Presents a 30-word wordsearch puzzle on nucleotide sequences used in proteins in terrestrial organisms. (YDS)

Presents a 41-word wordsearch puzzle on describing electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation. (YDS)

Describes the "Name Game" in which students find out hidden information by asking questions of other participating students. Can be used for a variety of topics and test reviews. (YDS)

Describes an educational game in which students get the opportunity to review Lewis structures and molecular geometries through problem solving activities as a team. (YDS)

Presents an online trivia game on laboratory safety. (YDS)

Describes an organic functional group card deck developed to help students visualize the structures of 13 common organic functional groups. (YDS)

Presents a spiral puzzle to test students' ability to remember the names of organic reactions and reagents. (YDS)

Discusses the use of demonstrations as a teaching method to intrigue students to do chemistry and identifies reasons to do and not to do demonstrations in science classrooms. Explains how to plan and conduct a demonstration and presents a sample demonstration on the role of indicators in distinguishing acids and bases. (Contains 25 references.)…

Describes a classroom demonstration supported by the guided-inquiry experience that focuses on separation techniques and other solvent-dependent processes, such as reaction-solvent selection. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Describes an easily implemented method that allows the generation and analysis of graded multiple-choice examinations. The technique, which uses standard functions in user-end software (Microsoft Excel 5+), can also produce several different versions of an examination that can be employed to prevent plagiarism. (MM)

Demonstrates some of the chemistry of chlorine on a microscale about the size of a water droplet. Chlorine gas was prepared from an acidified bleach solution in a plastic petri dish. Provides suitable hands-on experience for students at the secondary-school level. (MM)

A low-cost, low-tech colorimeter was constructed from a film canister. The student-constructed colorimeter was used to show the Beer-Lambert relationship between absorbance and concentration and to calculate the value of the molar absorptivity for permanganate at the wavelength emission maximum for an LED. Makes comparisons between this instrument…

Presents personal experiences of being in the position of interim dean and having to consider faculty, students, and policies. Recommends administrative positions as possible career opportunities for chemistry faculty. (YDS)

Explains the benefits of including polymer topics in both graduate and undergraduate physical chemistry courses. Provides examples of how to use rubberlike elasticity to demonstrate some of the general and thermodynamic concepts including equations of state, Carnot cycles and mechanochemistry, gel collapse, energy storage and hysteresis, and…

Describes equations of state as a supplement to an introductory thermodynamics undergraduate course. Uses rubber-elastic materials (REM) which have strong analogies to the concept of an ideal gas and explains the molar basis of REM. Provides examples of the analogies between ideal gas and REM and mathematical analogies. (Contains 22 references.)…