Periodic Table

Showing posts with label Periodic Table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Periodic Table. Show all posts
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Periodic Table of Mistakes Dry Erase Activity

Earlier this week, i of the scientific discipline teachers I follow on Twitter retweeted an activeness posted past times AACT.  The activeness was called The Periodic Table of Mistakes.  At outset glance, it looks similar a regular periodic table, but at that spot are truly 25 mistakes hidden within the table.    


I right clicked on the ikon in addition to selected "Open Image inward New Tab" in addition to thus I could zoom inward in addition to receive to spot the 25 mistakes embedded inward the periodic table.  Seeing Omg in addition to JK on the tabular array made me giggle, in addition to I knew that I had to detect a agency to role this activeness amongst my physical scientific discipline students.  My physical scientific discipline students did basic chemical scientific discipline outset semester in addition to basic physics 2d semester, in addition to thus it's been a spell since nosotros did anything amongst the periodic table.


Next calendar week is the final calendar week of the schoolhouse year, in addition to thus lately we've been simply doing a hodgepodge of activities since students receive got been gone for every possible result nether the sun.

 

I took the ikon in addition to placed it inward an eleven x 17 Publisher file that I exported every bit a PDF.  Then, I printed the file on simply about 11 x 17 carte du jour stocki (affiliate link).  This jumbo sized cardstock is a lifesaver inward the classroom.  I role it all the fourth dimension for reusable, group-sized activities inward conjunction amongst my 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets that I ordered from Amazon.


When my students came to class, I had them dissever into 5 groups since I had printed 5 periodic tables.  Each grouping was instructed to view a dry out erase marking in addition to a dry out erase bag amongst the periodic tabular array of mistakes inside.  I told each grouping that at that spot were 25 mistakes hidden inward this periodic tabular array in addition to it was their labor to detect them.


They began to eagerly search for their interactive notebooks that held their re-create of the periodic table.  When I informed them that at that spot were no references allowed, they moaned in addition to groaned.  They insisted that they wouldn't last able to detect whatever of the mistakes on their own.  I ignored their pleas in addition to instructed them to learn to work.


There were presently excited squeals in addition to giggles coming from the groups every bit they flora diverse mistakes.  I instructed them to circle each error every bit they flora them.  A prize was offered to the squad that identified the nigh mistakes correctly.


After 5 to x minutes, I had the students stop.  I used the answer telephone substitution provided past times AACT to become over each of the 25 mistakes.  They seat stars past times the mistakes they had identified correctly.  If I recollect correctly, the winning grouping flora eighteen of the 25 mistakes.


My students didn't intend that the mistakes that involved changing the atomic volume were real fair at all.  None of them noticed whatever of those.


This activeness tin last downloaded from AACT here.


Monday Must Reads: Volume 4

Things convey been pretty placidity on the spider web log front end since the last book of Mon Must Reads. I had multiple posts I wanted to write, but I had to exercise some tough dear in addition to non allow myself write whatever to a greater extent than spider web log posts until my nation instructor of the twelvemonth application was finished. I'm cheating a flake past times writing this spider web log postal service today because my application withal isn't technically finished, but it's finished plenty that I could submit it if it wasn't for my perfectionism. I've withal got lots of edits to brand on my vii (!) essays. It turns out that my writing agency is a flake to a greater extent than wordy than what the commission is looking for.  Each essay has a maximum length of solely i or 2 double-spaced pages amongst 12 signal font in addition to i inch margins. That's non a lot of room!



I approximate I do demand to truly brand lift on this spider web log that I was named both Drumright High School's Teacher of the Year in addition to Drumright Public Schools Teacher of the Year. The showtime award came amongst a cheque for $500 in addition to the mo award volition come upwardly amongst an additional $500 cheque in i lawsuit my Oklahoma Teacher of the Year application is submitted.



Without farther ado, hither are the spider web log posts in addition to tweets that I considered to live must reads this week.

 Teach180 tweets. The snapshot she provides into her classroom is incredibly inspiring, in addition to I detect myself wanting to live a educatee inward her class!  In a Teach180 tweets from the year. This classroom highlight reel is a process to read!  And, you lot should definitely catch joining inward adjacent twelvemonth amongst the #Teach180 hashtag.  I mightiness fifty-fifty convey to pocket Liz's persuasion in addition to create my ain spider web log postal service amongst my favorite tweets of the year.  What an incredible agency to reverberate on the halt of i schoolhouse twelvemonth every bit nosotros start to laid for the next!



