tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55317925616951881852023-11-15T07:22:49.600-08:00Chemistry Never SleepsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-64328090855755185572011-02-02T13:15:00.000-08:002011-02-02T13:15:06.502-08:00Chem Matters<a href="http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=2119&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=bd451359-186d-417c-a6cf-a71d00309eeb">Chem Matters Magazine Archive</a><br />
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Chem Matters Magazine from the American Chemical Society for High School students is available online along with teachers guides. Check it out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-14261818496269220072011-01-21T05:49:00.000-08:002011-01-21T05:49:23.542-08:00PetroleumI am designing a unit based around petroleum chemistry. It is new and exciting for me and tied into my work as a mudlogger in the oil fields of west Texas before becoming a teacher. I am brushing up on my organic chem and gathering resources. My goal is to start with the standards, design an appropriate assessment, then see what assignments fill in the gaps between.<br />
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I believe I have a lot of tools in my teaching tool belt that are not being utilized. I believe this next unit may be a good way to utilize these in a easy connect to the world of my students.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-90346087481950489792011-01-11T10:08:00.001-08:002011-01-21T05:34:07.892-08:00Behaviors That Support Learning RubricMy good friend and colleague, Luc Roy, designed and field tested this online rubric on Google Docs for "behaviors that suport learning". This is a school wide rubric, now turned digital and a great quick check in for students to assess their own class performance. <br />
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<iframe src="https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dG5jZnlMSnJBdE9ITTkzcDR4MXRNd1E6MA" width="700" height="979" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-27683536988325360292010-12-08T12:52:00.001-08:002010-12-08T12:52:46.433-08:00<a href="http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade11/science/11science.htm">SAT Prep Test</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-1000564051773178722010-06-05T05:51:00.000-07:002010-06-05T05:51:33.354-07:00Curious Chimp — Congo's Chimps — Video — National Geographic Magazine<a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/goualougo/goualougo-animation/curious-chimp">Curious Chimp — Congo's Chimps — Video — National Geographic Magazine</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-22669490237108870002010-01-29T04:53:00.003-08:002010-07-13T06:37:22.303-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-59009858951767071462010-01-29T04:53:00.001-08:002010-07-13T06:37:45.170-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-64318570086356025072010-01-25T10:13:00.001-08:002010-01-25T10:13:51.085-08:00Edit Central Excellent Lit Link<br />
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<a href="http://www.editcentral.com/gwt1/EditCentral.html">http://www.editcentral.com/gwt1/EditCentral.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-24446963415723909492009-12-21T19:36:00.001-08:002009-12-21T19:36:17.975-08:00Cool Little Miniature Stove! - Video<a href=http://www.metacafe.com/watch/839102/cool_little_miniature_stove/>Cool Little Miniature Stove! - Video</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-57149124882833536232009-12-21T19:32:00.001-08:002009-12-21T19:32:48.166-08:00Dynamic Periodic Table<a href=http://www.ptable.com/>Dynamic Periodic Table</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-71524739257666711312009-12-15T11:12:00.001-08:002009-12-15T11:12:44.034-08:00DonorsChoose.org: Chemistry Students Probe Ware the Real Data Is<a href=http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=338470>DonorsChoose.org: Chemistry Students Probe Ware the Real Data Is</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-59004219605070501922009-12-02T11:44:00.001-08:002009-12-02T11:44:40.119-08:00From Atoms to Patterns - Wellcome Collection<a href=http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/from-atoms-to-patterns.aspx>From Atoms to Patterns - Wellcome Collection</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-10511723342510070352009-11-20T02:38:00.000-08:002009-11-20T02:43:12.373-08:00<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/rocks/atomsact.shtml">BBC Bitesize</a><br />
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The entire first Quarter of Chemistry in 2 minutes, how is that for digesting information?<br />
I am going to play this in class today before starting balancing equations.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-86382621024779473842009-11-11T11:01:00.000-08:002009-11-11T11:02:39.749-08:00Wolfram Alphahttp://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Chemistry.html<br />
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If you have not yet tried <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/">Wolfram Alpha </a>yet, then you don't really know the power of the internet. According to its own desctiption it is not a search engine, it is a computational knowledge engine. It sends back an answer rather than links. If I type in two stocks it will return a chart comparing market cap to shares outstanding. If I type in third cousin's great grandson it will return a family tree of that relationship... Earthquakes in Italy... a map with dots that I can deliniate a date or historical period.<br />
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It is just cool, Mathematica cool.<br />
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Read more about it at <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/11/wolfram-alpha-its-not-a-search-engine-its-an-answer-engine/">Discover Magazine</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-45677654527626941302009-11-07T18:59:00.000-08:002009-11-07T18:59:50.247-08:00The Science Room at Make Magazine<a href="http://blog.makezine.com/science_room/">http://blog.makezine.com/science_room/ </a><br />
