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine, Oganesson
- Safety cartoon
April 2017
- Cover: Evidence of a reaction
- Memories of a chemistry teacher
- Redox and murder (Video recommendation)
- Famous scientists
- Sleep isn't for the weak
- Sorting the atomic model
- Stained glass spiral periodic table
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Net-ionic equations in West Side Story
- Photochromic dyes for plastic lenses: Part 1
- Borax advisory update Health Canada
- Starch in place of borax
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 4
- Name this compound for Easter
March 2017
- Cover: iPhone and prism glasses
- Letter to the editor
- Celebrate our colleagues
- Decoding the chemicals in our food puzzle (scroll down to find link in March 2017 contents)
- What's in an organic compound name?
- Sources of helium - Some uplifting news
- 2016 Canadian Chemistry Contest: Worst discriminator
- Get your messages
- Periodic graphics of elements
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Racquetball reactions - Concrete examples of abstract concepts
- New Elements Contest
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 3
February 2017
- Cover: Native copper with silver
- Letter to the editor
- Foreshadowing… not just for English teachers
- Cheeky "W" in September 2016
- #clickbaitchem
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 2
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Stoichiometry of antacids
- Valentine's su-chem-du
- Our students don't read…
- What on Earth are Tholins?
- 2016 Canadian Chemistry Contest: Best discriminators
- Signature mugs: Seaborg group
December 2016 - January 2017
- Cover: Littlest chemis-tree
- Letter to the editor
- Seasonal message
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Hydronium ion: Yes or no?
- Comparing the SN1 and SN2 Reactions
- Scavenger hunt
- Chemis-trees revisited
- But sir, the computer ate my homework…and other mystical excuses
- 1988 Avogadro Exam: Part 1
- VSEPR, the easy way
- A buffered vs. a non-buffered solution
- Chemistry in our lives
- Signature mugs: Across the pond - Continental Europe
- First entry to Periodic Table Project New Elements
- Deep thoughts
- Regulation of active ingredient content in tablets
November 2016
- Cover: Colourful flames
- Letter to the editor
- Shoutout
- Not quite sure…
- Goldilocks
- The Comback Kid
- The logistics of running a practical exam (Part 2)
- Let’s get started
- Messages from the mole
- #clickbait syllabus
- Fentanyl
- University of Waterloo highlights at 2016 STAO/APSO
- The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons
- The Limiting factors of eraser effectiveness
October 2016
- Cover:Need a light?
- Time theft
- Mole Day celebrations at Waterloo
- Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Teacher replaces written final with a practical lab exam (Part 1)
- Millimole Day is Thursday, October 20 this year
- Mole Day in the Classroom
- Get the ball rolling
- Salty pictures
- ID of an unknown carbonate
- Signature Mugs: Across the pond
- Gak attack!
- Don’t fear your chemistry instructor
- Spooky cookies in a periodic table
September 2016
- Cover: Let the sparks fly
- Letter to the editor
- Curriculum night
- Education research denialism
- Quotes
- Nihomium, moscovium, tennessine and organesson
- Gadolinium in MRI contrast agents
- Signature mugs: Texas connections
- 2016 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year
- Deadlines are not a suggestion
- National Crystal Growing Competition
- Viscosity success
May 2016
- Cover: Up close and freezing
- Letters to the editor
- Whatcha gonna do when I’m gone?
- Should Harriet Brooks be on a Canadian banknote?
- Question and answers from the past
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Battle of the blues
- Spoonful of sugar
- Book review:50 Ideas You Really Need to Know - Chemistry
- Signature mugs: Tragedies of oxygen
- Refresh their stoichiometry
- Cartoon
- Equilibrium concept through interactive analogies
April 2016
- Cover: A crafty chemistry set
- Getting extra yardage: The Crushing Can
- We’ll do it my way… the right way
- AviOrnstein.com: a puzzle and a sample essay, Shared Idea
- Science competition
- Signature mugs: Firsts
- Cold finger distillation
- Chemistry in Pictures contest
- Proper use (I mean chemical educational use) of Facebook!
