News & Updates

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.

Are you planning to attend the 6th Annual Stem Forum & Expo hosted by NSTA in Kissimmee/Orlando, FL on July 12–14, 2017? AACT will be there too. Here's a list of our planned activities.

Join AACT at the ChemEd Conference in Brookings, South Dakota from July 23–27.

Information about the upcoming summit.

More AACT resources you can use to teach AP chemistry.

What do you do with students after the AP Chemistry exam? We offer a few suggestions.

Sign the Chemistry Classroom Safety Cleanup Pledge, and commit to spending a few hours at the end of the school year to safety and cleanup.

Earn money and contribute to the AACT resource library! We're looking for three teachers to create new AP chemistry resources, and two teachers to focus on the Periodic Table (K-8, and HS). Learn more and apply!