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Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Reacting Safely
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers the safety of hazardous chemicals....
Journal Article
Safer Science: Avoiding Irritants in the Lab
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue gives guidelines for using irritants safely....
eBook
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
Transform your chemistry labs with this guide to argument-driven inquiry. Designed to be much more authentic for instruction than traditional laboratory activities, the investigations in this book give high school students the opportunity to work the...
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Kitchen Chemistry and Safety
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers guidelines for household chemical use....
Journal Article
Incorporating Models Into Science Teaching to Meet the Next Generation Science Standards
Discover what the NGSS has to say about the proper use of models in the middle school classroom....
Journal Article
Science 101: What causes surface tension?
This column focuses on background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s column, learn about surface tension....
Book Chapter
The title of this chapter is a compact way of saying that it covers two separate branches of chemistry. The first is electrochemistry and the second is the interaction of light with matter. An entire chapter could be spent on each of these areas, but...
Book Chapter
This is the second chemistry book in the Stop Faking It! series—the first one is Chemistry Basics. This book introduces new concepts and expands on many of the concepts presented in the first book, hence the author felt it would be helpful to begi...
Book Chapter
This chapter is about states of matter and a section of chemistry called thermodynamics which is the inspiration (or lack thereof) for the chapter title. The chapter might seem just a bit disconnected from the content in the rest of the book, but it�...
Book Chapter
To begin this chapter, you need to picture electrons in atoms as residing in orbitals—those fuzzy things that can be spherical, dumbbell-shaped, or even ring-shaped. The author addresses orbitals and why they’re fuzzy and then deals with how the ...