- Sharing chemistry with the community — Now you don’t (see it)! Now you do!
- Question and answers from the past
- Chemistry in “The Martian” and for a mission to Mars
- Book review: Einstein Relatively Simple
- Caution: wet floor
March 2016
- Cover:Burning magnesium photo
- Why I hate grading lab reports
- Insoluble… I think not
- Extra yardage out of the floating penny
- Video review: The Poisoner's Handbook
- Easter solutions
- How much is a chemistry teacher worth?
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The chemistry of color
- Chemical rainbow
- Iohexol — a CT scan contrast agent compound containing iodine
- Requirement of laboratory safety training on teacher certification
- Cartoon: Significant digits
- Periodic Table of shelliments
February 2016
- Cover: Let the sparks fly
- Letter to the editor
- Forget passion — it’s about engagement
- Pizza box spectroscope: Calibration (part 2)
- AP Thermodynamics and Rates of Reaction test: Valentine edition
- Making chemistry relevant to indigenous peoples
- How to make goldenrod paper and some activities
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Chemical sunset
- 2016 Chem 13 News and Avogadro Exams
- Chemmy bear
December 2015 - January 2016
- Cover: Equipment chemis-tree
- Chemis-tree
- Letter to editor
- Quote
- A chemistry class to begin the year’s work (reprint from 1980)
- A “win-win” lab exam
- Negative temperature?
- Critical pH and Le Châtelier: How everyday substances and habits can dissolve your teeth away
- Book review: Monkey, Myths and Molecules
- Another chemistry Christmas logic puzzle
- "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
- Pizza box spectroscope: Construction (part 1)
- Create ornaments by etching roofing tins
- Mole-nora
- Chemis-tree
- Acid-base titrations with citric acid: part 2
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Limiting and excess reagents
- Using chemistry in a co-op research job
November 2015
- Cover: Star in a cup
- Ann O’Tate
- Salt in the American Civil War
- Book review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck
- Chemicals in the news
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 3: Pressure-amount relationship
- STAO/APSO Conference, November 12 – 14, 2015
- Chemistry highlights at 2015 STAO/APSO
- The ASA tablet bottle quiz and challenge
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The solubility and alkalinity of ammonia
- Canadian Chemistry Contest for high school and cégep students
- 2015 CCC Exam best discriminating item
- ICE problem cartoon: PrashanthVelayudhan
October 2015
- Cover: Mole Day fun
- Periodic table of Rice Krispies squares
- Sublimation of iodine: Rise and fall of a misconception
- First year chemistry: Multiple choice madness
- Not just red eyes and it’s not just the pee
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 2: Pressure-temperature relationship
- Redox in the news
- Oxygen and hydrogen go to a pool party cartoon
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Chemistry and our health
- A revolution for feminism in France
- Periodic table of horrors
September 2015
- Cover: Smoldering reaction
- Letters to the editor
- Sodium and potassium reacting with water, in the absence of air
- What’s your (chemistry) fantasy?
- Bismuth in pharmaceuticals: more than Pepto-Bismol
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 1: Pressure-volume relationship
- Water door decor
- Winning crystals
- 2015 Chem 13 News and Avogadro prizes
- Beaumier Award for High School/CÉGEP Chemistry Teachers
- Sharing Chemistry with the Community: “C” the difference
- Book review: Molecules That Amaze Us
- Stacey's top ten lab rules
May 2015
- Cover: Bubbles on fire
- Celebrate!!!
- When kids cheat...
- Letters to the editor
- ‘Whoosh Tube’ demonstration (alternative to the bottle)
- Boiling water demo: Much more than meets the eye
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Bubble-ology part 2
- Ready for university chemistry? Have students use our online self-diagnosis tool
- Book review: The Teenage Brain
- Some do's and don'ts of chemistry tests: Prepare, write and reflect
- How to get started with educational research
- Welcoming students to chemistry
April 2015
- Cover: Beautiful Chemistry website
- Letters to the editor
- Vive la science!
