1. What were the objectives of this lesson? How well do you think your students understood the overall purpose and relevance of the lesson? (APS 4.A–C) For the lesson observed the objectives was to explain the trends of the periodic table based on the elements’ valence electrons and atomic numbers. Additionally, students were responsible for applying their previous knowledge in calculating subatomic particles to review the Bohr Models and discus the relationship among families in the periodic table. Students will use the information from today’s lesson to make future judgments on reactivity and bonding created during chemical reactions in the next unit. Lastly, students were to connect the information on elemental properties to previous experiences with their health, commercial products, and everyday life. 2. What effect did your teaching strategies have in terms of promoting student learning and keeping your students meaningfully engaged? (APS 5.A–C) In order to fully engage students and make personal connections/ownership to the content, it is vital to connect a topic to the student’s life. Unit II is the smallest chemistry unit that provides the necessary background knowledge students need for …show more content…
The lack of consistent laboratory space has led to the adaptation of experiments to be held in my lecture-based classroom. While I provide high engaging, clear and accessible instructional tools/materials, high expectations, and a comfortable learning environment to the students I am limited by the setup of my classroom. Overall, I believe my classroom environment has encouraged my flexibility, imagination, and creative problem solving as a teacher to provide high engaging and maintain my expectations for my students. I have taken advantage of the use of craft projects and humor to create an inviting environment to my students to promote their educational
This one is called cost/benefits. I have to describe how it supports our and neighboring districts and that it is advantageous compared to the cost.
The church required that the workstations be replaced as they are no longer supported by the hardware manufacturer. The workstations operating Windows XP can no longer receive a software patch and are no longer supported by Microsoft. These workstation are extremely vulnerable to attack. Wireless connectivity through the church campus was a requirement as the church was to be able to access information from multiple locations. Setting up hardware to maintain and secure all data and information. The sponsor liked our team’s suggestion to migrate them from a peer to peer network environment to a server domain environment. With all of these upgrades and updates, network security needed to be addressed so the installation and setup of a firewall became a requirement. The
Users can be the main risk to an organization. A disgruntled employee can access the server and open it up to all types of security issues or install malware or virus’. User access to the server should be limited to users that need admin level and closely monitored. Admin accounts should never be used for day-to-day activities as this could lead to username/passwords being stolen more easily providing access to others from the outside. When an employee leaves their admin and general use accounts should be turned off immediately. If an employee is to be terminated with cause, theses accounts should be disabled prior to the termination discussion. Users risk are medium impact and highly controllable with policy and procedures.
Chemistry became the subject that I couldn’t wait to learn, and I often find myself getting excited over new discoveries in chemistry, such as the four new elements added to the periodic table that I texted multiple friends about. Since I want to be a teacher, I find the best way for me to combine teaching and chemistry is to help those in the school who need help learning the subject. My friend is a sophomore who currently takes level one chemistry, and for her, I serve as the person she can go to when she needs help with the subject, and I’m happy to help her whenever she needs
Periodic Tales is a fun and enjoyable book that is intended for anyone to read. Aldersey-Williams wrote a collection of short stories that are based on how elements act around each other, and she used simple words so that beginners can enjoy. The elements are given characteristics and personalities similar how humans interact in the world. This would be great when discussing why certain atoms only react with specific elements. The grade level would roughly range from 7-11. Senior chemistry students may be bored with the simplicity of the vocabulary, but they could definitely read and understand the material.
What were the learning outcomes for the lesson? How did the learning outcomes meet the needs of individual students?
Misconceptions such as these can be detrimental to a student’s chemistry understanding. Usually misconceptions are seen in a student’s understanding of fundamental chemistry. As such, students are unable to excel in more advanced chemistry courses due to their weak chemistry foundation. While some misconceptions can be easily addressed, others can almost permanent skew a student’s chemistry understanding.
Throughout the duration of the class, we discussed various complex ideas of Chemistry. Whenever Jumana was confused about the material and wanted to ensure complete understanding of the material, she never hesitated to request additional explanations to the topic inside and out of class. Jumana
“This enrichment connects the foundational chemistry concepts the cadets have learned in the classroom over the course of the
Every single day, without even realising it, we use so many things that are brought to us by the discoveries and advances in chemistry. Many of these things we take for granted, and don't even bother to question how it got there, why it is there, and how it works. Chemistry makes up everything in our lives, from the air that we breathe, to the plastic on the keyboard I'm typing on now, and a in depth study of some of the wonderful things chemistry has done for the modern day world, will help us to appreciate everything we have a great deal more.
How did your instruction support learning for the whole class and students who need greater support or challenge?
Society today is still using Chemistry as much as the people did back in the ancient times. “Leading chemists from around the world have warned that scarce natural resources, such as phosphate minerals mined for fertilizers, are “dwindling at an alarming rate” and shortages could hit within a generation.” (Gilbert, Natasha. “Shortcoming of scarce Natural resources coming, warn Chemists” Nature News Blog. 27 March 2011) Although the natural resources have been scarce, the natural resources are back and up to date. Society today could not run without the work of Chemists and Chemistry teachers teaching the children of the next generation the key factors in Chemistry. Therefore Chemistry is very important in today’s society and will always be.
Our knowledge of chemistry, and the many ways that it surrounds us has helped us better understand the world we live in and the ways in which we can use chemistry to better our world, and improve our exploration of it.
To begin with, the first video was titled ‘Elements and Atoms’. It focused on how atoms reacted with each other. This educational video started with pictures of carbon, lead, and gold in solid form. It continued to discuss how these pure elements have different properties and can change forms under certain circumstances. Following these images, the video displayed an interactive periodic table. The teacher went over some of the major elements in the table and their locations. In order to show students how small an atom actually is, the educator discussed how millions of atoms make up each element on the periodic table. Within every atom, there are protons, electrons,
As a teacher, my objectives are: (a) to act as a bridge between the chemistry field and the students; (b) to engage students in the learning process of the core principles of chemistry, so that they can acquire critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation skills, as well as the unique skills of accurate scientific prediction, experimentation/observation, and analysis. In order to achieve these goals I will use several strategies and I will employ various evaluation methods to find out if these goals are being achieved.