October 2008

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Issue Highlights

Having a Ball with Chemistry.

Editorial: Using the Web To Teach Critical Thinking

Especially for High School Teachers: Having a Ball with Chemistry

JCE Classroom Activity #98: That’s the Way the Ball Bounces (or Is It?)

National Chemistry Week 2008: Having a Ball with Chemistry

• Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances Using Geography To Increase Hemoglobin Levels; NO Levels and Exercise; Better Method for Steroid Detection
• From Past Issues: May the Best Chemist Win!
• Report: High Performance Chemistry: Scientists in the Fast Lane
• Report: Modern Sport and Chemistry: What a Golf Fanatic Should Know
• Report: Polymers in the Field and Track
• Report: Impact of Polymers in Impact Sports
• NCW 2008: Having a Ball with Chemistry: JCE Resources for Chemistry and Sports
• Reports from Other Journals: News from Online: The Chemistry of Sports
• JCE Concept Connections: National Chemistry Week
• JCE Classroom Activity #98: That’s the Way the Ball Bounces (or Is It?)

JCE Featured Molecules: Molecular Models of Polymers Used in Sports Equipment

acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (polymer)	acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (monomer)
polyethylene	poly(methyl methacrylate)

Chemistry for Everyone

• Drawing Attention with Chemistry Cartoons
• JCE Concept Connections: Now I Get It!
• Meet the Molecules in Chocolate: Informal Opportunities for Building Thematic Molecular Models with Children
• The Role of Chemistry Museums in Chemical Education for Students and the General Public. A Case Study from Italy
• A Chemistry Minute: Recognizing Chemistry in Our Daily Lives
• Elemental Chem Lab

In the Classroom

• Polymeric, Metallic, and Other Glasses in Introductory Chemistry
• JCE DigiDemos: Extensions: Demonstration Extension: Copper-to-Silver-to-Gold Penny Demonstration
• JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations: A Dramatic Classroom Demonstration of Limiting Reagent Using the Vinegar and Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate Reaction
• JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations: Fog Machines, Vapors, and Phase Diagrams
• Teaching with Technology: Optimizing the Use of Personal Response Devices (Clickers) in Large-Enrollment Introductory Courses
• Development of a Nanomaterials One-Week Intersession Course

In the Laboratory

• A Service-Learning Project Based on a Research Supportive Curriculum Format in the General Chemistry Laboratory
• Magnetized Water: Science or Fraud?
• Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Dryer Lint. An Advanced Analysis Laboratory
• Quantitative Analysis of Nail Polish Remover Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Revisited
• Synthesis of the Commercial Antidepressant Moclobemide
• Use of Wikis in Chemistry Instruction for Problem-Based Learning Assignments: An Example in Instrumental Analysis
• Chemical Information Instructor: Accessing and Managing Scientific Literature: Using RSS in the Classroom

On the Web

• JCE TSTS: Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Scientists: Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Scientists. A New Digital Collection Bringing Cutting-Edge Science to Middle and High School Students
• JCE TSTS: Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Scientists: Organometallic Chemistry: Development and Study of Catalytic Activity
• JCE TSTS: Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Scientists: Organic Chemistry: Synthesis and Study of Reactive Intermediates Found in Interstellar Space
• JCE TSTS: Today’s Science for Tomorrow’s Scientists: Bioorganic Chemistry: Designing Peptides with Defined Folding Properties

Celebrating National Chemistry Week (NCW). NCW is a community-based annual event that unites American Chemical Society (ACS) local sections, businesses, schools, and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life. Having a Ball with Chemistry is this year’s NCW theme, to be celebrated October 19–25, 2008, with an emphasis on applications of chemistry in sports. The cover features different ways to play with balls, in part made possible by the many different chemicals used to make sporting equipment. See articles throughout the issue to help you make the most of this annual celebration.