All textbooks are not created equal (though a few are very similar) As is typical in these sorts of workshops, I ended up with about 500 lbs of free textbooks. In addition to the typical (Zumdahl, Brown/LeMay) I got to…
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What I learned: Day 3 of AP Chemistry Workshop
Modeling Chemistry (or physics, or bio) seems to be the perfect prep for the new AP class When looking at the College Board’s recommendations for improving performance on this year’s Free Response Questions, some repeated themes include have students draw particle views…
What I learned: Day 2 of AP Chemistry Workshop
Drop Counters are AWESOME. When given the choice between spending 20+ minutes manually entering volume data every 1 mL, or sitting back and watching it the data graph itself in 3 minutes or less, I’m going with the latter. Not…
What I learned: Day 1 of AP Chemistry Workshop
There’s a lot of AP-level chemistry in a simple 4-ingredient baggie lab. Calcium chloride. Sodium hydrogen carbonate. Phenol Red. Water. A common first year chemistry lab, but incredibly useful in third quarter of an AP chemistry lab. Dissociation, hydrolysis, precipitation, neutralization…
Long time no post…
Is this thing still on? Much has changed in my life since I last posted. Rather than being overwhelmed by trying to including everything, I’ll just tell you what I’m doing for the rest of the summer. I’m currently attending…