News & Updates

Chemistry: it’s the central science, and honestly, pretty great. But is there anything that *isn’t* chemistry? We’re challenging teachers to explore, 'What in the World Isn’t Chemistry?'.

This past summer AACT hosted an AP Chemistry Content Writing Team to create AP chemistry teaching resources for our High School Classroom Library. The first three lessons, released on October 19, 2017, focused on Big Ideas 4 and 5. This week we are publishing the final three resources from our content team members which each focus on Big Idea 6.

In our last news post we looked at resources that focused on teaching chemical equations. Now we are moving on to lessons and activities that can be used to support a unit plan for teaching stoichiometry. This includes the following topics: setting up stoichiometry calculations, determining limiting and excess reactants, and calculating percent yield.

It might only be January, but AP Chemistry teachers are starting to think about the May exam date and are putting together their review strategies. We recently posted a new classroom lesson plan that will help prepare your students for the AP exam.

In our last news post we looked at resources that focused on writing chemical names and formulas. Now we are moving on to lessons and activities that can be used to support a unit plan for teaching chemical equations.

Lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations that could be used to support a unit plan for chemical names and formulas.

From December 5th - December 20th, AACT will highlight an AACT member benefit that's sure to help you teach chemistry with holiday glee.

AACT members now have access to 25 ACS Publications articles each year. This month we are featuring a hands-on student activity from the July 2016 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education titled, Teaching Beer’s Law and Absorption Spectrophotometry with a Smart Phone: A Substantially Simplified Protocol by Thomas S. Kuntzleman and Erik C. Jacobson.

PAEMST are the nation’s highest honors for K-12 STEM teaching and have been awarded to over 4,700 teachers since the program began in 1983.

Thanksgiving has passed and holiday decorations are starting to pop up all around us. Here are a few AACT winter and holiday themed classroom activities that you can use with your students in the coming months. Enjoy the upcoming winter break!

This includes the topics that cover bonding basics, covalent, ionic and metallic bonding and properties, Lewis Structures, molecular geometry, polarity and intermolecular forces.

A hands-on student activity from the September 1998 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education titled, Equilibrium: A Teaching/Learning Activity by Audrey H. Wilson.

Here are a few AACT classroom activities that you might use to take care of the candy while teaching chemistry concepts.

Lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations that could be used to support a unit plan for the periodic table. This plan includes the topics of the structure of the periodic table and periodic trends.

An Overview of the first three AP Chemistry resources from the AP Chemistry Content Writing Team is given in this post.

This news item explores AACT resources to help teach a Chemistry Basics unit.

Lessons, activities, labs, projects, videos, simulations, and animations that can be used to support a unit plan for atomic structure.

A collectioin of elementary, middle, and high school resources to use during National Chemistry Week 2017.

The article describes a guided inquiry activity based on a density bottle.

Classroom resources that can be used to teach a unit on chemical measurements: percent compostion, metric units, accuracy, precision, percent error, density, scientific notation, significant figures, and unit conversion.

Past AACT President Barbara Sitzman reflects on the progress of AACT while looking forward to its future.

Next week, AACT turns three! To celebrate, we'll be selecting five members in good standing who joined during each year of AACT's operation to receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

The study described in this article used computer models to help students make connections between macroscopic, microscopic, and chemical symbols for ten common high school chemistry topics.

AACT is excited to announce that in partnership with ACS Publications, members now have access to 25 articles a year from ACS Journals, ACS eBooks, and the Global Enterprise edition of C&EN.

Please note, members will not be able to log in to the website from 6PM ET Friday, June 16 to 5PM ET Saturday, June 17.