Reviews Piaget's theories and the teaching of chemistry. (SL)

Reviews responsibilities for persons using chemical substances which are potentially harmful. (SL)

Presents a 124 item questionnaire about safety procedures. (SL)

Suggests that the innovative approach to education may be contributing to an overall decline in educational quality. (SL)

Discusses the need to introduce polymers and macromolecules in introductory chemistry courses. (SL)

Reviews polymer chemistry as a means of presenting concepts and principles in physical chemistry. (SL)

Discusses chemical accidents occuring within the University of California system and comments critically on accident prevention and safety in general within academic institutions. (SL)

Describes a practical and visual way of extending the concept of symmetry present in nature to the quantum structure of molecules. (SL)

Provides descriptive terms for precisely describing the structural and stereochemical relationships between starting materials and products in chemical and biochemical reactions. (SL)

Describes an undergraduate chemistry course for nonscience majors which focuses on the topic of the chemistry of wine. (SL)

Reports on a nationwide survey using the Delphi technique. Data were obtained relating to upper level undergraduate chemistry programs. Data indicated interdisciplinary electives are valuable additions to chemistry programs and student concerns should be included in curriculum planning. (SL)

Describes a class of ion-selective electrodes that use a solid-state sensing membrane. These are suitable for student activities. (SL)

Proposes that including historical perspectives in chemistry instruction to aid in building a historical perspective of the interplay in science of facts, logic, and ideas. (SL)

Presents a simple method for deriving steady state rate equations for first-order and pseudo-first-order reactions. (SL)

Presents eight questions relating to different elements of environmental pollution and provides detailed chemical solutions to answer the questions. (SL)