JCE Online Journal of Chemical Education
 | Subscriptions  | Software Orders  | Support  | Contributors  | Advertisers  | 

JCE Print

JCE Digital Library

JCE Software

Only@JCE Online

About JCE


  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2001  > December  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
December 2001
Vol. 78 No. 12


 Chemical Education Today
News & Announcements1568
Editorial
Supporting High School Chemistry Teaching1567
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1569
J. Emory Howell
Nobel Centennial Essays
Nobel Centennial Essays: A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1901: Jacobus van't Hoff1570
Josh Van Houten
Report
Topics in Green Chemistry1577
Mary M. Kirchhoff
NSF Highlights
Divergence of Faculty Perceptions of General Chemistry and Problem Solving Skills1578
Thomas Holme
2YC3-- Celebrating 40 Years of Service to the Chemical Education Community1583
Frank Koch
Association Reports: CHED
Division of Chemical Education: News and Notices1584
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile: Asbestos1587
Jay A. Young
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Chemical Laboratory Information Profile: Petroleum Ether1588
Jay A. Young
The Information Page1592
Letters
Further Information on the Hazards of n-Hexane (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 587)1593
J. C. Jones
Letters
Further Information on the Hazards of n-Hexane (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 587)1593
Jay A. Young
Letters
Chemical Laboratory Information Profiles (CLIPs) (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 444)1593
Stanley H. Pine
Letters
On Concepts of Partial Volume and Law of Partial Volume (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 238-240)1594
David W. Miller
Letters
On Concepts of Partial Volume and Law of Partial Volume (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 238-240)1594
Myung-Hoon Kim
Letters
Visualizing the Photochemical Steady State with UV-Sensitive Beads (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 77, 648A-648B)1594
Jerry A. Bell
Letters
Beer's Law Revoked? (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 694)1595
Roy W. Clark
Letters
Beer's Law Revoked? (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 694)1595
Maureen Kendrick Murphy
Letters
Phototropic Reaction (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1386-1387)1596
Paul Rademacher
Letters
Phototropic Reaction (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1386-1387)1596
Addison Ault
Letters
Demonstrations with Nitrocellulose: Possible Further Pedagogic Value (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1449)1596
J. C. Jones
Letters
Demonstrations with Nitrocellulose: Possible Further Pedagogic Value (re J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 1449)1596
Edward G. Senkbeil
Corrections
Evaluating the Success of Hispanic-Surname Students in First-Semester General Chemistry (re J. Chem. Educ. 2001, 78, 256)1597
Diana Mason and Kathleen C. Mittag
Book and Media Reviews
Chemistry: The Molecular Science (by John W. Moore, Conrad L. Stanitski, and Peter C. Jurs)1598
Jack K. Steehler
Book and Media Reviews
The Lady Tasting Tea (by David Salsburg)1599
Tim Whitley
Book and Media Reviews
Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence (by Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers Jr.)1600
Anne T. Sherren
Book and Media Reviews
Structure and Bonding (by Jack Barrett)1600
Michael Laing
Book and Media Reviews
Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics (by Ashley H. Carter)1602
Frank Somer Jr.
Book and Media Reviews
Organic CD, Version 3.00 [CD-ROM] (by Bryan C. Sanctuary and Neil F. Woolsey)1603
Robert W. Holman
Advertising in This Issue1604
Out of the Editor's Basket1605

 Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Humic Acids: Marvelous Products of Soil Chemistry1609
Geoffrey Davies, Elham A. Ghabbour, and Cornelius Steelink
Stories and Anecdotes in the Chemistry Classroom1615
Deborah A. Folino
Placing Science into Its Human Context: Using Scientific Autobiography to Teach Chemistry1618
Felix A. Carroll and Jeffrey I. Seeman

 In The Classroom
A Course in the History of Physical Chemistry with an Emphasis on Writing1623
Cecil R. Dybowski
Curricular Change Digests
Using Writing to Enhance the Undergraduate Research Experience1626
Andrew R. Bressette and Gary W. Breton
Research Skills and Ethics--A Graduate Course Empowering Graduate Students for Productive Research Careers in Graduate School and Beyond1628
Patricia Ann Mabrouk
"Dishing Out" Stereochemical Principles1632
Harold Hart
In Search of a Deep Understanding of the Relative Stabilities of Transition Metal Halides1635
Steven H. Strauss
Local and Regional Ozone: A Student Study Project1641
Otto Klemm
The Lead Project. An Environmental Instrumental Analysis Case Study1647
Vincent T. Breslin and Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Integration of Environmental Analytical Chemistry with Environmental Law: The Development of a Problem-Based Laboratory1652
Devon A. Cancilla

