| JCE offers a wealth of materials for teaching and learning chemistry that you can explore at JCE Online. In the list below, Arrietta Clauss of the Editorial Staff suggests additional resources for teaching using real-world topics that are available through JCE.
Instructors often look for real-world topics that interest students when designing labs and preparing lectures. The chemistry associated with drugs is a fertile area. Manta and co-workers focused on benzimiazole drugs in their lab. Kittredge and co-workers examined acne medication. The archives of the Journal can be a resource for interesting drug-related activities to enhance student learning. The following articles show how drugs are used in unique ways:
As a literature study: Mentoring an Undergraduate Research Student in the Structural and Nonstructural Properties of Drugs
As a short course for high school students: Got Bio? A Short Course Introducing Students to the Applications of Biochemistry
As a writing assignment for college students: Student Perceptions of the Benefits of a Learner-Based Writing Assignment in Organic Chemistry
As an analytical lab: Quantitative HPLC Analysis of Rosmarinic Acid in Extracts of Melissa officinalis and Spectrophotometric Measurement of Their Antioxidant Activities
As a forensic lab: The Mysterious Death: An HPLC Lab Experiment: An Undergraduate Forensic Lab
As a synthetic lab: Keeping Your Students Awake: Facile Microscale Synthesis of Modafinil, a Modern Anti-Narcoleptic Drug
In Reports from Other Journals by Angela King: Research Advances: A Simple Method for Making Lilliputian Cups; Uncovering a New Reason Why Patients Respond Differently to the Same Drug Dose; A New Look at Bacterial Infections
Information about pharmacueticals can also be found in other areas of JCE Online, including:
In Hal’s Picks of the Month (a monthly feature in which Hal Harris recommends readings for teachers of chemistry and related sciences): The Mosquito Killer by Malcome Gladwell—Hal’s Pick in July 2001
In Project Chemlab (an online, searchable, annotated database of laboratories published in the Journal): search the database using the PHARM keyword.
All articles from Volume 1 to the current issue are available in full-text PDF at JCE Online: Browse by year, month, and page, or choose title and author searching of all issues of JCE.
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