March 2014

ChemEd 2013 workshops

Jean Hein

At ChemEd 2013, 500 chemistry educators from around the world gathered together at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ ON and shared their ideas and teaching successes. Here are a few photos that capture some of the fun and learning at the conference —hands-on learning at its best.

Penny Sconzo with a cup full of dye and a pipette with colourful dyes on T-shirt.A T-shirt bundled up with elastics and adding orange dye with a pipette. Yellow, green and blue have already been added to the T-shirt.A ChemEd attendee holding up a tie-dyed purple and blue scarves.A ChemEd attendee using a pipette to add dye to a T-shirt in a lab setting.A large group of ChemEd attendees with brightly coloured goggles in front of a fume hood in a lab setting. (Sharon Geyer's session, with Sharon in the front row in a white lab coat).Bob Worley with a group of teachers standing around observing him do a demonstration at ChemEd 2013.Kathleen Holley holding a large white tube as part of a ChemEd demonstration.Faye Twiddy in a white lab coat with goggles behind a large flame.Doug De La Matter demonstrating how Mentos can cause soda pop to shoot out of a 2-L bottle.A flame tornado demonstration in a round wire cylinder.Andy Cherkas showing a solution with a red layer on top and a green layer on the bottom in a test tube.Penny Sconzo explaining her demonstration to Natalie Miller.

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