 In the Laboratory
A Discovery-Based Experiment Illustrating How Iron Metal Is Used to Remediate Contaminated Groundwater1661
Barbara A. Balko and Paul G. Tratnyek
JCE Classroom Activity
LEDs Are Diodes1664A
George C. Lisensky, S. Michael Condren, Cynthia G. Widstrand, Jonathan Breitzer, and Arthur B. Ellis
Cigarette Smoke Analysis Using an Inexpensive Gas-Phase IR Cell1665
N. Garizi, A. Macias, T. Furch, R. Fan, P. Wagenknecht, and K. A. Singmaster
Preparation and Use of a Room-Temperature Catalytic Converter1667
Gareth Wong, Bernard Mark, Xijia Chen, Toran Furch, Karen A. Singmaster, and Paul S. Wagenknecht
Recovery and Reutilization of Waste Matter from Coffee Preparation. An Experiment for Environmental Science Courses1669
Santino Orecchio
Determination of Free Lime in Clinker and Cement by Iodometry. An Undergraduate Experiment in Redox Titrimetry1671
Oi-Wah Lau, Shiu-Fai Luk, Nina L. N. Cheng, and Hoi-Yin Woo
Raman Spectroscopy with a Fiber-Optic Probe and Multichannel Detection1674
Thomas J. Vickers, Jeanne Pecha, and Charles K. Mann
Preparation of a D-Glucose-Derived Alkene. An E2 Reaction for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory1676
Peter Norris and Andrew Fluxe
A Simple Preparative Method to Evaluate Total UV Protection by Commercial Sunscreens1678
Shouei Fujishige, Sumiko Takizawa, and Kaoru Tsuzuki

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Move toward an Inquiry-Based Laboratory Curriculum: An Example from Physical Equilibrium1680
James A. Rudd II, Thomas J. Greenbowe, Brian M. Hand, and Margaret J. Legg
Semimetallicity?1686
Stephen J. Hawkes
Electron Densities, Atomic Charges, and Ionic, Covalent and Polar Bonds1688
Ronald J. Gillespie
The Definition and Unit of Ionic Strength1691
Theodros Solomon
Identifying Deficiencies in the Environmental Chemistry Educational Literature1693
Thi Hoa Tran, Stephen W. Bigger, Tony Kruger, John D. Orbell, Saman Buddhadasa, and Sebastian Barone

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Computer Bulletin Board
Distributed Access Teaching Assistant (DATA)1696
John Koch and William G. Van Der Sluys
Computer Bulletin Board
WebMark--A Fully Automated Method of Submission, Assessment, Grading, and Commentary for Laboratory Practical Scripts1699
George W. J. Olivier, Katie Herson, and Michael H. Sosabowski
Teaching with Technology
Automated, Web-Based, Second-Chance Homework1704
Randall W. Hall, Leslie G. Butler, Saundra Y. McGuire, Sean P. McGlynn, Gary L. Lyon, Ron L. Reese, and Patrick A. Limbach
Teaching with Technology
Improvements in Undergraduate Science Education Using Web-Based Instructional Modules: The Natural Science Pages1709
Anthony Carpi

 Index
Annual Index for Volume 78, 20011713
Created:
Last Updated:
November 2, 2001
April 14, 2005
  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2001 > December > Table of Contents


Subscriptions

JCE HS CLIC

Our Secondary School editors work hard to distill all the JCE materials to produce a fraction of particular interest to high school teachers. We call it CLIC.


Contributions Welcome
JCE welcomes your submission

Advertisers
In recent years we have worked hard to better match our advertisers with our readers. When shopping for chemistry education materials, visit our advertisers' WWW sites first.

Be An Ambassador
Take JCE along on your outreach missions. Copies of the Journal, guest access to JCE Online, our publications catalog, and more are available for your participants.