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September 10, 2020 | Lab & Safety, Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Technology NGSS…What Materials Are Out There To Help?
For this session, we will be focusing on multiple tools that are available on the internet to help teach NGSS. We will be looking at places to find simulations, virtual labs and NGSS materials. There will be a variety of materials that we will go over, so you can develop a Chemistry course that fits your class needs including teaching Chemistry online.
August 25, 2020 | Lab & Safety, Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Technology Filling the Void: Options for Authentic Investigations in an Online or Hybrid Learning Environment
With the start of a new school year unlike any other, chemistry teachers will at some point need to decide the role of laboratory investigation within their new learning environment. Whether it’s hybrid or distance learning, our students still deserve opportunities to engage in the science practices that are at the core of quality science instruction. In this webinar, we will be focusing on two available options that have arguably the greatest potential for offering a legitimate approach toward authentic investigations in a digital environment—Pivot Interactives and ADI Online. Understanding what each platform has to offer in relation to your own needs will help your decision-making process and hopefully provide a sense of certainty within these uncertain times.
August 06, 2020 | Teaching Resources Classroom Resources for K-12 Teachers of Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
The Education Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) offers many resources and programs to help elementary science teachers, middle school physical science teachers, and high school chemistry teachers enhance their lessons. Join us and learn about the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT), our Chemistry in the Community textbook, ChemClubs, two K-8 websites, Inquiry in Action, and Middle School Chemistry, ChemMatters magazine, the Science Coaches program and Hach Grants.
August 04, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Virtual Summer Symposium: Inventing Green through Education
From ocean plastics to global warming, today’s sustainability challenges require innovative, sustainable solutions. There is a demand for changing how we make our products, and we must foster the next generation to create while thinking of degradation, see the solutions within nature, and not be afraid to fail when trying new ideas. In this session, hear from students and educators on why it’s important to create a sustainable future and tackle the world’s biggest societal challenges through chemical science and invention.
July 30, 2020 | Teaching Resources, Technology Virtual Summer Symposium: Chemistry Games
This symposium will focus on using games to teach chemical concepts, covering a gamut of topics from Lewis dots to NMR. The format of the games vary--some are played with cards and manipulatives, while others are playable online. If you are looking for creative ways to increase student motivation and understanding, this symposium will provide some exciting avenues for engaging students.
July 28, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Virtual Summer Symposium: Integrating Green Chemistry and Sustainability into Chemistry Education
This symposium is co-organized with Andy Dicks and Lloyd Bastin and will highlight the incorporation of green chemistry and sustainability principles throughout the chemistry curriculum as well as through co-curricular activities such as clubs, organizations and service-learning opportunities. The focus will be on green chemistry and sustainability materials and models rooted in the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry that are designed to educate high school, community college, four year college and graduate students. These materials will include classroom teaching modules/courses, learning methods, educational research, laboratory experiments and experiences, and the integration of toxicology into the chemistry curriculum. This session will highlight collaborations between K-12 educators and academic partners.
July 22, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Virtual Summer Symposium: Supporting All Students in the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry
This session will focus on classroom-tested strategies to engage all of your students in effective chemistry learning at the middle and high school levels. We'll cover strategies for English learners and special education students, share ways to improve student understanding via digital learning, and more. Participants will walk away with strategies and resources to help all of our students learn chemistry.
July 20, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Virtual Summer Symposium: Chemical Literacy Through Differentiation
Join us to discuss ways to differentiate instruction to increase literacy. Major topics will conclude finding and evaluating information scores, using and creating science comic books, teaching diverse learners, and implementing the chemistry triad. All presentations taking different approaches to deliver differentiation that you can use in your classroom to increase chemical literacy.
July 16, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Technology Virtual Summer Symposium: At-Home Activities and Resources for Teaching Chemistry Online
One thing all successful veteran chemistry teachers have in common is a full toolbox of ideas they can rely on when the unpredictable happens. Prepare for the 2020–2021 school year with help from some of the best of those veterans! They will share some of their favorite “at home” activities and resources for teaching online.
July 14, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Advanced Chemistry, Technology Virtual Summer Symposium: Teaching AP Chemistry Virtually
This session will focus on teaching AP chemistry online. AP teachers will share instructional tools, online activities, and laboratory options for teaching AP chemistry virtually this fall.
July 07, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Advanced Chemistry, Technology Virtual Summer Symposium: Simulations to Enhance Chemical Instruction
In order to gain understanding of chemical principles, students need to be exposed to concepts in multiple ways. Some simulations can be used to help students visualize chemistry at the particle level while others can be used to model laboratory procedures. In this symposia, various online simulations and accompanying lesson ideas will be shared that are versatile for both in person and online instruction.
May 12, 2020 | Teaching Resources How to create a 5E reading lesson using ChemMatters
Science teachers are being asked to incorporate more reading and writing into their lessons to support the development of students’ literacy. Toward this goal, teachers can use magazine articles that connect science concepts to the real world. In this session, we will explain how you can develop engaging 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) lesson plans based on articles in ChemMatters magazine or other media.
May 06, 2020 | Teaching Resources Science Coaches 2020
Science Coaches is a joint ACS and AACT educational outreach initiative dedicated to enhancing science skills in students across the United States. The program partners coaches (volunteer chemists) with AACT teacher members in elementary, middle, and high schools.
April 28, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources, Advanced Chemistry Laying the Groundwork: Supporting Potential AP & IB Students in an NGSS Course
It can be daunting. There is not a lot of traditional chemistry in the NGSS upon which to build an entire Chemistry course, certainly, many traditional topics are not explicitly mentioned in the standards. Many of us teachers are at different points in our understanding of what the NGSS are and what they represent and I have heard from many teachers who are asking for help and guidance.
