Everything is “Smaller” in America: Attending ChemEd 2019

A Visitorship report by Jeremy Naidoo, St John’s College

An overview of attendance at the ChemEd Conference 2019, held in Naperville, Chicago. Topics covered include:

• Chemistry on a microscopic scale to reduce our waste footprint
• Using spectroscopy to better understand the coloured complexes of transition metals
• A field trip to Fermilab
• A field trip to the Argonne research facility
• Demonstrating equilibria concepts
• How to teach the correct model of the atom to school learners
• The psychology of chemistry teaching

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