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This is a cool website and the science room may have a lot of potential for the layered curriculum lab setting. Teach yourself chemisty through lab experiences. However the mantra of the site " all Lab no Lecture" does not hold true, I had to read a lot of background info to get to the acid base lab. Useful to find labs organized by topic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-76908057311783925782009-11-07T18:42:00.001-08:002009-11-07T18:48:57.732-08:00Teach them how sciecne works...Discussion on Science education and the future of Science Literacy in America. Take a listen to this pod cast.<br />
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Nobel Laureate Dr. Carl Wieman directs the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia and the Colorado Science Education Initiative.<br />
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(Sep 22, 2008 at Cornell University)<br />
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Wieman emphasizes the importance of making science education effective and relevant for a large and diverse population. The approach, he says, is to transform how students understand and use science, and this calls for teaching them to actually think like scientists.<br />
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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://huffduffer.com/flash/player.swf?soundFile=http://coblitz.codeen.org/uc.princeton.edu/main/images/stories/podcast/20080922CarlWiemanCornell.mp3" width="290" height="24"><param name="movie" value="http://huffduffer.com/flash/player.swf?soundFile=http://coblitz.codeen.org/uc.princeton.edu/main/images/stories/podcast/20080922CarlWiemanCornell.mp3" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><a href="http://huffduffer.com/perrywalter1/9032">Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science on Huffduffer</a></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-2397600869098568552009-11-07T16:18:00.000-08:002009-11-07T16:18:21.015-08:00The Periodic Table of VideosThe Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham<br />
<a href="http://www.periodicvideos.com/">http://www.periodicvideos.com/</a><br />
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Cool reference for all the elements.<br />
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"We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments.?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-41595375099553926272009-11-06T17:32:00.000-08:002009-11-06T17:32:56.632-08:00<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/about.jsp">Science Nation Online Magazine</a><br />
Science Nation<br />
is an online magazine that each week looks at discoveries and researchers that will change our lives: an artificial retina that can help the blind to see, new materials for building things stronger and lighter, what we're learning from organisms in hot volcanic vents, and ice core secrets that could reveal answers to global warming. (National Science Foundation)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-24702610391155715682009-11-03T06:00:00.000-08:002009-11-03T06:00:27.340-08:00Video Download helper<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006</a><br />
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Video Download Helper for Mozilla Firefox. Useful tool to have copy of YouTube videos when internet access is slow or unavailable. As teachers we always need a contingency plan in case our lesson plans do not work out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-6308374697343003462009-10-23T10:59:00.001-07:002009-10-23T10:59:57.642-07:00Periodic Table Lecture<iframe frameborder="0" height="342" src="http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dcdwgxrx_3876fhsv7dcq" width="410"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-74193847033509501082009-10-13T11:36:00.000-07:002009-10-13T11:44:39.529-07:00<a href="http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/">Science is Fun</a> Good site for kids type science demos and examples<br /><a href="http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml"><br />General Chemistry Online</a> The Classic online chem textbookUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-23561604565345639222009-10-13T06:26:00.000-07:002009-10-13T11:45:14.958-07:00Phase Diagrams and Kinetic Molecular TheoryThree good animations for Phase change and Kinetic Molecular Theory.<br /><br /><a href="http://treefrog.fullerton.edu/chem/LS/coolheat.html">Interactive Phase Diagram </a><br /><a href="http://chemconnections.org/Java/molecules/index.html"><br />Molecules in Motion</a><br /><a href="http://mutuslab.cs.uwindsor.ca/schurko/animations/waterphases/status_water.htm"><br />Phases of Water</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-69607975604326894922009-10-08T05:39:00.000-07:002009-10-08T05:48:57.849-07:00Layered Curriculum Day here in Chemistry class. Four Lab stations, four different labs going on, all kids engaged in science. One pair working on determining which of 5 different ionic compounds are exothermic or endothermic, another is determining the heat of fusion of candle wax. A different group is calculating the number calories consumed by an alcohol burner and a third is prepping a lab for next class by melting mass quantities of wax in a water bath and weighing out equal test tube fulls of the stuff.<br />I am starting them to clean up and have no grading to take home. Sounds good to me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-13994236658634543002009-10-06T08:16:00.001-07:002009-10-13T11:46:04.019-07:00<object height="344" width="425">Super conductors and Mag-Lev trains cooled with Liquid Nitrogen<br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2--43eAS1iY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2--43eAS1iY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531792561695188185.post-70592873140749553822009-09-18T11:15:00.000-07:002009-09-18T11:16:06.958-07:00<a href="http://misterguch.brinkster.net/chemfiestanew.html">http://misterguch.brinkster.net/chemfiestanew.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0