http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl Opinions from the PI of ChemEd DL; Editorials, Especially for High School Teachers, and other material from the Journal of Chemical Education Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:01:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en from Laura Slocum, JCE High School Associate Editor Recently, I have spent many hours working with seven students as they develop their own demonstrations and hands-on activities focusing on elements—the theme of this year’s National Chemistry Week (NCW)—“Chemistry—It’s Elemental!” What a special privilege this has been for me. My love of ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/11/17/teaching-is-a-privilege-december-2009/ By Dan Toomey, Edgewood Middle School, Madison, Wisconsin I have used “A Kool Reaction from the Fine Print” JCE Classroom Activity with my 8th grade students as guided-inquiry method in order to introduce atoms. (This activity is the one that was done in the Chemistry Comes Alive! Part 4 NSDL/NSTA Web ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/24/using-%e2%80%9ca-kool-reaction-from-the-fine-print%e2%80%9d-in-the-classroom/ 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. ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/20/seeing-is-believing-learning-from-periodic-table-live-videos/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/17/elements-on-facebook-support-your-favorite-element/ 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 ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/15/using-periodic-table-live-effectively/ from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor The rush is over. No, not preparing a classroom for the onslaught of new students or tweaking curriculum. The conference rush. As I write these words, I am happy to have achieved my goal of surviving August, which included two meetings within the ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/13/making-the-most-of-meetings-november-2009/ This links below describe a neat way for your students to do research on a particular element and display their results to your entire class. Each student constructs an icosahedron with a different kind of information about an element on each of the 20 faces. The icosahedra are then hung ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/12/a-periodic-table-on-your-classroom-ceiling/ Periodic Table Presentations and Inspirations by Mary E. Saecker Graphic Representations of the Periodic System The 2009 ACS National Chemistry Week theme of “Chemistry—It’s Elemental” celebrates the elegant, orderly, and inspirational icon of chemistry, the periodic table. However, as John Moore points out in his August 2003 editorial, Turning the (Periodic) Tables ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/10/07/periodic-table-presentations-and-inspirations/ from Erica K. Jacobsen, JCE High School Editor Ever experience the phenomenon that occurs once you’re interested in or working on a particular topic? Suddenly, all sorts of examples related to that topic pop up unexpectedly in your everyday life. The examples may have even been there all the time, but ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/09/19/its-elemental-october-2009/ This issue is all about the chemical elements—the building blocks from which come the more than 49 million inorganic and organic compounds registered by the Chemical Abstracts Service and the many benefits those substances bring to our society. I hope that you learn a lot more about the elements from ... http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/chemeddl/2009/09/16/my-favorite-elements-october-2009/