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What’s the Matter?

What’s the Matter?. CAST 2011 Meg Young, Lamar High School. Find mentors. George Hague- inspired chemistry teachers across the nation. Rosendo Garcia- worked hard to make ACT2 a great organization. Find their story on the ACT2 website.

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What’s the Matter?

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  1. What’s the Matter? CAST 2011 Meg Young, Lamar High School

  2. Find mentors • George Hague- inspired chemistry teachers across the nation. • Rosendo Garcia- worked hard to make ACT2 a great organization. • Find their story on the ACT2 website. • Dr. Diana Mason continues to mentor high school teachers in Texas.

  3. Mentors/ Professors: Dr. Larry Peck &Robert Beck Clark

  4. Find a teaching partner: Roberta Young

  5. Network • Join ACT2 and STAT • Come to the Biennial Conference at Mary Hardin Baylor. June 24-28, 2011 • Go to Chem Ed 2013 in Waterloo, Canada 7/28-8/1, 2013 • Go to a BCCE 2012 at Penn. State Present at CAST next year. • Attend a Material Science Camp.

  6. Teaching aids • Edmodo – Join the DFW group by entering 7zuap0. • Edinformatics- find state tests on chemistry. Since you won’t see any STAAR released items for a few years, use other state test questions. Use VA, MA, and New York. • http://www.edinformatics.com/testing/testing.htm • Learn to make podcasts: speaker Jonathan Bergmann. • Use JING for short podcasts.

  7. Magazines • Take Chem 13 News from Waterloo, Canada • Excellent high school resource. • Take the Journal of Chemical Education. • Take Wired to learn about technology.

  8. Worksheets for presentation at • https://sites.google.com/site/youngcast2011/ • Old handouts • https://sites.google.com/site/youngcast09/ • https://sites.google.com/site/nuclearchemistryunit/ • https://sites.google.com/site/periodictrendsunit/ • https://sites.google.com/site/act2newsletter/

  9. Help students picture matter. • Formulas: H2O, HOH • Lewis Dot Diagrams: • Ball and stick diagram: • Spacefilled model: • Use water molecule kits.

  10. Modeling matter for students • Use pictures on worksheets • Use common objects to model matter such as nuts and bolts, pop beads, small balls, beans, etc. • Look for POGIL worksheets. POGIL is process oriented guided inquiry lessons. These always include a “model” that leads the student to develop understanding about how matter interacts.

  11. POGIL • Go to a POGIL workshop • Look at POGIL materials online: • TED talk on POGIL http://www.pogil.org/about/straumanis-ted-talk • Rewrite worksheets to model POGIL style. It really makes a difference. • Learn to use paint or a draw program to make pictures or models.

  12. Scrambled ions • To help ESL students, add pictures of the polyatomic ions. Use paint to make pictures. • INIRETT _____________________ • ENITTAR _____________________

  13. Use Nuts and Bolts • Nuts and bolts can be used to model % composition. • Have students weigh a bolt and 3 nuts to find the % composition of the compound BN3. • Use nuts and bolts to model elements, compounds, and mixtures.

  14. Use everyday life examples • Stoichiometry occurs in everyday life. The Arlington GMC plant makes 4-wheel drive SUVs. There are 1350 SUVs without wheels. There are 2500 wheels available. • Reaction: __ SUV body(s) + __ Wheel(s) __ Wheeled SUV(s) • 10. How many finished SUVs can be made?_________ • 11. What is the stoichiometric ratio of trucks to wheels? ___________ • 12. Which of the materials is in excess? ___________ • 13. How much of the excess material is left over? ____ • 14. What limited the amount of product made? ______

  15. % water of popcorn • Did you know that you can put 2 tablespoons of popcorn in a brown lunch sack and microwave it? • I use an air popper at school. Most students have never seen popcorn pop. Easy to mass before and after to find the % water. It should be between 13-15% water.

  16. Use Music to help students. • Mark Rosengarten • http://www.markrosengarten.com/ • Sample: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8p7OIdyt54

  17. TEKS 10H • Students must be able to identify precipitation reactions, acid-base reactions, and redox reactions: • Nitrogen + hydrogen  ammonia • N2 (g) + H2 (g)  NH3(g)

  18. Use station labs • Have students move from station to station and record information about chemicals.

  19. Use math type • Math type allows you to make Lewis Dot diagrams: • Videos on how to use math type at: • http://teachingcollegemath.com/2008/03/lewis-dot-diagrams-in-mathtype/n using math type

  20. Use technology • Check out ptable or emdpte for IPad • Look for animations: • http://www.btinternet.com/~chemistry.diagrams/Hspec_animation2.swf • animation that shows why elements have a spectrum • http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/ • shows the shapes of the orbitals • http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/elements/Elements.html • shows the absorption and emission spectrum of the elements. • http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/WorkshopFolder/Electronconfnew.html • You will need to update shockwave to run this.

  21. Reading is fundamental. • Chemical heritage magizine • Napoleon’s Buttons, The Disappearing Spoon, • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, • Chem 13 News • The Science Teacher • Journal of Chemical Education

  22. In memory of Cole Hardison • Check out Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures Worksheet II • He was a master at using paint to make pictures. This is one of the few • electronic copies that I have. • I am sharing it to honor • his memory. Example of • Heterogeneous mixture.

  23. Have a great CAST Have a great school year. Come to the DFW meetings. HOPE TO SEE YOU AT MARY HARDIN BAYLOR. Contact me at meg_young@hotmail.com or megyoun@gmail.com

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