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Cover
 January 1999
Vol. 76 No. 1

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Do We Really Value Learning? 5
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
A Year To Make a Difference7
J. Emory Howell
Anniversaries: 19998
Paul F. Schatz
Chemistry Behind the News
Chemistry in the News: 1998 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine12
Jennifer B. Miller
Reports from Other Journals
The Science Teacher: Winter Break, 199917
Steve Long
Reports from Other Journals
The Physics Teacher18
Volker B. E. Thomsen
From Past Issues
The Cinderella Story Revisited-Again19
Kathryn R. Williams and Gardiner H. Myers
From Past Issues
From Past Issues: Mission Statement19
Kathryn R. Williams
Commentary
Why Should Anyone Become a Scientist? The Ideal of Science and Its Importance20
Lewyn Li
Announcements
News and Announcements25
Letters28
Information Page30
Book and Media Reviews
Chain Gang-The Chemistry of Polymers (edited by Mickey Sarquis)32
David M. Collard
Book and Media Reviews
CHEMiCALC (4000161) and CHEMiCALC Personal Tutor (4001108), Version 4.0 (by O. Bertrand Ramsay)34
Scott White and George Bodner

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
JCE Classroom Activity
The Effects of Temperature on Lightsticks40A
John Norman Collie: Chemist and Mountaineer41
Ronald Bentley

 In The Classroom
Animating Reactions: A Low-Cost Activity for Particle Conceptualization at the Secondary Level50
Robert W. Milne
Amounts Tables as a Diagnostic Tool for Flawed Stoichiometric Reasoning52
John Olmsted III
Applications and Analogies
The Gravity of the Situation55
Damon Diemente
Resources for Student Assessment
Functional Group Analysis56
Johannes S. Malherbe and Cornelius J. Meyer
Synthesis of Colored Superabsorbent Polymer and Its Use To Demonstrate Convection Currents in Water by Heating62
Morio Takaki and Toshiyuki Itoh
Tested Demonstrations
A Simple Demonstration Model of Osmosis64
Joseph G. Morse
Tested Demonstrations
Luminosity, My Dear Watson, Luminosity!-Or, Are Those Bloodstains?65
Barbara A. Burke, Kamran Golestaneh, and Helene Samson
Safety Tips
A Lab Safety "Scavenger Hunt"68
Terry L. Helser

 In the Laboratory
Vial OrganicTM-Organic Chemistry Labs for High School and Junior College69
Thomas J. Russo and Mark Meszaros
Applications and Analogies
Chromatography83
Celestyn M. Brozek
Sweet Chemistry91
Benedict Aurian-Blajeni, Jonathan Sam, and Michael Sisak
Student Construction of a Gel-Filled Ag/AgCl Reference Electrode for Use in a Potentiometric Titration97
James M. Thomas

 Research: Science and Education
Constructivism: The Implications for Laboratory Work107
Thomas W. Shiland
A Content Analysis of General Chemistry Laboratory Manuals for Evidence of Higher-Order Cognitive Tasks109
Daniel S. Domin
Effect of Experience on Retention and Elimination of Misconceptions about Molecular Structure and Bonding124
James P. Birk and Martha J. Kurtz

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Replace Double Replacement133
R. Bruce Martin
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