Teach Limiting Reactants with Cookies

Teach Limiting Reactants with Cookies

This Teacher Tip comes to us from Cheri Alderman in Georgia. To make Limiting Reactants an easier idea for students to grasp, I always start with a Quick Lab that involves a chocolate chip recipe. The students have to figure out how many cookies they can make according to the given recipe...
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Teacher Tip: Whiteboard Assessments

Teacher Tip: Whiteboard Assessments

This Teacher Tip comes to us from Dayna Britton of Michigan. I use small white boards as a quick way to formatively assess student understanding. For example, if I want students to work through a Punnett square, rather than having them do it on paper, I have them each do it on a white...
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Teacher Tip: Culturally Relevant Teaching

From Brittany Garvin of Columbia, S.C. Ever wondered how to get ALL of your students interested in science? Well allow me to introduce a teaching technique that is guaranteed to work…it’s called culturally relevant teaching. In essence, culturally relevant teaching seeks to...
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Teacher Tip: Flaming Q-Tips

When you do flame tests, use Q-tips soaked in the salt solutions overnight. Set the Q-tips out for a few hours before the lab. As the water from the solution evaporates off of the Q-tip, the salt will begin to crust on the Q-tip. This makes a better flame test than the wet Q-tip and is...
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GIVEAWAY: Favorite Chemistry Joke

Post your favorite chemistry joke to be entered to win a Building Atoms and Isotopes App, Chemistry Formula App, Mystical Tree or Mystical Garden! Here are some to get you started: Atom:  I’d like to report a missing electron. Policeman:  Are you sure? Atom:  Yes, I’m positive! A...
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#NCW Trivia Day Five

Answer the question below to be entered to win a Building Atoms and Isotopes App, Chemistry Formula App, Mystical Tree or Mystical Garden! Name the foods you can make from these elements’ symbols: A) Sulfur Aluminum Molybdenum Nitrogen B) Tungsten Astatine Erbium   C) Sodium Carbon...
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