It’s the holiday season right now and there is so much going on.  I know in my own life, besides work, I have holiday shopping to do (some online, some I have to do in store), I’ve got my own kids’ friends’ birthday parties to shuttle my kids to, parent teacher conferences in the next […]

  Can you believe it?  Some of us are already gearing up to go back to school in a week or two weeks… or a month from now.  (I know I know, some of you are still chilling on the beach somewhere, but stay with me because you won’t want to miss out on this […]

What’s one of the hardest topics to teach in chemistry?  Quantum numbers!!  It’s really difficult for students to understand – so much of it is based on quantum mechanics and physics principles that are beyond the scope of a high school chemistry course. Here is a creative activity you could have students complete at the […]

  I took a poll recently and asked teachers what the hardest topic for them is to teach and a bunch of readers wrote in that compound naming and chemical formula writing is the hardest topic to make fun!  This inspired me to create this easy to implement but fun game for compound naming and […]