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: Part 5
- Nanotechnology: Bringing it safely into the classroom
- Bubble-ology part 1
- Beyond the “lecture” theatre: First-year chemistry learning resources
- The fermentation of sugars using yeast: A discovery experiment
- Engaging story on Marguerite Perey
March 2015
- Cover: ‘Whoosh Bottle’ feature article; who‘Whoosh Bottle’
- Letter to the editor
- It's cold outside…your comfort zone
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 4 (the classroom)
- Chemical in the news: Osmium tetroxide
- Why educational research matters to you: Parachutes, particles, bonding and “good enough” models
- Mole art
- Sharing Chemistry with the Community: ‘Elephant’s toothpaste’
- Book review: Stuff Matters
February 2015
- Cover: Scientists in love
- Letters to the editor
- A chemical compound by any other name…
- Book review: Denalism - How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 3
- Handouts worth keeping by Cation Designs
- What colour is P4?
- Electrochemistry on the move
- Burning magnesium in a Bunsen flame and other flame experiments
- Should we upgrade photosynthesis and grow supercrops?
- Tough question from the 2014 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Using your Valentine’s Day chocolates to demonstrate density
D
ecember 2014 - January 2015
- Cover: Collection of Chemis-tree
- Letter to the editor
- Formal lab reports must die
- Re: Why are these tough questions?
- Reaction types energize learning
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 2
- Finding equilibrium and deconstructing misconceptions with Nano Hexbugs(TM)
- The last day before winter vacation
- Foaming chemis-tree
- Knitting for chemistry
- Rustic “chemis-tree” wreath lab: Iron-copper single displacement reaction
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The case of the missing bunny
- Natural gas (methane) and propane as fuel gases
- O Little Endpoint I Did Miss
- Book review: The Joy of Chemistry
- Two weeks theory, followed by two weeks lab
- Colourful milk demo
November 2014
- Cover: A bright star
- “Don’t mail matches”
- Book review: Mad Science 2
- Best “Rate my professor” comment
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 1
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Follow up
(Oxidation of carbohydrates using chlorate salts) - Why study chemistry?
- Getting to know you!
- Periodic Table Project update
- Canadian Chemistry Contest for high school and cégep students
- Why educational research matters to you: Rote vs meaningful learning
- Acid-base titrations with citric acid: part 1
October 2014
- Cover: A Mole Day greeting card
- Strategy and tactics
- An 1860 blood test for you to try
- Sharing chemistry with the community: How to blow out a light bulb
- CEMPAZUCHITL, a puzzle celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead
- ECCNvideos: Free online demonstrations for students and teachers
- A National Chemistry Week outreach project Periodic Table of LEGO®
- NO FeAr Science Club
- Plan to have a sweet National Chemistry Week
- Learning styles: fact and fiction
- Chemicals in the news: Azodicarbonamide
September 2014
- Cover: Science and beauty in a soap bubble
- Letters to the editor
- We are (almost) all mentors
- Stop, drop and roll
- Translating research into classroom practice
- The creative stimulus
- Why is my tire flat?
- Jumping onto a moving train
- Beaumier Award for High School/CÉGEP Chemistry Teachers
- Canada’s National Crystal Growing competition
- All kids should have these…
- Why are these tough questions?
- Student teacher’s life lessons
- Songs with an elemental twist
- Unexpected misconception
- Compressed organic class
- Book review: Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research
- So why the lack of chemists?
- Graham’s law of diffusion — a quantitative demonstration
- A little help from my friends
May 2014
- Cover: Lycopodium powder
- Letters to the editor
- A strange factoid about a zinc supplement
- Sharing… goes beyond kindergarten
- Phasing out the demo
- Taking the poisonous bite out of cyanide and avoiding other poisons
- An all-natural banana
- What we can teach with hybrid orbitals
- Chemicals in the news: Chemical explosion
April 2014
- Cover: Egg-cellent little demo for spring
- Letters to the editor
- The real value of lab technicians
- Viewpoint: Why do people hate the word “chemicals”?
