Buffers can be challenging. Over the years, I have found that kids tend to get stuck in understanding buffers more than they should. This...

We all have them, favorite labs. You know the one that you can’t wait to do again next year. The Rocket Lab is that one for me. I will...

Have you had an experience like this? You just gave an articulate, succinct and accurate description of a chemical process. You chose...

Your classroom might just be too quiet. The longer I have taught chemistry, the louder my room has gotten. And not because I’m losing...

How many different ways have you introduced periodic trends? It’s been many for me. This year may have been the best. It balanced...

To celebrate Mole Day or not to celebrate, that is the question. If you go online right now you can make yourself feel pretty bad...

Le Chatelier’s Principle is easy. To you. But for whatever reason, it can take kids a while to see how perturbations to a system in...

Here we go. Parent teacher conference time. For some of us, our blood pressure shoots sky high, we develop a twitch, and our eyes begin...

We should all embrace the redneck side of teaching. Simple. Functional. Unconventional. Odd. Even us hoity-toity chemistry teachers...

Are your lab reports too big? Probably. Over the past few years, I have taken a hard look at my lab reports from AP chemistry down to...

I’ve been using the flame test lab in the wrong unit. Have you? For years, I’ve always used the flame test lab in my grade-level...

You might do it too. The teacher before you and the teacher before them had a unit at the beginning of the year to teach dimensional...

In your students’ minds, significant figures are not significant. In fact, they are an insignificant inconvenience. Just a random thing...

Your students think they are clean in the lab. They aren’t. Every one of us, during the lab safety talk, mentions keeping a clean and...

I’ve been overcomplicating the way I teach periodic trends. Have you? The goal of teaching periodic trends on the table is to allow the...

You are asking the wrong questions to the kids who are coming into your classroom on the first day of school. How do I know? Because we...

I love the show “Alone” on the History Channel. It is one of my dreams to be on the show. Facing off against the unknown wild, trying...

And now for the notes from the final day of APSI chemistry 2023. 1. The Nernst equation and deviations are primarily tested...

Welcome to day 3 of the APSI 2023 in chemistry. Here are the top takeaways from today’s session. 1. In a buffer system, the weak...

Another day at the AP Chemistry Summer Institute completed. Here are my highlights from today. 1. Show animations for dynamic...