JCE February 2009 (Volume 86 Number 2) Table of Contents


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February 2009
Vol. 86 No. 2

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
Documenting the Value of Education		139
	John W. Moore

Especially for High School Teachers
"The Sky's the Limit" Thinking		141
	Erica K. Jacobsen

Commentary
No More Pencils, No More Books. 2008 George C. Pimentel Award		142
	Richard N. Zare

Report
Charting a Course for Chemistry Education		145
	Mary M. Kirchhoff and Richard N. Zare

Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances. Tunnel Study Indicates Policies Reduce PAH Levels; Outside the Tunnel: Air Pollution on a Personal Level		146
	Angela G. King

From Past Issues
Robert Boyle: The Founder of Modern Chemistry		148
	Kathryn R. Williams

Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: Our Atmosphere in the Year of Planet Earth		150
	Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon

Reports from Other Journals: News from Online
News from Online: Stratospheric Chemistry		153
	Lynn Diener

Report
A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration		156
	Lynn Diener and Jordan Acker Anderson

Chemists Celebrate Earth Day 2009: Air—The Skys the Limit
JCE Resources for Chemistry and the Atmosphere: An Update		158
	Erica K. Jacobsen

National Historic Chemical Landmarks: A Resource To Make Chemistry Real		161
	Judah Ginsberg and Erica K. Jacobsen

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Platinum(IV) Chloride		162
	Jay A. Young

CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Platinum		163
	Jay A. Young

News & Announcements		164

The Information Page		168

Letters
Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles		169
	Liberato Cardellini

Letters
Author Reply: Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles		169
	J. Dudley Herron

Book & Media Reviews
Write Like a Chemist: A Guide and Resource (Marin S. Robinson, Fredericka L. Stoller, Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, and James K. Jones)		170
	Jeffrey Kovac

Book & Media Reviews
Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research (Diane M. Bunce and Renée S. Cole, eds.)		171
	Jeffrey Kovac

Advertising in This Issue		172

Out of the Editor's Basket		173


Chemistry for Everyone

Teaching Chemistry Using October Sky		177
	James G. Goll, Lindsay J. Wilkinson, and Dolores M. Snell

JCE Concept Connections
Looking Up		180
	Bernadette A. Caldwell

Connecting Element Names with the Names of U.S. Towns		181
	Nicholas C. Thomas


In the Classroom

Resources for Student Assessment
Fluorine Compounds and Dental Health: Applications of General Chemistry Topics		185
	Gabriel Pinto


In the Laboratory

Revisiting History: Encountering Iodine Then and Now. A General Chemistry Laboratory To Observe Iodine from Seaweed		206
	M. Farooq Wahab

Using Soda Cans To Teach Physical Science Students about Density		209
	Michael J. Sanger, Teari C. Humphreys, and Mark M. LaPorte

Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage with Sulfate Reducing Bacteria		216
	James Hauri and Laurel A. Schaider

Measurement of Ozone Emission and Particle Removal Rates from Portable Air Purifiers		219
	Stephen A. Mang, Maggie L. Walser, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, and John M. Laux

JCE Classroom Activity
[#100] How Heavy Is a Balloon? Using the Ideal Gas Law		224A
	Bettie Obi Johnson and Henry Van Milligan

Exploration of SO₂ Scrubbers: An Environmental Chemistry Project		225
	Amber L. Schilling, Phyllis A. Leber, and Claude H. Yoder


Research: Science and Education

Chemical Education Research
Design and Validation of an Instrument To Assess Metacognitive Skillfulness in Chemistry Problem Solving		240
	Melanie M. Cooper and Santiago Sandi-Urena


On the Web

JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Chem Map: A Geographic Information System Web Page for Chemical Education		255
	Benjamin R. Ayres, William Garrick, Savyasaachi Murthy, Nehal Sanghvi, Amit Kulkarni, and Scott M. Reed

JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Volatile Organic Compounds		256
	William F. Coleman

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