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ChemMatters Teacher’s Guides feature resources to help incorporate articles into your classroom. Teacher's Guides are available for FREE download with each issue. In each guide, you will find:
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Latest Teacher’s Guides: February 2023
Teacher's Guides do not include the ChemMatters articles.
What's in Your Paintbox?: DOC Google Doc
The Chemistry of Shaving: DOC Google Doc
Electric Vehicles! What's the Chemistry that Makes Them Go?:
DOC Google Doc
What's Chocolate, and How Does Its Chemistry Inspire Such Cravings?:
DOC Google Doc

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Dec 2022: PDF DOC Google Doc
Oct 2022: PDF DOC Google Doc
Feb 2023: PDF DOC Google Doc
What Do We Know About Fireworks?
The content of “Fireworks” illustrates many chemistry topics, including redox reactions, thermochemistry, electron structure, spectroscopy, gas laws, and safety
Chocolate: The New Health Food — Or Is It?
The content of “Chocolate: The New Health Food. Or Is It?” illustrates a number of chemistry topics, including oxidation of free radicals in biochemistry, molecular structure, and organic chemistry functional groups.

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