ChemEd 2025

ChemEd 2025

Welcome to ChemEd 2025!
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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.

Sue Bober

Poudre Community Academy

Science Teacher

Fort Collins, CO

About me

I taught at Schaumburg High School in Illinois for 33 years. I miss my buds at ChemWest in Illinois a lot! I took the "west" part a bit farther and moved out to Colorado in 2024. After "retiring," I am happy to be working for Poudre Community Academy, an alternative high school in Fort Collins, CO. Oh... this is my 16th ChemEd conference..... my first ChemEd was in 1989. :)

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

Copper Art: cooperative ways to bring chemistry and art together Coolbaugh 228C (lab)Jeffrey Kallen • Kelly Novak

9:30am MDT

Wood River Junction Nuclear Accident: Local Phenomena for Anchoring Unit within Atomic Theory. Brown 269Amy Williams

10:30am MDT

Gamifying Content in Chemistry Classroom Coolbaugh 131Soma Biswas Teaching Forensic Chemistry with Primary Literature and Mastery-Based Objectives Hill 209Carlos Olivo

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

Better Together: Collaboration in Chemistry Coolbaugh 131Sara Brechbiel • Danica Esquivel

3:30pm MDT

Introducing OpenSciEd Chemistry! A FREE, NGSS aligned, phenomenon based, comprehensive curriculum for high school. Green 224Kate Henson

4:30pm MDT

Using Games to Develop Conceptual Understanding in Chemistry Petroleum Hall (Green Center)Steve Sogo • Peggy Au

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 Critical and conflict metals: Classroom activities linked to sustainability and ethics Hill 209Scott Donnelly

9:30am MDT

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

10:30am MDT

5 Favorite Phase Change Demonstrations Coolbaugh 228 (lab)Eric Knispel • Jaclyn Yetter

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

Incorporating the stuff that the books don’t contain (Solids) into the classroom Alderson 291Paul Brandt • Renee Tahja

3:30pm MDT

Building On-Ramps, Closing Gaps: A Journey Towards Inclusive Chemistry Marquez 226Cassandra Lydon • Robert Anderson STEM Chem: Hands-On Applications Green 224Nadim Sarhan

4:30pm MDT

Molympics: A Chemistry Competition Celebrating Mole Day with Avogadro's Number Marquez 226Karen Sorensen • Doug Ragan

6:02am MDT

National Mole Day Breakfast Friedhoff Hall (Green Center)

8:30am MDT

Watercolors: An Introductory Experiment Centering Skills of a Scientist Alderson 291Veronica Berns • Casandra Moisanu • Isabella Riha

9:30am MDT

My Favorite Demonstrations Coolbaugh 228 (lab)Matt Miller

10:30am MDT

Teaching Forensic Chemistry with Primary Literature and Mastery-Based Objectives Coolbaugh 131Carlos Olivo

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

2:30pm MDT

Chemistry to Dye For Alderson 291Annelise Gorensek-Benitez • Sara Hubbard Using Games to Develop Conceptual Understanding in Chemistry Hill 209Steve Sogo • Peggy Au Conceptual Chemistry of Gases Green 224Ray Lesniewski

3:30pm MDT

A picture is worth a thousand words: Use of thermal cameras to explore natural phenomena Coolbaugh 131Scott Donnelly

4:25pm MDT

Engaging Students in Social Justice Science Issues Through NGSS Science & Engineering Practice 8 Coolbaugh 209Nina Hike

6:00pm MDT

Mines Moledown! Closing Gala Friedhoff Hall (Green Center)

8:30am MDT

Science in a toilet paper roll Marquez 226Nasko Stamenov

9:30am MDT

Conceptual Chemistry of Gases Coolbaugh 131Ray Lesniewski

11:30am MDT

Closing Celebration Metals Hall (Green Center)