A visual aid teaching tool, the DanceChemistry video series, has been developed to teach fundamental chemistry concepts through dance. These educational videos present chemical interactions at the molecular level using dancers to represent molecules. The DanceChemistry videos help students visualize chemistry ideas in a new and memorable way. These instructional videos are disseminated broadly through the specifically dedicated YouTube channel, DanceChemistry. Videos have been made to teach basic chemistry concepts, such as thin-layered chromatography, recrystallization, melting point depression, and miscibility, to general and organic chemistry students. The effectiveness of this new teaching tool, through student questionnaires before and after watching the videos, will be discussed.

New visual teaching aid: DanceChemistry

248th National Meeting (2014)

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