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.

8:30am MDT

Using a Corequisite Course to Reduce Repeatable Grades in General Chemistry: Rethinking Remediation Hill 209David Wren Helping students overcome threshold concepts in chemistry by emphasising scale Metals Hall (Green Center)Zoe Thorn • Simon Colebrooke

9:30am MDT

Analyzing student storyboards to evaluate and select resources to improve model use in lessons Marquez 226Katie Yankovec • Ellen Yezierski From Research to Practice: Using AI to Enhance Evidence-Based Learning Strategies Hill 209Ted Clark

10:30am MDT

Researching the Impact of Authentic Assessment for Intermolecular Forces Metals Hall (Green Center)Hannah Nandor Scaffolding and Storyboards: Helping students explain aqueous solutions at the molecular-level Marquez 226Kimberly Curtis • Ellen Yezierski Teaching Forensic Chemistry with Primary Literature and Mastery-Based Objectives Hill 209Carlos Olivo

2:30pm MDT

Building PLC Capacity for 3-Dimensional, Storyline-Based Curricula: Lessons from OpenSciEd Green 224Aaron Burg Chemistry Unbound: An innovative Undergraduate Curriculum Metals Hall (Green Center)Douglas Mulford Storyboarding with VisChem in the Chemistry Classroom Marquez 226Addie Smith • Ellen Yezierski The Power of Peers and the Impact of a Partially Flipped Classroom and Tutor Collaboration in General Chemistry Lecture Marquez 122Elise Naughton The Thermodynamics of Teaching: Creating a Classroom That Energizes and Inspires Petroleum Hall (Green Center)Derrick Wood Fundamentals of POGIL Hill 209Laura Trout

3:30pm MDT

Improving the Metacognitive Awareness of Students Metals Hall (Green Center)Melody Jewell Restorative Practices in Assessment Coolbaugh 131Frankie Petersen Building Systems for Laboratory Safety: An Introduction to the Safer Science Program Marquez 122Elizabeth Braun • Stephen Taylor Introducing OpenSciEd Chemistry! A FREE, NGSS aligned, phenomenon based, comprehensive curriculum for high school. Green 224Kate Henson

4:30pm MDT

From Theory to Practice: Using Specifications-Based Grading in General Chemistry Metals Hall (Green Center)Lisa Hibbard

8:30am MDT

Thinking molecularly: Using branding, video and project-based learning to fuel student motivation Green 224Silas Towne Improving class discussions about chemical phenomena through action research Marquez 122Rebecca Lewis Chemistry Reimagined: Interactive Strategies for Deeper Learning Brown 269Barbara vanKuiken

10:30am MDT

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

8:30am MDT

Cognitive Load Theory in High School Chemistry: Scaffolding, Schemas, and Learning Marquez 226William Ferriby

9:30am MDT

Chemistry Unbound: An innovative Undergraduate Curriculum. Hill 209Douglas Mulford Inquiry-Based Instruction in Chemistry Throughout the U.S. Coolbaugh 131Robert Bice More Feedback, Less Grading Marquez 226Katy Dornbos

10:30am MDT

Teaching Forensic Chemistry with Primary Literature and Mastery-Based Objectives Coolbaugh 131Carlos Olivo Teaching metacognition and focus techniques with short pre-class videos and in-class quizzes Hill 209Doug Schirch Using Models to Make Molecules Visible Marquez 226Susan Zawacky • Jean Wallace

2:30pm MDT

CLUE Spectroscopy: A scaffolded, problem-based learning exercise for improving student engagement and understanding organic compound identification Brown 269Tayler Hill Elevate Your Teaching: Harnessing Metacognition to Transform Your Chemistry Classroom Marquez 322Priscilla Burrow • Kyley Stalker Integrating Argument-Driven Inquiry, Specifications Grading, and AI-Assisted Feedback in College-Level Chemistry Laboratory Courses Marquez 226Renée Link

3:30pm MDT

Science of My Everything; Using Stories to Make Learning Relevant Brown 269Peggy Au

4:30pm MDT

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