April 21, 2020 | Advanced Chemistry Scoring AP Chemistry Free Response Questions – An AP Chemistry Mock Reading
In this webinar, you will experience how Readers are trained to score FRQs. Participants will be trained on the rubric for Question 1 from the 2018 AP Chemistry Operational Exam. Once trained, you will score actual student responses. Then we will go over which points would have been awarded at the Reading. By scoring a variety of student responses, you will see that the way students respond can make it easier, or harder, for the Reader to award points. And through this experience, you will gain confidence in your FRQ scoring abilities.
April 15, 2020 | Teaching Resources Brilliant idea: Einstein-Perspectives from Teacher Leaders on How to Build an Online Collaborative Learning Environment
The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship brings K-12 STEM educators together from across the country to tap into their experiences to shape and lead the conversation around STEM at a national level. During this webinar, Jill Latchana will lead a discussion where Einstein Fellows and alumni will share their methods for building successful online learning environments that foster collaboration.
April 09, 2020 | Teaching Resources Chemistry in Context: A Citizen-First Approach to Foster Student Engagement and Motivation
Students are the next generation of citizens who will need to deal with the consequences of today’s global challenges (i.e., climate change, air and water quality, nutrition). As such, all students need to understand basic chemistry principles to gauge the accuracy of media reports. In this webinar, we will present a strategy to introduce fundamental chemistry concepts through a context-first approach using the ACS textbook Chemistry in Context. With chemistry principles woven into discussions on a need-to-know basis, students can easily grasp how chemistry influences their everyday lives. We will describe how a variety of media (e.g., videos, simulations, labs, demos) can be used to initiate in-class discussions and assist students with retaining knowledge outside of the classroom.
April 02, 2020 | Teaching Resources The Chemistry Close Read
The chemistry close read was first inspired from reading the book, "Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It", by Kelly Gallagher. Five years later, the enthusiasm for the close read remains. The chemistry close read is an activity that brings relevance, engagement, and content to the chemistry class. This strategy helps students navigate and access challenging chemistry readings as well as introducing them to applications of chemistry. The close reading strategy slows down the reading process, which is helpful for students with little interest or enthusiasm for reading. Join us and learn about the process, hear strategies to help your students increase their science literacy, how to manage grading the close read, and explore a variety of articles that you can use with your chemistry classes.
March 25, 2020 | Teaching Resources Making Chemistry Visible With Magnets
Come see how Doug Ragan uses his colored magnetic circles and molecule magnets to enhance his students' understanding of the particulate level of chemistry. He is constantly finding new uses for them and they have served him well. Doug has used them to describe everything from simple solid, liquid, gas representations to balancing equations, formula writing, molecule building, and even to help his students write redox half reactions correctly. As Doug shares the many uses of the magnets, he hopes that you too will be able to enhance your lessons and your students’ understanding of chemistry through their use.
March 17, 2020 | Teaching Resources Teaching Climate Change with Chemistry Connections
This presentation will focus on which chemistry topics are essential to learning about climate change. The webinar will also focus on how to make the abstract concrete by integrating modeling and technology in their classrooms.
March 04, 2020 | Teaching Resources, Advanced Chemistry Helping Students Show What They Know – An AP Chemistry Review Webinar
Your students have worked hard all year to master the concepts of AP Chemistry. They have slogged through numerous problems, taken many exams, and completed laboratory work. Yet, many of them have trouble “putting it all together” when AP exam time comes. How can we best help them “show what they know”? This is the theme of this AACT AP Chemistry webinar. In this presentation, we will examine responses to several mock questions actual students have answered in the past several months. Answers to these questions will be enlightening as they will allow us to glean insights on how our students attack both conceptual and quantitative questions. Specifically, we hope also to see misconceptions that students often carry with them even after excellent instruction as well as both strong and weak versions of correct responses. By identifying “red flags” now, AP teachers will still have time in their reviews to remove misconceptions and promote clear presentation from their students when May finally arrives. Time will also be allotted to get suggestions on how to review those particularly thorny concepts for both teachers and students. Please join us for this presentation and discussion!
February 26, 2020 | Teaching Resources Student Opportunities from the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Learn about opportunities for the students in your classroom, including Chemistry Olympiad, Project SEED, and other programs from the American Chemical Society. The presenters will offer information on eligibility, getting started, and more.
February 19, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Teaching Chemistry in a Textbookless Classroom
In this webinar, the focus will be on how to gather resources, share those resources with students, and help students to see the flow of a course in a textbookless classroom. Different methods will be highlighted, including the use of LMS platforms, free online textbooks, and videos and simulations. In addition, techniques using principles of interactive notebooking will be presented.
February 12, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Teaching Methods and Resources to Help Assess Student Learning
This webinar highlights two strategies for formatively assessing students. The first is an exit ticket based on research that indicates students learn more by drawing an image than reading words. The second focuses on note-taking thinking routines devised by Ron Ritchhart, Harvard's Project Zero Principal Investigator. Both are guaranteed to increase understanding of your students and allow them to demonstrate their level of understanding.
February 06, 2020 | Teaching Methods, Teaching Resources Adjusting to Adjunct: Lessons Learned from Teaching High School Chemistry and College Chemistry as Adjunct Faculty
This past year, Ryan took an opportunity to work as adjunct chemistry faculty at a local college, while still teaching high school chemistry and AP Chemistry. While he knew to expect some differences between the two, he was surprised by what was different, and what was the same! He will be discussing how his experience has made him look at his teaching practices under a different lens, and how it has helped him develop his pedagogical approach to chemistry content.