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The Art of Teaching Science: December 2014
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Monday, December 8, 2014. Building Batteries: Electrochemistry in the Fall Term! Electrochemistry in the Fall! My students loved building batteries. Every teenager in my class has an electronic device that is powered by a battery. You would have difficulty finding a more relevant chemistry topic to the typical teenager! The students conducted a micro scale study of the reactivity of common metals. The ma...
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The Art of Teaching Science: January 2015
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Thursday, January 29, 2015. As a teacher I work very hard to create engaging learning experiences for kids. My heart goes into labs and demonstrations to find many ways to help kids to learn difficult chemistry concepts. But there's always that point where the fun stops and the kids have to demonstrate what they've learned. Inevitably there's the question, "Is this on the test? Wednesday, January 14, 2015.
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The Art of Teaching Science: NEACT March Meeting
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Graph of pressure vs. volume data collected at the workshop. The March meeting of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers. I LOVE these giant white boards. Each lab table had one in the middle. Explain your answer with a diagram. Sue gave us plenty of great examples demonstrating how and when she incorporates particle diagrams into the curriculum. She shared some ...
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The Art of Teaching Science: September 2014
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Friday, September 26, 2014. Classification of Matter "Sandwich". Watching the Iron and Sulfur reaction. Classification of matter (COM) is usually the first "real" chemistry topic we tackle in a new year. This year I decided to make a "Lab Sandwich" with my classification of matter unit. I also like to think of this unit as a pyramid, a swimming reference that seems to fit the symmetry of the unit. When a...
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The Art of Teaching Science: November 2014
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Thursday, November 6, 2014. Plant Pigments and pH. I revisited a really fun experiment this fall during my introduction to acids and bases unit. I tried it out with the library summer science program over the summer. The community members enjoyed the experiment, and the results were exciting, so I decided to give it a try with my students. Guest Post from Library Science Program. My sons baby quilt, repa...
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The Art of Teaching Science: GeyerChem Photo Gallery
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. These beautiful silver crystals are from Christina Tobben. She conducted the reaction between copper and silver nitrate, which produces these wonderful silver crystals and the lovely blue solution of copper nitrat. Christina Tobben took this photo of her Daniel Cell battery that powered an LED. Thermite Video by Jackson Lyon. MOM demo of an antacid neutralizing an acid. I love the colors in the MOM demo.
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The Art of Teaching Science: February 2015
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Equilibrium Games are a Win. Water transfer equilibrium analogy. I haven't taught equilibrium for nearly ten years! Maybe this scared the kids more than amused them, but I found it very funny. Using two different sizes of straws to transfer water. Checking the volumes at equilibrium. Penny transfer equilibrium activity. The class agenda for Day Three of the equilibrium unit.
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The Art of Teaching Science: April 2014
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Congratulations to Rebecca Pempeck for her award winning illustrated poem! Rebecca Pempeck's Winning Poem! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Repairing my son's blanket. My sons baby quilt, repaired today after 14 years of love.Today I spent some time repairing my oldest son's baby blanket. After 14 years, this blanket is . View my complete profile.
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The Art of Teaching Science: PhET is Phabulous!
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Thursday, April 23, 2015. This week I started a two week unit on atomic structure and spectroscopy. To kick of this unit, I turned to one of my favorite resources: PhET Interactive Simulations. PhET is wonderful resource from the University of Colorado that provides a wide range of science and math simulations. PhET Website. Students create atoms from the buckets of subatomic particles. My sons baby quil...
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The Art of Teaching Science: April 2015
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The Art of Teaching Science. Reflections about teaching chemistry in a high school science classroom. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Pitching the Hot or Cold Pack. Measuring temperature change when dissolving an ionic compound. The final project for the thermochemistry unit is the "Hot or Cold Pack Design Challenge". This project is a good culminating event for the unit because it ties together calorimetry and energy exchange into a relevant application. (read more about the unit here). The only thing I didn't ...
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