What Are JCE Classroom Activities?

JCE Classroom Activities are inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on activities that can be used in the classroom, the laboratory, at home, or in an outreach setting. They are generally intended to be fun and thought-provoking introductions to new ideas or topics, to spark discussion, and to lead to further study and experimentation. Many can also be used as a culminating activity to finish a unit topic. Most of the activities can be performed using materials commonly found at home or purchased from grocery and hardware stores. The intended audience is high school students, but with minor modifications, many are also appropriate for elementary, middle school, and college students. Each activity is self-contained and consists of two pages: Instructor Information and a Student Activity. The Instructor Information presents all the background materials needed by the instructor to knowledgeably lead the activity. The Student Activity is ready to print, photocopy, and use as a student handout.

What Is on the JCE Classroom Activities CD?

The CD conveniently packages the first 50 activities in the series as PDF files along with any online supplements that originally accompanied each individual activity. Online supplements include QuickTime movies, photos, and additional information and experiments to try. All activities have been categorized in three different ways: science education content standards, keywords, and outreach use.

How Can I Use This CD?

The CD is designed for use by chemistry teachers, outreach facilitators, and home educators. It is like a World Wide Web site—you access it using an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. You can quickly and easily locate Activities on the CD that fit your needs using any of several listings.

• 1 list of all 50 Activities organized chronologically in order of when they originally appeared in JCE
• 12 lists of Activities organized by science education content standards
• 39 lists of Activities organized by keywords
• 2 lists of Activities appropriate for outreach in a booth or a workshop

Price and Ordering

Price for this CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows: Single user on a single machine: $19.95 U.S./$29.95 non-U.S. Discount of 10% for orders of 10–49 copies; 15% for orders of 50 or more copies. Additional prices for libraries and networks as well as other information may be obtained by contacting JCE Software, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396; phone; 608/262-5153 or 800/991-5534 (U.S.); fax: 608/265-8094; email. An order form is inserted in this issue that also provides prices and other ordering information. Information about all JCE Software publications (including abstracts, descriptions, updates) is available from our Web site.

You may also purchase the JCE Classroom Activities #1–50 CD-ROM at the JCE Online Store.