[Note: Some of these pictures were posed.
These are not really chemistry teachers in lab without goggles!]

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Angelica, Scott, Claire	Chuck	Rishita, Claire
Ruth	Darryl, John	Debbie, Brian, Jennifer, Chuck, Scott
Carmen, Kim	Jennifer, Jennifer	Jennifer
Erica	Ruth, Jennifer	John
Debbie, Jennifer	Debbie, Jen--	Darryl
Claire	Claire, Rishita	Brian
Scott, Rishita	Paul	Angelica
Claire	Angelica, Kim, Claire, John	Rishita
Ruth, Jacque, Debbie	Debbie

The Participants

Angelica Apodaca	Paloma Valley High School	[email protected]
Darryl Benson	Loma Linda Academy	[email protected]
Jennifer Disney	La Cierra High School	[email protected]
Erica Eastman	Whittier Christian High School	[email protected]
John Hitchcock	Arrowhead Christian Academy	[email protected]
Claire Hong	Saugus High School	[email protected]
Jennifer Linden	Paloma Valley High School	[email protected]
Kim Magdaleno	La Serna High School	[email protected]
Scott Montgomery	Paloma Valley High School	[email protected]
Chuck Murphy	Paloma Valley High School	[email protected]
Carmen Olito	West Anchorage High School	[email protected]
Brian Rippet	Whittell High School	[email protected]
Jacque Saldamando	Rosary High School	[email protected]
Debbie Schurr	Ontario High School	[email protected]
Rishita Shah	North Hollywood High School	[email protected]
Debbie Stenger	Mt. Carmel High School	[email protected]
Ruth Vilchez	Bonita High School	[email protected]
Paul Groves	South Pasadena High School	[email protected]

Resources
Who Wants to be a Molionaire
This is a PowerPoint file that you can download at www.thecatalyst.com. Do a search for mole.

AP Questions and Worked out Answers from Harvey Gendreau
Here is the email from Harvey: "Still on the road and will not be back in Framingham until Aug 8th. Have everyone contact me at [email protected] and tell me their name, home or school email address, school name. I'll try to send them about the second week in Aug."

These will be a Microsoft Word file for each topic (Kinetics, Stoichiometry, Equations... etc. and an Extra .zip file that includes one of his favorite kinetics labs and the released multiple choice exams typed out in Microsoft Word. He also inlcudes great information about the number and difficulty of questions on the multiple choice exams. Amazing resource.

Univerity of Texas Homework Site
This is a site on which you can have students register for your class. The computer will generate and assign homework problems for your students. Each student gets different questions, so no copying of answers is possible. It is free (too good to be true?) I heard about this at the Iowa meeting (BCCE) and received details when I got home. Here is the URL for the U Texas Homework Site: http://hw.utexas.edu/instInst.html. My friend says "After you register the service will send you your password so that you can use the site. If you don't hear from someone in a timely fashion, e-mail them. I like this site. There are lots of questions and a variety of questions."

ChemEd'95 -- A Great Summer Meeting
I mentioned that on even-numbered years, there is a big summer chemistry meeting called the BCCE (Biennial Conference in Chemical Education). This past year it was at Iowa State University. On odd-numbered years, you can go to ChemEd. This year it is in Vancouver.

Oriental Trading Co. and Kipp Brothers
These vendors have inexpensive craft materials and toys. Both have web sites (www.orientaltraders.com and www.kippbro.com). Kipp Brothers sells "Laser Amazers" diffraction glasses for $15 for 50. Link to Oriental Trading Company. Link to Kipp Brothers.

www.chemfiesta.com
This site was mentioned as one with a lot of good materials. Check it out to see if anything applies to your class.

National Chemistry Olympiad
This is part of the American Chemical Society's web site. The multiple choice tests are useful as practice exams for both the NChO Competition in March as well as for AP practice. These exams are kind of heavy in organic. The National Exam each year also includes two open-ended laboratory questions. The older exams can be found on the Chem Team web site (link from chemmybear). I have sorted some of these by topic and use them as additional practice topic by topic. Look for these on my "Handouts by Chapter" list on my AP chemistry class's page.

Write up of Carmen's Version of the Electrochemistry Lab
I received a copy of this lab this Spring, I am glad I had an opportunity to see it in action. Click here for a copy [Word | Acrobat].

John's Chem Mystery Handout
We will pester John Hitchcock until he writes down his ideas for one of his end-of-the-year chemical mystery packets. He noted a handout that gave clues to an important address and phone number as the rate of burning of a candle (with a burning candle sitting on a balance) or the molar mass of some element, etc.

Handboiler Pictures
Here are pictures of Carmen & Rishita's Handboiler Distillation.

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After

Chemistry At Work on DVD
The video showing the alkali metals in water (Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) is supposed to be available from the American Chemical Society. I will try to find the purchase information. The only link I can find is for this CD ROM. Unfortunately, it does not state that the Periodicity of Alkali Metals movie is included.

Paul's List of 25 New Ideas
Here is my list [Word | Acrobat].

ChemMatters Magazine
This student magazine is an inexpensive resource produced four times a school year by the American Chemical Society. Issues are available online at www.acs.org as .pdf files. I am going to go back and see if I can find the issue about titrating the acids in peppers. A teacher's guide is available for the downloadable magazines. I am impressed with the informtion presented in these magazines. I am going to order myself a subscription and one for my other chemistry teacher as an early Christmas present.