Although this is not ‘Web 2.0’ crelated, I thought you might enjoy the video! Post by Veerendra Chandrappa.
Simulations
Click to Run I believe that the use of animations and simulations, like those from PhET, enables the manipulation of parameters and variables in different combinations, and facilitates the questioning of some issues, the systematic study of the causal relationship between variables, the formulation of alternative hypotheses and basis for conclusions. The exploration of a Full Article…
Music in the chemistry lesson
Mark Rosengarten has recorded a lot of chemistry tutorials and songs. My chemistry colleague’s favourite is the song “It’s a family thing”, a song that covers a list of organic molecules. She used it in the classroom at the end of the lesson and gave her students the link to use the song as a Full Article…
Want to play some Mendeleev?
Five minutes left in the chemistry lesson and no point in starting a new topic? Here you can find a nice interactive game on the periodic table. You can play it on the interactive whiteboard. Ask 2 students to come up to the board and if one of them makes a mistake, ask somebody else Full Article…
Periodic table of QR codes
What about a Periodic Table of QR codes for your classroom? Brady Haran fromPeriodic Videos, has created a periodic table with QR codes in place of the elements. Each QR code takes you to a video about the appropriate element.
Chemical Free
The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering £1,000,000 to anyone who can show them a 100% chemical-free substance, see here for details. Challenge your class to find one, it should be easy as there are hundreds of products advertised as being “chemical free”. There’s a great blog here which names and shames marketers who use the Full Article…