My Favorite Simulations to Teach Bonding | Teacher Priorities - Episode 10 | MsRazz ChemClass
TLDRThe video script discusses a teacher's preparation for a stress-free week of teaching, focusing on bonding units for AP and honors students. The teacher shares favorite simulations from Simbucket for explaining ionic and covalent bonding, molecular geometry, and nomenclature. These interactive tools are designed to enhance understanding and are compatible with various devices. The teacher emphasizes the importance of hands-on activities and simulations in visualizing complex chemistry concepts, making them accessible to all learners.
Takeaways
- 📅 The teacher plans to prepare for a stress-free week before the holiday break by setting up various educational activities.
- 🎓 The AP students are working on FRQ (Free Response Questions) based on intermolecular forces, while the honor students focus on coent bonding and molecular geometry.
- 📚 The teacher utilizes handouts and stations to aid students in understanding concepts like internuclear distance, bond energy, and molecular interactions.
- 🔍 The teacher emphasizes the importance of using simulations to help students grasp the differences between covalent, ionic, and metallic bonding.
- 💡 Simulations are a key tool for visualizing and understanding chemistry concepts, making them accessible to all learners.
- 🌐 The teacher recommends using SimBucket for its variety of simulations that can be used across different educational levels.
- 📝 Students are held accountable for their learning through question sheets and doodle notes guides that encourage them to reflect on and apply the concepts they've learned.
- 🧪 The 'blue glitter lab' is highlighted as an engaging activity that demonstrates the role of intermolecular forces in observable phenomena.
- 📈 The teacher stresses the importance of understanding scoring guidelines for FRQs to ensure students include all necessary information during exams.
- 🚀 The teacher uses simulations as an introductory tool to set the foundation for more complex topics, such as expanded octets in molecular geometry.
- 📅 The teacher plans to share more about the simulations used in bonding units and encourages feedback from other educators on their favorite simulations.
Q & A
What is the teacher's goal for the upcoming week?
-The teacher's goal is to have a stress-free week with as much work done as possible so they can enjoy preparing for the holidays and being with their students.
What specific topic are the AP students working on related to FRQ based questions?
-The AP students are working on intermolecular forces.
What is the focus of the teacher's honor students in their bonding unit?
-The honor students are focusing on coent bonding, specifically looking at internuclear distance and bond energy.
What type of simulations does the teacher use for teaching bonding to their students?
-The teacher uses simulations from Simbucket that work on Chromebooks and any device to help students understand the differences between calent and ionic bonding.
How does the teacher introduce the concept of ionic bonding to their students?
-The teacher introduces ionic bonding using a simulation from Simbucket that creates a model of how ionic bonding is shown, allowing students to construct their own explanatory models.
What is the purpose of the blue glitter lab for the AP students?
-The purpose of the blue glitter lab is to show students how intermolecular forces play a role in different phenomena, incorporating modeling and hands-on experience.
How does the teacher hold students accountable for the information they learn from simulations?
-The teacher creates question sheets or doodle notes guides based on the simulations, which include questions and spaces for students to draw explanatory models and take quizzes to test their understanding.
What is the main teaching strategy the teacher uses to engage students at the start of a new unit?
-The teacher uses a phenomena-based instructional strategy, such as a lab or simulation, to engage students and have them think about how the concepts they are learning can help explain a particular phenomenon.
How does the molecular shapes tutorial from Simbucket help students understand molecular geometry?
-The molecular shapes tutorial uses interactive elements, such as allowing students to click and drag, and analogies like the 'ghost atom' to demonstrate how electron pairs repel each other and why molecules take certain shapes.
What is the teacher's approach to teaching binary ionic formula writing and naming?
-The teacher uses a simulation that walks students through the definition of ionic bonding, reviews the octet rule, and has them build a crystal lattice, helping them derive naming and formula writing rules for binary ionic compounds.
Outlines
📚 Preparing for a Stress-Free Week of Teaching
The paragraph discusses the teacher's plan to prepare for an upcoming week, aiming for a stress-free and productive time. The teacher plans to use the prep period to get ready, with a goal to complete as much work as possible. The focus is on preparing materials for different groups of students, including AP students working on FRQ-based questions about intermolecular forces and honor students studying coent bonding and molecular geometry. The teacher also intends to share favorite simulations used for teaching bonding, which are accessible on various devices and can help students understand the differences between calent and ionic bonding. The paragraph ends with a mention of setting up stations for students to practice intermolecular force concepts.
🧪 Setting Up Interactive Learning Stations
This paragraph details the teacher's process of setting up interactive learning stations for students. The teacher describes the various activities and materials prepared for the stations, including a guide on the dos and don'ts of intermolecular forces, handouts for each station, and QR codes leading to educational videos. The stations are designed to help students understand concepts such as molecular ranking, isomers of pentane, and the role of electron clouds in intermolecular forces. The teacher plans to let students choose between station one or two and then complete at least two to three FRQ-based questions from past exams. The paragraph concludes with the teacher showing students the scoring guidelines from the College Board.
💻 Utilizing Simulations for Bonding Concepts
The teacher shares insights on using simulations to teach bonding concepts to students. The teacher highlights the effectiveness of simulations from Simbucket in visualizing and understanding ionic and coent bonding, binary ionic formula writing and naming, and molecular geometry. The simulations are described as interactive, allowing students to construct their own models and test their knowledge. The teacher also discusses the strategy of starting each unit with a phenomena-based instructional approach to engage students and relates the simulations back to macroscopic observations. The paragraph concludes with the teacher's method of holding students accountable through question sheets or doodle notes guides, emphasizing the importance of understanding and applying the concepts learned.
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Keywords
💡AP kids
💡Intramolecular forces
💡Free response questions (FRQs)
💡Simulations
💡Covalent bonding
💡Ionic bonding
💡Molecular geometry
💡Phenomenon-based instruction
💡Simbucket
💡Accountability
💡Station-based learning
Highlights
The teacher plans to have a stress-free week by preparing in advance for the upcoming week.
The teacher is setting up stations for AP students to work on FRQ-based questions related to intermolecular forces.
Honor students are working on their bonding unit, focusing on coent bonding and internuclear distance and bond energy.
The teacher uses simulations on Chromebooks and other devices to help students understand the differences between calent and ionic bonding.
The teacher shares a guide for students on the dos and don'ts of intra and inter particle forces.
Students will practice ranking molecules and justifying their rankings with intermolecular force practice.
The teacher uses snatoms to demonstrate the release of energy when bonds form and to explore intermolecular forces with isomers of pentane.
The teacher plans to show students the scoring guidelines for the F FRQs from the College Board to help them understand what is expected in their responses.
The teacher is preparing for the 'blue glitter lab' to demonstrate the role of intermolecular forces in different phenomena.
The teacher uses a simulation from simbucket to introduce ionic bonding and its relation to particle size and periodic trends.
A simulation is used to teach binary ionic formula writing and naming, emphasizing the need for a net zero charge in compounds.
The teacher uses a tutorial to explain coent bond formation, bond length, bond strength, and nomenclature rules.
A molecular shapes tutorial from simbucket is used to teach Vesper theory and the concept of electron pair repulsion.
The teacher creates question sheets or doodle notes guides to hold students accountable for their learning from the simulations.
The teacher emphasizes the importance of simulations in visualizing chemistry concepts and making them accessible to all learners.
The teacher encourages feedback and discussion on simulations used in teaching bonding units.
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