Discusses the new plans for the American Chemical Society for high school chemistry teachers. Among the plans are the establishment of an office of High School Chemical Education, creation of a High School Chemistry Teachers Committee, and increasing journal articles and teaching materials in the journal. (HM)

Discusses some issues related to chemistry curricula in liberal arts colleges. Among these issues are the nature of a liberal arts curriculum, content of chemistry course, teaching methods, technological aids to teaching, use of the laboratory, and the future of general chemistry teaching in the liberal arts colleges. (HM)

Describes several experimental results selected from typical inorganic and organic reaction systems, along with a brief description of the physical parameters needed to determine if a pressure increase will help solve a synthetic problem. (HM)

Discusses some basic principles regarding why a certain inorganic element (compound) is specifically required for a certain function in biological systems. (HM)

This paper is a summary of remarks made at a recent symposium on new directions in the teaching of physical chemistry. The author takes exception to the claims made for the International System of Units (SI). (HM)

Discusses some issues related to the use of the International System of Units (SI) in teaching chemistry. (HM)

Presents some problems for quantum chemistry courses based upon model pseudopotentials. Also includes some useful formulas and tables of parameters associated with these problems. (HM)

Presents a computer method for teaching chemical equilibrium concepts using material balance conditions and the minimization of the free energy. Method for the calculation of chemical equilibrium, the computer program used to solve equilibrium problems and applications of the method are also included. (HM)

Describes curriculum used by the Chemistry Department at the American University of Washington, D.C. in preparing and implementing a program to update two groups of women in order to prepare them to enter graduate school or return to the job market in chemistry. (HM)

Describes an interdisciplinary program in the areas of biochemistry, biology, and computer science offered at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to update 30 women in order to prepare them to return to the job market in chemistry. (HM)

Evaluates college students' understanding of chemistry as operationally defined by Bloom. The Test of Higher Cognitive Learning in Chemistry was administered to 488 students upon completion of a one-semester course in general chemistry. Significant differences were found among student mean scores at various cognitive levels. (HM)

Presents the following chemistry lecture demonstrations and experiments: (1) a versatile kinetic demonstration; (2) the Bakelite Demonstration; (3) applying Beer's law; and (4) entropy calculations. (HM)

Presents some ideas and demonstrations in college chemistry. (HM)

Presents a formulations laboratory project in which secondary school students attempt to prepare a common household product from laboratory chemicals. (HM)

Presents an explanation of the electron for secondary school chemistry teachers. Schrodinger's wave equation and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle are also discussed. (HM)