Norma Gordon created an awesome #SmudgedMath action involving interquartile hit in addition to box-and-whisker plots. I dear the educatee thinking required inward an action similar this.  Norma's #SmudgedMath tasks tin live downloaded here.


Yah Lee's recent tweet virtually using a visual to assistance students solve equations has got me thinking a lot virtually how I desire to approach solving equations amongst my Algebra 1 students adjacent year. Last year, I used a combination of the menses nautical chart method in addition to the traditional approach. I would dear to acquire away from the traditional approach, but I likewise desire to brand certain that whichever approach I purpose tin live used when in that place are variables on both side of the equal sign.



I'm non certain this tweet from Fawn Nguyen needs an introduction. #TRUTH


Probability Bingo. My students dear this game in addition to acquire super competitive every fourth dimension nosotros play! Liz Mastalio late flora a agency to cook i of the most annoying aspects of the action past times using shapes instead of colors. It's in addition to then much easier to create 2 die for the action past times gluing on shapes instead of trying to color the die in addition to dealing amongst the colors rubbing off. Yes, I utter from experience.  


Mr. B's tweet caught my optic because it helps illustrate a solution to a occupation many of my algebra students have. Most of my students tin solve this type of occupation inward their heads, but I've never been truly certain how to assistance those students who acquire by to empathize where the missing value is coming from. 


I late had my showtime breakout box sense every bit business office of the Tulsa Math Teachers' Circle. I've been toying amongst using the persuasion inward my ain classroom, but I didn't desire to pass a lot of coin on a bunch of unlike locks. Nick Waldron created an action that caught my optic because it allows students to do lots of math practise but solely requires a unmarried lock.


I dear using logic puzzles inward my math class, but I oft convey issues amongst students trying to do a puzzle without showtime fully agreement the rules. Molly Rawding's novel approach to introducing KenKen puzzles is a bright agency to solve this problem!


If I e'er acquire the endangerment to learn statistics again, I definitely desire to detect a agency to acquire my hands on some of these stats stencils that Will Davies tweeted about.  Can you lot tell I'm a flake anxious virtually the fact that I don't know what classes I'm instruction yet for adjacent year?



Jennifer Michaelis is making me wishing that I could learn trig in i lawsuit again adjacent year. How awesome are these plexi-glass graphs that allow for instant trig graph transformations?!?


For the iv years I taught Algebra 2, I taught my students that roots, solutions, zeros, in addition to x-intercepts were all the same thing. Today, I learned the truth cheers to David Butler. It makes in addition to then much sense, in addition to I wishing I could perish dorsum in addition to re-teach my one-time students why in that place are in addition to then many unlike words. Special cheers to Matt Enlow for taking David's tweet in addition to turning it into a catchy image! 


And, here's Matt's awesome visual of this: 

Image Source: https://twitter.com/CmonMattTHINK/status/866677313743835137/photo/1

And, that's all of the spider web log in addition to twitter awesomeness I convey until adjacent time.  Remember, my Mon Must Reads postal service may acquire a flake sporadic over the summertime due to other obligations.  Keep sharing, #MTBoS!


Organizing xi 10 17 Dry Erase Activities

Over the by twelvemonth or so, I've made quite a few activities for my classroom that role 11 x 17 carte stock (affiliate links including links below!). Often, this carte stock ends upwardly getting placed inwards the amazingly useful 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets  I purchased from Amazon. I've flora that 9 x 12 dry out erase pockets (which jibe missive of the alphabet sized paper) is perfect for students working alone. When students are working inwards groups, they actually involve the extra infinite that 11 x 17 dry out erase pockets provide.

Here are roughly examples:

Venn Diagrams


Periodic Table of Mistakes


Identifying Outliers


Can You Level the Towers?


Simplifying Radicals


Farkle Score Sheets


After I took these activities out of the dry out erase pockets to brand means for novel activities, I wasn't certain precisely what to create amongst them. I couldn't merely stick them inwards a file folder!

When I moved into my novel classroom this summer, they ended upwardly beingness stuck inwards a cabinet. Last week, I live on decided to create something near them.

I took a re-create newspaper box from the office. It's the exact length needed for eleven x 17 paper!


Then, I used a binder clip to jibe together multiple copies of the same activity. I stuck a post-it banking concern annotation to each packet amongst the lift together with alphabetized them inwards my box. 


Hopefully it volition live much easier to notice them forthwith when I desire to reuse them!

How Many Elements Can You Name?