- Organic molecules of everyday life.12. Triclosan
- Canadian Chemical News gets schooled
- Glenforest's wall-sized periodic table!
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “Molding a thermoplastic”
- Molding a thermoplastic
- Acids and bases: Why the confusion?
- Acid-base titrations 2: the acid content of individual sour hard candies
- Is aluminum amphoteric? A picture is worth 1 x 103words
March 2014
- Cover: Ammonia and hydrochloric acid
- Kathy Kitzmann wins James Bryant Conant Award
- Chance discovery favours the prepared mind
- Forget about saving the planet, I just want to eat my snacks in peace
- The American Chemical Society to fund American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT)
- Use and misuse of technology in the university chemistry classroom
- Princeton Day School’s periodic table
- ChemEd 2013 workshops
- Sharing chemistry with the community: A colorful catalyst
- Para-Chlorobenzotrifluoride (PCBTF) – the ‘super-solvent’
- Book review: The Case of the Poisonous Socks, Tales from Chemistry
- Singing Flame Tube at ChemEd 2013
February 2014
- Cover: Ignite your passion
- Letters to the editor
- Orbital hybridization — the stork
- Xylenes — A cautionary tale
- Part 2: Showing/doing chemistry using minimum-cost resources
- Chemistry murals
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “The Exploding Gummy Bear”
- Chemistry: Its bond with the past
- A Chemistry Olympiad question in Canadian context
December 2013 - January 2014
- Cover: Chemis-tree
- Letters to the editor
- Book review: The Half-Life of Facts - How Everything We Know Has An Expiration Date
- Stop telling us how to do our job
- Organic molecules of everyday life. 11. Frankincense and myrrh
- A CD review: 2010 41st Annual Once Upon a Christmas Cheery In the Lab
- Holiday molecules
- Measuring CO2 at Mauna Loa
- Student activity: Calibration at Mauna Loa
- Carving a can with chemistry
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Polyurethane foam smoothies
- Student-created ceramic periodic table
- Chemistry using minimum-cost resources, Part 1
- Does teaching need changing?*
- ChemEd 2013 traditional Mole Day Run
- Deleted scene from Breaking Bad that a chemistry teacher can relate to
November 2013
- Cover: The Ramp of Science
- Diffusion of ions
- “Who is the antiquirk?” A chemical analogy
- Mysterious gas riddle — a discussion
- ChemEd 2013 So You Think You Can Demo contest
- Microscale hints from across the pond
- What’s your kryptonite?
- Tough questions from 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS exam
- Canada nabs triple bronze
October 2013
- Cover: Mole Day Celebrations in Quebec
- Chemistry: It’s not fun
- Acid-base titrations: comparing the acid content of low-acid fruit juices to regular fruit juices
- ‘Twas the night before Mole Day'
- Mole handwarmers
- “The chemistry of US currency – Magnetic ink” Sharing chemistry with the community
- Nanotechnology at Waterloo: Impressions of a first-year student
- What to do if your dog gets skunked
September 2013
- Cover: Floating coins
- A mole of lightning
- New trends and developments of solid phase microextraction (SPME)
- Chemistry explosions are all bang and no buck
- Book review: On Fact and Fraud – Cautionary tales from the front lines of science
- Polarity demos
- Mysterious gas riddle
- Cartoon: Mediation, Joy of Tech
- Shout-out: Neat little trick for gas laws
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “Walking on Oobleck”
- Percent water in green crystalline compound: An inquiry lab
May 2013
- Cover: Beauty of surface tension, spheres and attractive forces
- Letter to the editor
- An almost forgotten simplification…
- Organic molecules of everyday life: 10. Hexenal
- Public enemy number one?
