Robert Gonzales

M 2-3:30

Subject Specific Sites:

  1. a. The Catalyst

    2. b. www.thecatalyst.org

    c. The site includes resource links for chemistry topics, teacher forums, high school web links, and job opportunities for Chemistry teachers.

    d. Within the Teacher’s Forum, there is a collection of lesson plans utilizing computers, project ideas, and even lessons involving the skill of calculator manipulations.

    e. The best feature is the link to other high schools around the nation. The access to such a network is a great way to check curriculum and obtain contacts.

  2. a. ChemTutor

b. www.chemtutor.com

c. This site includes references and resources for high school and college level chemistry students.

d. Teachers could assign readings or reviews based around the website, or even practice problems. Students learn how to use online resources as study guides.

e. Everything on the site is organized and easy to find. Topics are broken down to make the step-wise process of gathering data easy and not overwhelming.

Professional Organizations:

  1. www.nsta.org
  2. Grants, educational journals specific to chemistry, conference event information, networking with colleagues, ideas for integrating technology, and discounts on books and supplies are some of the benefits of being a member of this organization.

Resources:

3. http://www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry/index.htm offers the Toyota TAPESTRY Grant for science teachers.

4. http://www.mii.org/aboutmii.php

Standards:

5. http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/ are the standards for California

6. http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/html/6e.html#csb912

CONTENT STANDARD B: As a result of their activities in grades 9-12, all students should develop an understanding of

Museums:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ offers some online exhibits and online displays that would prove quite useful with it’s elaborate pictures. One exhibit entitled "Life, the Universe, and the Electron" gives excellent history and depiction of electron and supposed orbitals. This would be a wonderful lesson plan, as the visualization of electrons often proves a stumper.

Television-Public Broadcast (PBS):

  1. Activity Title : On Fire

The On Fire activity lets you look at the processes that molecules go in combustion reactions, gives an understanding as to stoichiometric ratios in chemical equations, and lets you compute product/reaction yields utilizing the mathematic coefficients inherent in any balanced chemical equation.

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Program:

ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS: WIRED FOR SPACE

Series:

NASA CONNECT

Without the aid of fuel, NASA researchers are developing new ways to propel a spacecraft already in orbit.

 

Showtimes:

Not scheduled.
Please check back for more information.

 

Length:

29 min.

 

Link:

http://edu.larc.nasa.gov/connect/

 

Series Type:

Science/Nature

 

Grade Levels:

Grades 4-8

 

Program Rights:

(In Perpetuity)
Click here for more information on rights.

 

 

Lessons:

  1. http://home.att.net/~l_castro/WebQuestHome.html is a lesson utilizing Web Quest for a student project on linear versus exponential relationships.
  2. http://www.freezone.co.uk/rgirvan/1.htm (fractal art merged with Islamic tilings) These fractal mandalas were made by bit-by-bit merging of traditional Islamic tilings with a lamda-sine fractal, using a weighting function that varies with radius to give concentric colour bands.

 

12. Science Across the World              

Interested in linking with other schools around the world?  The Science Across the World  project, sponsored by BP must be the easiest way.

A variety of topic areas are available, including 'What do you Eat', 'Acid Rain', 'Energy in the Home' and many more. The selected unit is investigated your students, and their results shared with other schools around the world, studying the same topic. There are over 1000 participating schools, from across Europe, Australasia, Africa, Asia and North and South America.

Great for enhancing the learning of a foreign language or multicultural awareness through science.

Aimed at 14 - 18 year olds.