Second Year and AP Chemistry
edited by John Fischer
Ashwaubenon High School, 2391 Ridge Road, Green Bay, WI 54304-5093
Email: fischer@netnet.net
Phone: 414-492-2955, Ext. 2020

About John Fischer

Certified in chemistry, math, and physics, John is in his 21st year of teaching at the high school level. He currrently teaches chemistry, second- year chemistry, and physics at Ashwaubenon High School in Wisconsin. He is a member of the National Science Teachers Association, the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers, and the Wisconsin Math Council. For fun, John enjoys playing around with new technology, reading, planning his prairie and gardens, and spending the afternoons with his girls, Callie (3) and Megan (1).

Articles

Goal

The goal of this feature column is to provide innovative approaches for teaching advanced high school chemistry courses.

Mission Statement

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 (see 1996, 73, A311). 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.

Articles Published

Process Development in the Teaching Laboratory by Leonard C. Klein and Susanne M. Dana; p745 (Jun 1998).

Modeling Nuclear Decay: A Point of Integration between Chemistry and Mathematics by Kent J. Crippen and Robert D. Curtright; p1434 (Nov 1998).

Authentic Research within the Grasp of High School Students by Annis Hapkiewicz; p1212 (Sep 1999).

Determination of the Fundamental Electronic Charge via the Electrolysis of Water by Brittany Hoffman, Elizabeth Mitchell, Petra Roulhac, Marc Thomes, and Vincent M. Stumpo; p95 (Jan 2000).

Experiments with Aspirin by Londa L. Borer and Edward Barry; p354 (Mar 2000).

The Cost of Converting a Gasoline-Powered Vehicle to Propane. A Practical Review Problem for Senior High School or Introductory Chemistry by Michael P. Jansen; p1578 (Dec 2000).

Modeling the Drug Discovery Process: The Isolation and Biological Testing of Eugenol from Clove Oil by William H. Miles and Patricia M. Smiley; p90 (Jan 2002).

Putting Reaction Rates and Collision Theory in the Hands of Your Students by Andy Evenson; p822 (Jul 2002).

Classroom Research: GC Studies of Linoleic and Linolenic Fatty Acids Found in French Fries by Janice P. Crowley, Kristen L. DeBoise, Megan R. Marshall, Hannah M. Shaffer, Sara Zafar, Kevin A. Jones, Nick R. Palko, Stephen M. Mitsch, Lindsay A. Sutton, Margaret Chang, Ilana Fromer, Jake Kraft, Jessica Meister, Amar Shah, Priscilla Tan, and James Whitchurch; p824 (Jul 2002).

Using a Datalogger to Determine First-Order Kinetics and Calcium Carbonate in Eggshells by Martin M. F. Choi and Pui Shan Wong; p859 (Jun 2004).

The Reaction Quotient Is Unnecessary To Solve Equilibrium Problems by Paul S. Matsumoto; p406 (Mar 2005).

The Importance and Efficacy of Using Statistics in the High School Chemistry Laboratory by Paul S. Matsumoto; p1649 (Nov 2006).

Instrumental Analysis in the High School Classroom: UV–Vis Spectroscopy by Walt Erhardt; p1024 (Jun 2007).