- Concentration of urine in a pool
- Skeletal formulae revisited
- Book review:The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
April 2013
- Cover: A thermite blast
- Chemistry in the news: Doping
- Does solid lithium hydrogen carbonate exist?
- Ten first-year chemistry student studying misconceptions
- Successful AP Chemistry lab sequence converted to inquiry approach
- Photo challenge: what is it?
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Propane Bubbles
- Professor Wildi’s Visualization of Units pages for unit conversions
March 2013
- Cover: Copper wire in silver nitrate solution
- Letters to the editor
- Book review:The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
- Oh Henry story
- Filter paper riddle
- Demystifying the Poly Density Bottle
- Reaction animation old style
- Dogs teaching chemistry
- The mole
February 2013
- Cover: Pouring crystals
- Electron affinity, the oft-forgotten — yet essential – periodic property
- What got me hooked on chemistry
- Identifying polar molecules kinesthetically
- A chemistry teacher brag page: Valentines
- Creative mole conversions
- Pet molecule
December 2012 - January 2013
- Cover: Oh Chemis-tree
- Out. . . Friends. . . Stuff . . . Later
- Book review: Radioactivity of a Mysterious Science
- Revisiting an equilibrium demo from a classic resource
- Qualitative analysis of a redox reaction
- Snow exploratory
- Gravimetric titration: simple, buret-free, and high precision
- The birth of Chem Ed conferences – The genie in a bottle
- Periodic Table with CD cases
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Burning steel wool demonstration
- Redox card games
- The Canadian Chemistry Contest — examples of questions
- Fertilizing the ocean
- An olympiad question about antibiotics
November 2012
- Cover: Glowing dyes
- Letters to the editor
- There are no shortcuts
- PM2.5 pollution on Science 2.0
- An unusual and simply prepared compound of copper
- STAO 2011: Rusty iron balls
- Demistry of candles and flames
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Miniature Whoosh Bottle Demonstration
- Science poem
- Book review: Denying Science - Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions and the War Against Reality
October 2012
- Cover Mole Cartoon
- Chem rant
- Halloween shout-outs
- A tactile approach
- The 2012 Olympic Games... in Washington DC!
- A DVD review: The New Chem Source
- Why atoms, anyway? Teaching the origins of the atomic idea
- Periodic table cupcakes using tile flags
- Smiles in chemistry from birthdays to Mole Days
- Chemistry helps shine a light on a paleontological mystery
- Chem Mad Gab
September 2012
- Cover: Mesmerized by bubbles
- Letter to the editor
- Hunting the Elements
- Communicate with your students using Twitter
- Chemistry Twitter favorites
- Pet peeve: skeletal organic formulas
- New period in the periodic table?
- Element 119 - Turning a line
- Timely science humour
- Periodic Table Project wall mural installation
- iPod version Periodic Table Project
- Names for elements 114 and 116
- Design the new elemental tiles for the Periodic Table Project
- Ode to Mendeleev
- ChemEd conference memories
- JCE welcomes new precollege editors
- Have things changed in 25 years?
May 2012
- Cover: “I think she might be hooked on science!”
- Letters to the editor
- Book review: Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers in Chemistry, Volume 5
- Crystal craziness in Clifford’s chemistry class
- Joseph Priestley dephlogisticated air show…
April 2012
- Cover: Water and movement
- Letters to the editor
- Pet peeves request
- Why do I have to study chemistry, too (two)?
- WolframAlpha: A valuable tool for chemistry….
- Our Periodic Table project
- Olympic medals in 2012
- Book Review: Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method
- A chemistry poem
March 2012
- Cover: Emerald-coloured crystals
- Letters to the editor
- A chemistry teacher’s pet peeves
- A classroom limerick challenge
- Book review: The Alchemy of Air
- Erlenmeyer flask snow hat
- Is magnesium nitride formed in the combustion of magnesium?
- Play a Game!
- When 2 minus 1 is not equal to 2 minus 1: a discrepant event