2009 AP Chemistry Reading Professional Night

(Updated 6/24/09)

  ANNOUNCEMENTS

ChemEd (Radford, Virginia: August 2 - 6, 2009)

High School Meeting Day (ACS Meeting, Washington, DC : August 16, 2009)

BCCE (Denton, Texas : August 1 - 5, 2010)

SERMACS Oct 21 - 26, 2009

High School POGIL Initiative (www.pogil.org)

Some Favorite Web Sites

Molecular Workbench

            http://workbench.concord.org/database/

Useful pages from the Molecular Workbench that I like:

Topic Web Page (in the Molecular Workbench database)

Dissolving

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/186.html

Hydration of Ions

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/66.html

Intermolecular attractive Forces

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/227.html

Heat and Temperature

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/74.html

Solids, Liquids and Gases

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/74.html

Phase Change

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/188.html

Attractive Forces and Phase Change

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/63.html

Water

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/140.html

Electrostatics (Coulomb's Law)

http://workbench.concord.org/database/activities/317.html

ROVER

            http://rover.concord.org/

 

MoLE Project

            http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/CCLI/Startup.html

Topics:

Gas Laws; Stoichiometry; Electronic Structure; Molecular Structure; Equilibrium; Chemical Kinetics; Acids and Bases;

Tom GreenboweÕs Web Site (Simulations and Animations)

            http://www.chem.iastate.edu/group/Greenbowe/tg-research.html

Topics:Gas Laws; Calorimetry; pH; Buffers; Chemical Kinetics; Atomic Structure;

John GelderÕs Web Site

http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/

Podcasts

SP09; F08; SP08; F07; SP07; F06; SP06; F05

Additional Sites

            http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/CCLIEMD09/BCE.html (sample before, during and after class activities)

            http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/2009APW/Default.html (additional sample before, during and after class activities; and clicker questions)

additional website for APSI 2009 (check intro.chem.okstate.edu)

Digital Overheads

POGIL Web Site

            www.pogil.org

Physics 2000 at the University of Colorado

There are some cool pages that I reaaly like at this site;

Wavelengths

Electric Forces

Spectral Lines

Bohr Atom

Atomic Spectra

Looking for inquiry activities for the classroom?

Activity I

Activity II

Activity III

Laboratory:

Inquiries in Chemistry by Michael R Abraham and Michael J. Pavelich (laboratory) : Waveland Press

Vickie Williamson and Larry Peck (Hayden-McNeil Publishing)

Melanie Cooper (Clemson)

Lectureless/Discussion

During Class Inventions and Computer Laboratory Activities

Some stuff I am hearing about at the 2009 Gordon Conference (June 21 - 26, 2009)

Dynamic Periodic Table (developed by Michael Dayah)