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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2009  > February  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 February 2009
Vol. 86 No. 2

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Documenting the Value of Education139
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
"The Sky's the Limit" Thinking141
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 Education145
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 Level146
Angela G. King
From Past Issues
Robert Boyle: The Founder of Modern Chemistry148
Kathryn R. Williams
Reports from Other Journals: Nature
Nature: Our Atmosphere in the Year of Planet Earth150
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon
Reports from Other Journals: News from Online
News from Online: Stratospheric Chemistry153
Lynn Diener
Report
A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration156
Lynn Diener and Jordan Acker Anderson
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day 2009: Air—The Sky’s the Limit
JCE Resources for Chemistry and the Atmosphere: An Update158
Erica K. Jacobsen
National Historic Chemical Landmarks: A Resource To Make Chemistry Real161
Judah Ginsberg and Erica K. Jacobsen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Platinum(IV) Chloride162
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Platinum163
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements164
The Information Page168
Letters
Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles169
Liberato Cardellini
Letters
Author Reply: Teaching and Learning Guiding Principles169
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 Issue172
Out of the Editor's Basket173

 Chemistry for Everyone
Teaching Chemistry Using October Sky177
James G. Goll, Lindsay J. Wilkinson, and Dolores M. Snell
JCE Concept Connections
Looking Up180
Bernadette A. Caldwell
Connecting Element Names with the Names of U.S. Towns181
Nicholas C. Thomas

 In the Classroom
Resources for Student Assessment
Fluorine Compounds and Dental Health: Applications of General Chemistry Topics185
Gabriel Pinto
Gadolinium: Central Metal of the Lanthanoids188
Michael Laing
Relating Functional Groups to the Periodic Table190
Jef Struyf
A Simple Algorithm To Convert Complex Organic Molecules into Their Straight-Chain Conformations194
Dwayne A. Dias
Molecular Modeling Exercises and Experiments
A Computational Experiment of the Endo versus Exo Preference in a Diels–Alder Reaction199
Christopher N. Rowley, Tom K. Woo, and Nick J. Mosey
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Illustrating the Concept of Sparingly Soluble Salts Using Various Copper Compounds. A Classroom Demonstration202
Daniel W. O'Sullivan and Collier C. Crouch

 In the Laboratory
Revisiting History: Encountering Iodine Then and Now. A General Chemistry Laboratory To Observe Iodine from Seaweed206
M. Farooq Wahab
Using Soda Cans To Teach Physical Science Students about Density209
Michael J. Sanger, Teari C. Humphreys, and Mark M. LaPorte
Green Chemistry
Greening Up Auto Part Manufacturing: A Collaboration between Academia and Industry212
Kristi A. Kneas, Drew L. Armstrong, Alice R. Brank, Amanda L. Johnson, Chelsea A. Kissinger, Adam R. Mabe, Özge Sezer, and Mike Fontinell
Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage with Sulfate Reducing Bacteria216
James Hauri and Laurel A. Schaider
Measurement of Ozone Emission and Particle Removal Rates from Portable Air Purifiers219
Stephen A. Mang, Maggie L. Walser, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, and John M. Laux
Proximate Analysis of Coal222
Craig J. Donahue and Elizabeth A. Rais
JCE Classroom Activity
[#100] How Heavy Is a Balloon? Using the Ideal Gas Law224A
Bettie Obi Johnson and Henry Van Milligan
Exploration of SO2 Scrubbers: An Environmental Chemistry Project225
Amber L. Schilling, Phyllis A. Leber, and Claude H. Yoder
Microwave-Assisted Carbonyl Chemistry for the Undergraduate Laboratory227
S. Shaun Murphree and C. Oliver Kappe
The Self-Assembly Properties of a Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide Derivative230
Patrick J. M. Stals, Jan F. Haveman, Anja R. A. Palmans, and Albertus P. H. J. Schenning
Synthesis and Hydrogenation of Disubstituted Chalcones. A Guided-Inquiry Organic Chemistry Project234
Jerry R. Mohrig, Christina Noring Hammond, Paul F. Schatz, and Tammy A Davidson

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
Design and Validation of an Instrument To Assess Metacognitive Skillfulness in Chemistry Problem Solving240
Melanie M. Cooper and Santiago Sandi-Urena
pH Basics246
Bruno Lunelli and Francesco Scagnolari
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Towards "Inverse" Character Tables? A One-Step Method for Decomposing Reducible Representations251
J.-Y. Piquemal, R. Losno, and B. Ancian

 On the Web
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Visualization Tools for Organic Chemistry254
Jennifer L. Muzyka
JCE WebWare: Web-Based Learning Aids
Chem Map: A Geographic Information System Web Page for Chemical Education255
Benjamin R. Ayres, William Garrick, Savyasaachi Murthy, Nehal Sanghvi, Amit Kulkarni, and Scott M. Reed
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models of Volatile Organic Compounds256
William F. Coleman
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