Describes an undergraduate chemistry course designed for prospective elementary school teachers. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)

Points out student struggles with the determination of empirical and molecular formulas and introduces a teaching approach to increase student understanding. Uses scenarios to present the experimental data before presenting the problem. (YDS)

Investigates the effects of web-based instructional materials on students' understanding of chemical concepts. Uses interviews with students, concept mapping, and a free-response survey for the study. (YDS)

Describes pigments and artists' colors from a chronological perspective. Explains how chemical analysis can be used to distinguish the differences between artists' palettes, identify the evolution of art, and lead to restoration of an art work. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Includes an annotated bibliography of articles featured in this journal on art, dyes, glass, pottery and ceramics, interdisciplinary courses in art and chemistry, light and color, metalwork, and music. (YDS)

Introduces a science activity in which students make and examine the characteristics of egg tempera painting. Includes both instructor information and a student activity sheet. (YDS)

Explains how three fundamental ideas in chemistry--the mole, the periodic table, and quantum numbers--should be introduced to students for better student understanding. (YDS)

Discusses how chemists describe an amount of material and provides a visual representation for the solution of typical stoichiometry problems. (YDS)

Points out the difficulties students have when they are expected to learn functional groups, which are frameworks for chemical and physical properties of molecules. Presents a classification key for functional groups categorized by 10 common functional groups. (YDS)

Explains Jung's personality types. Compares students' personality differences and investigates the relationship between personality types and achievement. (Contains 15 references.) (YDS)

Introduces the computer software program Learning and Understanding through Computer-based Interactive Discovery (LUCID) which is designed to increase student engagement in the learning process. Evaluates the effectiveness of LUCID on student attitudes and grades. (YDS)

Basic data collection can be used to provide information on what kind of teaching strategies can be used to teach students who are solving chemistry problems. Recommends using lesson scripts that challenge students to find the right answer. (Contains 35 references.) (YDS)

Explains the Lewis Theory and its role in teaching covalent bonding. Introduces valence method and molecular orbital method. (YDS)

Describes a laboratory experiment in which students identify 11 white solids readily available in drugstores and supermarkets. Investigates solubility, pH, copper reduction, evolution of carbon dioxide bubbles, formation of starch-iodine complex, and formation of an insoluble hydroxide. (YDS)

Describes a laser refractometry experiment to estimate the refractive index of various liquids. (YDS)