an observation

an observation

September 22nd, 2007 by ckennedy

my kids finished a test Thursday and were going to be introduced to a new chapter on Friday. I started with one class by having them do a bit of “guided reading” from the book to give them some knowledge about upcoming discussions in class on states of matter and phase changes. The kids for the most part did o.k. they plodded along and answered questions from the book.

with my second period class I showed them a video from IS that was 18 minutes long. during that time a chemistry professor was interviewed. during his interview he did probably a dozen simple (if you have access to the chemicals and equipment (I don’t)) experiments explaining and demonstrating phase changes. We had a difficult time completing the video in a 50+ minute class because of the discussions that went on due to the video.

c-scope called for running a fan and having the kids try and catch the air, showing a piece of ice melt, and leaving a container of water open overnight, and making a tri-fold about plasma.

all of my classes except for first period went the IS route.