I got another suggestion in the box. (By the way, at the beginning of the year, I wasn’t expecting many, but I get one every couple of weeks.) It says “Please no diatomic gases partners!”
I have been pleased with this method, because the students have been working in partners with new people, getting there quickly, [...]
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A Suggestion About Partners
Posted in collaborative learning, tagged group work on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Improvement in group thinking
Posted in chemistry, collaborative learning, tagged molarity, problem solving on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I learned first hand how much time it takes for students to really think about open-ended questions. I had alloted 10-15 minutes to let them get an answer to my question, and it took over 30 for all the classes.
The focus question for the day was: How can we tell how much solute is [...]
Group Presentations
Posted in collaborative learning, tagged groups on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The presentations were pretty good. Most of the students did not go quite far enough with their descriptions of dissolution. I think that is my fault, so I “fixed” it today so they could do their homework. By “fixed” I mean that I tried to do a guided modeling.
Many of my students are extremely nervous [...]
A Good Day
Posted in collaborative learning, planning, tagged chalk talk, collaborative learning, partners on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a great day, actually. Everything went so smoothly, and it was so interesting.
A brief outline:
For the Problem of the Day I had the students find their partners on their HOFBrINCl gases partner sheet, which I based off of “Clock Buddies,” an idea I found here. I used the diatomic gases because it is [...]
