Chemistry Solutions

Resource Feature

A Cracking Good Reaction

Eliminate safety concerns of cracking hydrocarbons in a classroom setting by doing the reaction with a microscale set up.

Classroom Commentary

Getting into Action

A veteran teacher shares insight on how to align objectives with learning activities and resources.

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Classroom Commentary

AP Chemistry for All

AP Chemistry should be open to any student who meets the bare-minimum prerequisites and is willing to take on a rigorous, challenging course.

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Classroom Commentary

Access to Opportunity: Limitations to Equity in Science Education

Access to quality science education varies greatly for students across the nation, creating gaps that restrict options for many students in postsecondary education and careers. Commitment to quality science education, supported by creative, collaborative efforts with community partners, is essential to narrow these access gaps for the good of our students and our nation.

Nuts & Bolts

Uncovering Student Thinking through the Science Literacy Framework

You can borrow tricks of the trade from literacy to create dynamic lessons to increase student understanding.

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Nuts & Bolts

Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement

Increase student engagement and promote critical-thinking skills through positive student–teacher relationships, chemical demonstrations, and student discussions.

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Nuts & Bolts

Learning Electron Configuration via POGIL

Are your students struggling with learning electron configurations? This POGIL activity can help.

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Nuts & Bolts

Demonstrations and Good Pedagogy

Given recent accidents involving methanol, are traditional, teacher-performed, passive-student demonstrations best?

In My Element

My Late Love of Chemistry

My relationship with chemistry changed as I began teaching. I am one of two science teachers at the junior high and high school in my rural public school in Russia, OH.

Editorial

It's All Right if You Don't Know, Just Be Safe!

Safety is always a primary focus for AACT. Every activity available on our website has a section devoted to safety. Some precautions may seem obvious, but they are there to avoid incidents like the ones we’ve recently heard about.

Simulation

Comparing Attractive Forces

In the November 2014 issue, students explore the different attractive foreces between pairs of molecules by dragging the "star" image. In the accompanying activity, students investigate different types of intermolecular forces (London dispersion and dipole-dipole). In the analysis that follows the investigation, they relate IMFs (including hydrogen bonding) to physical properties (boiling point and solubility).

Chemistry Fun

Chemistry Fun

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