Doug Balmer

high school chemistry teacher

[Doug Balmer @BalmsSquad]

Wrapped up quantum theory and light equations just in time. I guess that makes Jalen a MHz! @JalenHurts

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@kendricklamar Thanks for introducing me to your music at halftime. Now I can feel "relevant" while teaching AP Chemistry.

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Today we were talking about Zwitterions in AP Chemistry. @elonmusk

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@TICalculators I like my gelatinous confections with a low pH

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The data is in for the calibration using a benzoic acid standard. The @VernierST wide range temperature probe was the perfect size.

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Calorimetry is the BOMB! Thank you, @WarwickEF ! More pics and scientific data to follow . . . #HappyFriday #KnewItWasGoingToBeAGoodDay

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@VernierST In AP Chemistry we use the flat pH sensors and Spectrovis+ for many of our experiments. The Go direct temp and pressure sensors make studying boiling point depression under vacuum and cinch.

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Awards ceremony for ISEF! @WarwickHSpride

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@VernierST Inflate gate? I’d love to see the pressure before and after. Does the high pressure sensor have an adaptor for a bike stem?

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Hoping to make this a yearly tradition. #TrendSetter @VernierST

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@jolshanWMS Great work, team!

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Last day of Chemists Celebrating Earth Week 😢 Oh wait, I can do that every day. #GetAChargeOutofChemistry. Zinc Electroplating a Penny. Student AP Chemistry One-Pager on Electrochemistry. #CCEW

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@HisimNusret Love the Shirt!

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Out with the old, in with the new!

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👀 at these STEELy-eyed, STEAMy teachers. We are getting equipped to help students continue in Warwick’s proud tradition of quality science education.

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Living the dream! Semester break work day. Trying out the new egg chair.

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It's a half-life sort of day. Thanks to Spectrum Techniques' @ORNL isotope generator and @VernierST 's radiation probe, you can watch several half-lives of Ba-137m in under 10 minutes. I can live with 4.3% error.

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We have @VernierST platinum-cell conductivity probes, so I said come back in flex. He did! The data beautifully shows the consumption of our I- catalyst but then the regeneration of our I- catalyst. Chemistry- where the textbook comes to LIFE!

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After discussing the kinetics of reaction mechanisms with catalysts and seeing a picture in the textbook (@pearson) of the decomposition of H2O2 catalyzed by NaBr, a student asked if we could measure the concentration of the ion catalyst.

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Got Gas? Thanks to a grant from the #WarwickEducationFoundation (#WEF), Warwick does. Students performed a crime scene analysis using a @VernierST MiniGC Plus.