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Cover
April 2004
Vol. 81 No. 4


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Exciting Chemistry and Chemical Education455
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Use the Journal To Share457
Diana S. Mason
Chemistry Everywhere. The 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Iowa State University, July 18-22, 2004 458
K. A. Burke, Mark Freilich, Thomas J. Greenbowe, and William S. Harwood
Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Spring 2004462
Steve Long
Ask the Historian
The Origin of Vinyl464
William B. Jensen
Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher: Chemistry and Physics Teachers Have a Lot in Common466
Roy W. Clark
Silver478
Jay A. Young
Calcium479
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements481
The Information Page484
Letters
Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant485
Todd P. Silverstein
Letters
Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant: Author Reply485
José E. Cortés-Figueroa
Letters
How Students Use Scientific Instruments To Create Understanding: CCD Spectrophotometers. Can We Afford Affordances?486
Roy W. Clark
Letters
A Simple Way To Determine the Composition of a Binary Mixture?487
P. K. Thamburaj
Corrections
Correction re: J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81, 65487
Book and Media Reviews
The Science of Cooking (Peter Barham)488
Cheryl Baldwin Frech
Book and Media Reviews
The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table (Richard Morris)489
Daniel Berger
Book and Media Reviews
The Chemcraft Story: The Legacy of Harold Porter (John Tyler)489
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics (Kevin M. Dunn)490
Michael S. Matthews
Book and Media Reviews
Advertising in This Issue492
Out of the Editor's Basket493

 Chemistry for Everyone
The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Autopsy in Blue497
Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt
Bringing History to the Classroom: Spoofs about Problems in Obtaining Research Grants503
Sidney Toby
Chemistry and Song: A Novel Way To Educate and Entertain507
Cory C. Pye

 In The Classroom
Using Science Fiction To Teach Thermodynamics: Vonnegut, Ice-nine, and Global Warming509
Charles A. Liberko
The Big Picture: A Classroom Activity for Organic Chemistry513
Thomas Poon
Organic Chemistry Wordsearch515
Terry L. Helser
Functional Group Wordsearch517
Terry L. Helser
Exothermic Bond Breaking: A Persistent Misconception523
William C. Galley

 In the Laboratory
Second-Year and AP Chemistry
Isolation of Copper from a 5–Cent Coin. An Example of Electrorefining530
Steven G. Sogo
Color My Nanoworld544A
Adam D. McFarland, Christy L. Haynes, Chad A. Mirkin, Richard P. Van Duyne, and Hilary A. Godwin

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
"We Actually Saw Atoms with Our Own Eyes". Conceptions and Convictions in Using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in Junior High School558
Hannah Margel, Bat-Sheva Eylon, and Zahava Scherz

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Featured Molecules
The Big Picture 604
William F. Coleman
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