I write this last post for Modeling Chemistry as we prepare to go back home. It is just too hot in Arizona that 75℉ is cool here. The air conditioning system is set to 75℉. At home, 75℉ is when I start to wonder about moving to a cooler region of the country…or maybe goingContinue reading “ModChem Day 15: Last Day!”
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ModChem Day 14
Silver Nitrate Lab We started our day by taking a look at our test tubes with the copper wire and silver nitrate. OF COURSE I forgot to take a photo, but just trust me when I say that no more things gathered on our copper wire. Mitch said that that was part of the point.Continue reading “ModChem Day 14”
Day 13: Internal Structure
Multiple Representations Reading An Overview of Recent Research on Multiple Representations – David Rosengrant, Eugenia Etkina and Alan Van Heuvelen is the name of the article we read. We continued the discussion on how learning styles were preferred rather than actually beneficial to learning. Despite the amount of students saying they preferred a certain learningContinue reading “Day 13: Internal Structure”
ModChem Day 6: Heat Capacity
Talanquer Reading The reading discussion focused on Johnstone’s Triangle. Chemistry education rarely gives opportunity to bring all three: Macroscopic, Submicroscopic, and Symbolic together. Yet, all three are (mostly) required for students to gain a deep understanding that we’re seek. As educators, it is easy for us to move through between the different representations of Chemistry.Continue reading “ModChem Day 6: Heat Capacity”
ModChem Day 4: Pressure, Volume, and Particles in Motion
Wenning Article Discussion Some takeaways from the group discussion of the article: U2 – Energy and Particles in Motion New unit lab/demo. To open up the unit, we watched Mitch light a match, blow it out, and waited. Whenever the smell got to us, we raised our hands to show that we smelled the sulfur,Continue reading “ModChem Day 4: Pressure, Volume, and Particles in Motion”
ModChem Day 3: End of Unit 1
Hestenes Paper Discussion Lab: Gases There wasn’t much given in terms of how to do the lab. There was no write-up of the procedures to follow. Because it was one of the first tasks of the day and I’m not taking 5 other classes, I was able to follow. I wonder if I should giveContinue reading “ModChem Day 3: End of Unit 1”
ModChem Day 2: Sig Figs and Density
Scale Reading, Uncertainty, Sig Figs We quickly reviewed the SigFig rules, but I definitely felt unsusre of myself. It may be how my students might feel. I keep forgetting which trailing zeros count and which don’t. I really like how my learning partner, Rich, showed me what would count as “significant.” When completing the ScaleContinue reading “ModChem Day 2: Sig Figs and Density”
Modeling Chemistry Day 1
It’s Day 1 of the Modeling Chemistry Workshop here at the birthplace of the Modeling Instruction pedagogy! I am very excited to be on this journey. I’m going to complain once about the weather, and that’s it (I hope). We left San Francisco and it was maybe 67℉. It is a cool 103℉ here inContinue reading “Modeling Chemistry Day 1”
Physics Day 20: I survived another year of teaching position graphs
It’s the end of the quarter, and I admittedly did not do a very good job of preparing myself mentally for what was to come today. I knew it was going to be a short period (65 minutes instead of our usual 75 minutes). It wasn’t until I was chatting with another teacher did IContinue reading “Physics Day 20: I survived another year of teaching position graphs”
Day 7: 2-Argument Functions
It has finally dawned on me why teaching Pyret felt both foreign and familiar. We are teaching the same material, but in a different order. At this point, we would have drawn some pictures using Pyret already. I absolutely understand why we skipped the playing with Pyret portion of the introduction. We simply don’t haveContinue reading “Day 7: 2-Argument Functions”
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