Are you suddenly taking your General Chemistry course online because of the coronavirus? Although I’ve mostly been posting about photography recently, I do have (MWF) worksheets for General Chemistry I and II, which are available free from this website. You… Continue Reading
Introduction. This post is for professors who might be considering flipping their classrooms. The tips and tricks below I developed while teaching General Chemistry to freshmen for eight years at Angelo State University. Of course, some, if not most of… Continue Reading
In a post on Flipped Chemistry May 2017, “What’s Your Style“. I invited members of the Flipped Chemsitry community to answer questions about their flipping style with the promise that I would summarize the results at a later date. About… Continue Reading
It’s a beautiful day in the land of Flipped Chemistry. The students arrive with bright eyes and inquiring minds. They’ve done the reading, achieved a basic mastery of the concepts, and are now ready to polish their newly-won knowledge in… Continue Reading
It’s fall. It’s Monday morning. The semester is fresh. The sleepy faces in front of you are staring up with trepidation, with hope, or with quiet expectancy. For most of them it is their very first college class. Guess what?… Continue Reading
A few semesters back, a student sent an email to one of my faculty explaining that “I’m really good at algebra, it’s just that chemistry algebra that gets me.” I had always interpreted that statement as a frustration with the… Continue Reading
I have been named a community editor for the MacMillan Flipped Chemistry Community. If you have flipped your chemistry class, are interested in flipping, or just curious, then you owe it to yourself to check out Flipped Chemistry. It is… Continue Reading
I teach General Chemistry with a flipped classroom. In class, the students work in groups to complete worksheets that cover the ideas of the day. I am making these worksheets available free to teaching professionals. The Flipped General Chemistry page… Continue Reading
I polled the students in my flipped General Chemistry II class to see what they found useful for their studies. At the beginning of the Spring 2015 semester, we made a list of things they could do to help themselves… Continue Reading
Apparently, the suspicion that students can’t learn unless we professors speak knowledge to them is still very much with us.