Second-year chemistry courses provide unique challenges and opportunities for teachers and their students. Although advanced placement (AP) courses are parallel in content and expectations to introductory college courses, the setting is quite different-for example, length of class periods (which is often less than 60 minutes) or the challenge of laboratory preparation (without professional assistants). Teachers of second-year courses that do not involve AP credit face the same situations. This column provides a forum for sharing successful and innovative approaches that address the unique demands of teaching advanced high school chemistry courses.

Because this is a new column there are not examples to which prospective authors can refer. Authors should contact the feature editor to discuss their ideas before submitting the completed manuscript to the JCE office in Madison. Manuscripts that are limited to the description of an experiment will not be considered for this feature. Those who wish to submit an experiment should familiarize themselves with the requirements for this type of article. However, manuscripts that describe how an experiment or set of experiments has successfully been incorporated into an AP or second year chemistry course will be considered.