ChemEd 2025

ChemEd 2025

Welcome to ChemEd 2025!
If you have not yet registered, please register here. Regular-price registration ends June 20th.
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The Exhibit Hall will be in the lobby of the Green Center: Sunday 6pm - 8pm; Monday 8am - 5pm; Tuesday 8am - 3pm

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

Chris Coker

Camden Fairview High School

Teacher/District Science Facilitator

Camden AR

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About me

I have been teaching and coaching at Camden Fairview High School for 26.5 years. I teach AP Chemistry, Accelerated Chemistry, and AP Physics 1. I am an AP Chemistry reader and T3 regional instructor. I am also currently the district science coordinator and adjunct for Southern Arkansas University.

12:00pm MDT

Conference Registration Green Center Lobby

3:00pm MDT

Make & Takes! Come Add Some FUN to Your Classroom! Metals Hall (Green Center)Renee Tahja • Sue Bober

6:00pm MDT

Exhibit Hall Openings and Welcome Reception Green Center Lobby

8:30am MDT

Data collection and interpretation using technology Marquez 122Chris Coker

10:30am MDT

Scaffolding and Storyboards: Helping students explain aqueous solutions at the molecular-level Marquez 226Kimberly Curtis • Ellen Yezierski

11:30am MDT

Lunch Mines Market (in Elm Hall)

1:00pm MDT

Keynote: The Power of Storytelling Bunker Hall (Green Center)Kit Chapman

2:30pm MDT

Tie-Dye Lab: A Colorful Chemistry Experiment! Alderson 291Priscilla Burrow • Jennie Agin • Kathryn Zaborowski

4:30pm MDT

Shift Happens! Coolbaugh 228C (lab)Jamie Flint

6:00pm MDT

The Mole - Storytelling & Reception Mines Museum of Earth ScienceAriel Serkin

6:02am MDT

Mole Run 6.02K TBAStephan Graham

8:30am MDT

Favorite Activities for First Year Chemistry! Marquez 226Jamie Flint • Alicia Doffing

9:30am MDT

Stamp Your Passport at Stoichiometry Stations! Petroleum Hall (Green Center)Harmony Tucker

10:30am MDT

Making Chemistry Real: Integrating Authentic Data Sets into Classroom Conversations Marquez 122Melanie Shedd

11:30am MDT

Lunch Mines Market (in Elm Hall)

1:00pm MDT

Irwin Talesnick Award Presentation Bunker Hall (Green Center)Lisa Talesnick

1:10pm MDT

Plenary Talk: Integrating Indigenous cultural elements and traditional knowledge into chemistry Bunker Hall (Green Center)Joslynn Lee

2:00pm MDT

Ice Cream social and Exhibit Hall Closing Green Center Lobby

2:30pm MDT

Beyond the Classroom Walls - Engaging Chemistry in our Communities Marquez 226Katy Dornbos

3:30pm MDT

Summary of Student Successes and Challenges on the 2025 AP Chemistry Exam and an Update on AP Chemistry from the College Board Metals Hall (Green Center)Kyle Beran • Jamie Benigna

4:30pm MDT

Argument Driven Inquiry in Chemistry, Developing a Reaction matrix Coolbaugh 228C (lab)Frankie Petersen

8:30am MDT

Testing the Waters: Engaging Chemistry Students with Hands-On Science and Engineering Practices in ChemClub Coolbaugh 131Lacey Fitts Labtivities, Lectivities, Labtures? We will vote! Green 224Chris Coker

10:20am MDT

Dry Ice - A Few Fun Ways to Include Dry Ice in Your Teaching. Coolbaugh 209Amiee Modic

10:45am MDT

Demos with Everyday Materials (and maybe some liquid nitrogen) Coolbaugh 209Tom Kuntzleman

11:30am MDT

Lunch Mines Market (in Elm Hall)

1:00pm MDT

Announcement of the ChemEd 2027 host and Handoff Bunker Hall (Green Center)

1:15pm MDT

Reg Friesen Lecture: The Chemistry of Rockets Bunker Hall (Green Center)Ron Furstenau

2:35pm MDT

Lab Assessments to Replace Lab Reports Coolbaugh 209Kristen Drury

2:55pm MDT

APTeach: Professional Development for AP Chemistry Teachers Coolbaugh 209Michael Farabaugh

3:35pm MDT

Creating Digital Interactive Card Sorts Coolbaugh 209Ashley Green

4:05pm MDT

Engaging with Contributors Coolbaugh 209Erica Posthuma

4:30pm MDT

Follow that Fertilizer: Integrating Socioscientific Issues into the Chemistry Curriculum Hill 202Lacey Fitts

6:00pm MDT

Mines Moledown! Closing Gala Friedhoff Hall (Green Center)

8:30am MDT

IMF Demos To Make Your Students Think Coolbaugh 228C (lab)Liz Velikonja Science in a toilet paper roll Marquez 226Nasko Stamenov

9:30am MDT

Data collection and interpretation using technology Marquez 226Chris Coker