Tue, Apr 03, 2012 8:33 PM in Creative chemistry projects
Emily, I did something like that in college. And no, I haven't come up with anything creative for chemistry. Most of my brain power has been devoted to tweaking a standards based system for my courses. And I started too late. I'll have to plan for next year :-)
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Sun, Feb 05, 2012 1:43 PM in Need Help Creating Activities for Stoichiometry
Well, so far it's purely theoretical, all on paper. I hope to come up with a lab version of it some day. I basically disguise a regular stoics problem as a forensic situation or industrial scenario. For example, you are a quality control company attempting to determine effectiveness of a new technique to produce . . . Whatever, Titania was my most recent compound. The group you're observing used 5...
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Sun, Feb 05, 2012 11:54 AM in Assessments
In my limited experience, I have discovered that one has to be careful converting formative assessments into summatives. Most of the time, what is classified as a formative assessment involves casual settings, guidance from the teacher, etc. Summatives usually involve a more carefully controlled environment. What a student can demonstrate beautifully in a casual formative assessment they cannot re...
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