News & Updates

Welcome to my first of many posts to come! Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Sherri Rukes and I am the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) High School Ambassador for the 2016 – 2017 school year.

AACT offers its members many resources to make interdisciplinary connections. In this post, we’ll take a look at resources that connect chemistry with geology and earth science.

I am looking forward to a great year with my students, as well as a productive year as President of AACT. Here are a few meeting highlights.

The AACT High School Classroom Resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a Gas Laws unit plan for your classroom.

The AACT High School Classroom Resource library and multimedia collection has everything you need to put together a Periodic Table unit plan for your classroom.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach thermodynamics for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach atomic structure for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT in your classroom after the AP exam.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach chemical reactions and eqautions for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach electrochemistry for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach reaction energy for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach equilibrium for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach periodic trends for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach acid and base titrations for AP students.

Here's how you can use AACT in your classroom to introduce reaction rates.

Ryan Johnson shares his takeaways from HS Chemistry Teachers Day at the ACS national meeting in Denver 2015.

Science Coaches is an amazing opportunity for AACT members. Here's why you should participate.

When students don’t see the connection between the content and activities of their classes and their future lives, they question what’s happening and what we, as teachers, ask them to do. It is an unhealthy perspective if we want to keep students both connected and motivated.

Here's how you can use AACT resources to teach NGSS.

Fortunately for today’s chemistry teacher, we live in the golden age of internet-based resources that can provide the visual heavy lifting

I came up with the following time-saving method for randomly grouping students for labs or group activities using the periodic table.

Here are some things we like to focus on during the first few weeks of chemistry class.

Here's some starting points for incorporating NGSS into your classroom.

Today, we’re thrilled to advance that vision through the formal launch of AACT.