We’ve all been there—you spend time preparing an ionization energy worksheet (or searching for a free one online), expecting it to solidify student understanding and provide a source of reference...
Teaching high school chemistry often feels like teaching math in disguise. If you've ever thought, "I didn’t realize I signed up to be a math teacher!"—you’re not alone. Using mathematics and...
You just finished teaching a lesson and you're feeling really great about it. You've led a discussion and engagement was okay. You're sure your students are "getting it" so you try to go deeper. You...
If you’re a high school chemistry teacher, chances are you’ve leaned on lecturing, notes, rote memorization, and drill practice using octet rule worksheets to teach the octet rule concept and...
Surely, you’ve encountered that classic classroom question: “Why do we even have to learn this?” Whether it’s recently come from this year’s classroom or your own distant memories as a student,...
As a visual learner, chemistry always came naturally to me because it's a subject where abstract concepts are brought to life through models. Chemical...
Teaching periodic trends like atomic radius, ionization energy, and electronegativity can feel like a repetitive cycle of definitions, drills, and practice. Many high school chemistry teachers stick...
Teaching the Bohr model is often where the journey of understanding chemical change begins in high school chemistry. Using this Bohr model activity as part of a larger inquiry-based science lesson...