- Share your topic and “most powerful” web addresses and hyperlink sites on your blog. This gives you and your colleagues an open resource of ideas to draw from on 21st-century topics and tools.
The topic I chose is chemical bonding. I found several sites that can help students gain knowledge in the field of chemical bonding.
They are: Chemical Bond Pauling
Glogster EDU Chemical Bonding
NOVA Chemical Bonds Quiz- it is an interactive site that students can take quizzes on.
Interactive water molecule
The Concord Consortium Chemical Bond - Chemical Bonds Interactive download and use on internet or become a member and download the desktop. Can work by yourself or with a partner. Also comes with a quiz.
Youtube Downloader- software to download videos put on youtube.
Youtube videos- site with many videos related to chemical bonding and if students have access to a camera on their phone they can upload a video on you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chemical+bonds&aq=f
Quiz Chemical Bonds (Quia)
Quia- Site with many activities and tools
101 Science-many hyperlinks and tools that can be found such as Quia
Chem 4 kids- lots of information on chemical bonding
Think Quest- atomic structure and bonding information on Think Quest.
- Explain how you expect these tools will help prepare your students to be 21st-century scientifically literate citizens.
Students will work in groups and convey information to their peers. Also, students will use the internet to collect information, and use power points to deliver their findings. Students will also be able to get a three dimensional view of what an atom looks like and when it bonds. After all, atoms are very tiny and an electron microscope is not on any high schools to buy list.
- Describe at least one physical science activity you can plan around the use of one of these tools. Identify how this tool will help to engage students in the subject matter/topic of the activity.
Glogster EDU has a lot of information that students can access on chemical bonds. There are also visual java’s they can use to see what happens during bonding. It has so much information that I would have students break up into groups and have the different groups collect information from the different sites and present in front of the class. Students could prepare a power point showing the information they learned (Glogster EDU).
Also, a tool I liked that I can download onto my laptop is Chemical Bonds activity from the Concord Consortium. This tool can be used to give an actual representation of what happens when two element bond together. I can have students draw electron clouds for hydrogen and other elements and then have them predict what would happen to the clouds when they bonded with other elements. Then, students can check their work using the Chemical Bonds tool (The Concord Consortium Chemical Bond).
- Share challenges you might face in integrating the use of this tool into your instruction.
Some of the challenges I will face are having computers for my students to use. I can reserve the library to use computers but the school district has firewalls to prevent certain websites from being accessed. I will just have to download the software onto my personal laptop and allow the students to use it on the promethean board as a whole group demonstration.
References
Glogster EDU Chemical Bonding. Retrieved from http://claguna.edu.glogster.com/chemical-bonding/.
The Concord Consortium Chemical Bond. Retrieved from http://www.concord.org/activities/chemical-bonds.
Lack of computers is also an issue at the school where I’ m employed. We do not have enough computers and the computers we do have are not always working properly, which may sometimes hinder implementing lessons that incorporate technology.
ReplyDeleteAwesome job! Very informative and helpful for me. I will use many of these sites next year to beef up my lesson and make it more interactive. I wish we had done more of these type of blogs instead of describing our experiments....I'm finding these incredibly valuable. Thanks! : )
ReplyDeleteThank you for all of these great websites! It makes me wish I was still teaching chemical bonding. Do you incorporate any of these websites into other areas of your curriculum?
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