Helping science educators find creative, fun activities to use in the classroom
The students have begged for a chemistry review day as they prepare for a unit test. You would prefer not to prepare materials to present, yet you know that the students will not have studied enough to have decent questions
Have you jumped onto the interactive notebooks bandwagon? Students paste foldables and diagrams into a notebook where they also take notes. It allows the student to spend a little time being creative while you can be sure that they have
Many topics in class simply require lots of practice. Content mastery is critical to success on assessments and in future content in your course. Using matching games is one way to fit in more practice while still being fun
Students take chemistry for a variety of reasons. As teachers, we have a variety of goals as to what the students know once they are done with our course. One of my goals is for chemistry students to learn enough
In the sciences, we all know that lab is an experiential activity that allows our students to learn by doing. This idea is kinesthetic learning – moving one’s body while learning. While participating in a kinesthetic activity, students are out
What are task cards? Aren’t those used in middle school? I use chemistry task cards in my high school classroom. Let me tell you why, and how you can use them in your chemistry classroom too. Students love it and
Do you use foldables in your high school chemistry class? Maybe you have never heard of a foldable and know nothing about this strategy. Maybe you think that foldables and interactive notebooks are only used in middle school, but that
Teaching students solution calculations with more engagement All year the students have seen the reagent bottles in your lab that indicate the concentration. A few of the more astute ones have asked ‘what does the 3 M mean in front
Mole calculations are essential to student learning You need to teach the kids about moles and grams. As a chemistry teacher, you know the routine. It lays the foundation for so much else. It may be the only concept they