We’re excited to have Ramsey Musallam present this week at Global Chemistry Department. He’s blogged extensively about his use of the Explore-Flip-Apply learning cycle in his AP Chemistry course. At Thursday’s meeting, he will describe what this looks like in…
Thursday, September 20: Join us for the first Global Chemistry Department meeting
The Global Chemistry Department will meet biweekly on Thursday nights at 9-10:00pm EST. Its an opportunity for chemistry teachers to meet for free, real-time professional development. Our first meeting will be this Thursday, Sept 20, and our first speaker is Corey…
Coming Soon: Global Chemistry Department
This summer #chemchat (a twitter chat for chemistry teachers) launched on Wednesday nights at 8:30-9:30pm EST. Its a great opportunity to tweet with fellow chemistry teachers about a specific topic (inquiry, project design, dimensional analysis, demos, etc) to talk about…
BCCE: Day 4 and 5 Recap
I got wrapped up in my excursion to WV, so I’m just getting around to posting about the final days of BCCE. WV is BEAUTIFUL, by the way. Day 4 was a big inquiry day. Most of the talks I…
BCCE: Day 3 Recap
Tuesday was a good day at BCCE. Highlights: I saw two talks on chemistry misconceptions. One dealt with oxidation-reduction reactions, and the issues some college students have using multiple representations to demonstrate their understanding of the reactions. Some issues seem…