Adventures in Chemistryland

I found this challenge to be very difficult for me. It was about using the interactive whiteboard as an instrument of reflection and a way for students to create/add to an e-portfolio. These are areas in which I struggle. I know I should have my students reflect on their learning, and I should have them [...]

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As discussed on the Whiteboard Challenge website, there is no direct equivalent of containers in SMARTBoard, however, there seemed to me to be many ways to accomplish the same thing. I took this challenge to be about creating lessons where the students could find the correct answers through interaction with the board, without the need [...]

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I tried this challenge in two different ways. The first time was as part of an assessment. I was teaching stoichiometry to my chemistry class. In prior years, I had asked the students to describe concepts such as limiting reagent, excess reagent and theoretical yield using an analogy. This year, with the Voicethread idea, I [...]

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I will admit to reading ahead in the Challenges. I have kept the challenges for Weeks 3, 4 and 5 in my mind as I taught and planned these last few weeks. I wanted to use the challenges in a meaningful way, where they best fit in my curriculum, rather than putting them in in [...]

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I just learned about this tool not that long ago, and this was my first chance to try it. I used it to help teach about ionic compounds. I gave my students several chemical equations, and then I wrote charge possibilities at the top of the page, and used the infinite cloner on the charges. [...]

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From the first moment I read the challenge, I was excited by it. It’s not something I’d ever done before, and it seemed so useful. I have a microphone that I bought about a year ago, but I never used it. Now, faced with the challenge, I had to come up with ideas.
Part I: Teacher-Made [...]

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