Just a quick ship today to part a quiz I of late wrote for my chemical scientific discipline class. It's a quiz to run across how many of the elements they already know earlier nosotros delve into our report of the periodic table.

I don't facial expression my students to hold upwardly able to refer all 118 elements. Hello, I can't fifty-fifty create that myself! But, I create desire to emphasize to my students that at that spot are 118 elements. The numbers are at that spot entirely for students to continue rails of how many they tin remember. They create non necessitate to know the atomic position out for each chemical gene as well as house it correctly. Though, perhaps the quiz could hold upwardly used for this after inwards the year???

You tin download the file here.

Element Bingo

My chemical scientific discipline students are inwards the midst of taking weekly chemical component subdivision quizzes until nosotros convey the symbols of the outset 36 elements memorized. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 couplet of weeks ago, nosotros played a few rounds of Element Bingo to laissez passer on them do remembering the symbols for each element.


Students were given a blank Element Bingo carte du jour (free download at the bottom of this post!) to hit sum out. There were 24 spaces on the bingo card, together with students had to select their elements from the outset 36 that nosotros were memorizing. Therefore, every pupil should convey dissimilar elements on their bingo carte du jour than their classmates.

Here's the blank bingo carte du jour they were given:

Not all of my students followed the directions to ONLY write the symbols on their bingo cards.  I approximate I require to emphasize this to a greater extent than adjacent time! The students who did write the names together with the symbols could nonetheless play bingo amongst us, but they didn't larn the do of trying to cry upward what symbol stood for which element.


It but together with thence happened that the twenty-four hours nosotros were scheduled to play this was the same twenty-four hours that one-half of our chemical scientific discipline flat was missing due to a softball tournament. We ended upward playing a few to a greater extent than rounds than I was planning on, but this worked out since I didn't desire to larn besides far ahead amongst one-half of my students missing!


My students took the game super seriously, together with they were trying their best to mean value of the symbol that corresponded to the chemical component subdivision called earlier checking their respond on the periodic tabular array or their written report guide. Magnesium together with Manganese were a tricky pair for my students to proceed straight. They also struggled amongst Neon together with Nitrogen.


I couldn't discovery my bingo chips when nosotros went to play this, together with thence I ended upward pouring a bag of pompoms (affiliate link) that I had bought for an action later on inwards the yr inwards a few beakers to gear upward or together with thence the room for students to role equally bingo playing pieces.


They LOVED this! And, I've decided that a beaker sum of pompoms is i of the cutest things I've e'er seen.


For the chemical component subdivision calling cards, I used a free download from STEM Sheets. I was able to specify just what I wanted on my bingo calling cards. I chose lift together with chemical component subdivision symbol, but I could also convey included atomic number, atomic mass, or solid pose down at STP. I was able to select the disclose to impress per page together with just which elements I wanted to print.


My students actually took to the bingo activity, together with thence I await frontwards to incorporating it to a greater extent than later on inwards the year. I run into a game of polyatomic ion bingo inwards our future!

You tin download the chemical component subdivision bingo canvas here.

Element Quiz Generator

I mentioned inwards a previous post, that I'm giving my chemical scientific discipline students weekly chemical factor quizzes until they convey the symbols too names of the commencement 36 elements memorized.

When I told my husband of my innovation to write my chemical factor quizzes, he offered to tending practise an Excel Spreadsheet that would automatically generate random chemical factor quizzes. Of course, I took him upward on his offer!

Here's the finished product:


Change the version letter, too the spreadsheet volition automatically generate a novel quiz. Not happy amongst the novel quiz version? Hit F9 to generate a dissimilar version.



This purpose of the spreadsheet controls the magic. 



Type inwards the atomic numbers that you lot desire to quiz students through. Choose a quiz discover too version letter. The spreadsheet does the rest. 

For my class, nosotros are doing 4 quizzes. 
Quiz 1 - Elements 1-12
Quiz ii - Elements 13-24
Quiz iii - Elements 25-36
Quiz 4 - Elements 1-36

The spreadsheet made it super slow to generate all of these quizzes (including FOUR versions of each) inwards a thing of minutes. I exactly hitting F9 until I got a quiz version I wanted, too then I selected "Microsoft Print to PDF" every bit my printer. 





Each PDF contains a quiz too the corresponding response key! 



 Here's what the finished production looks like:


Quiz
Answer Key
You tin download the chemical factor quiz generator (created past times my husband) every bit good every bit each of the quizzes I created using the generator here. I'm also including the file for the report direct I gave my students to cook for each of the chemical factor quizzes.