Websites Analysis Project

Periodic trends

I worked with 4 of my colleagues, each one of us did a web search, brought 5 different websites; and then we had discussed them in a meeting at same time we swapped the entire sites through email.

The fruit of this research is a decent number of website more than helpful and can be easily used directly in a classroom such as ppt. or can be used as handouts or assigned activities.

Some of them required having access to internet in the classroom which I have, I also had experience with some sites at my classroom and it really worked well for the students even to take a quiz or test on line.

http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/chemistry/support/act1_b2.pdf

What I like about this site the way it make students go and find the answer, it’s well guided paper with clear instructions, I’m sure my students will find it easy and useful way to learn about the periodic table.

Students may use the web or Chemistry text book to go through this activity; they may also work in group and try to come with the answer.

http://www.lynchburg.net/hhs/chemistry/trends/

Very nice site especially when you have access to internet in the classroom (I have 12 computers in my room).

The site offer links to all the definitions, colored graphs for trends, elements, and more links to many different types for tables.

Graphs are really neat and color coded, students can see and study period’s trends in much easier way when it becomes visual.

I would use this site for one of my projects in the classroom because it would provide many different links and hit on many different topics related to the periodic table and periodic trends.

http://www.pogil.org/downloads/Foundations/Periodic_Trends.pdf

This one is perfect for handouts and activities, very nice resource for POGIL, many questions each of them could be use to build a nice POGIL activity, I would use this one with my Honor class, not sure if it would work with the CP students’ level, they would need more guided activities than POGIl,

But for Honor kids it would fit them more, and I would it give a try.

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/insite/users/rsmith/trends.ppt#279,14,Trend%20of%20ionic%20radii

It seems like we don’t need to make a ppt, we can save time and effort here we can go online and hunt for the good work, this ppt. is very nice, well designed and organized one, colored graphs, could be use either as ppt if there is a projector in the classroom, if not it could be printed out and make some transparencies.

Not good for handout or activities

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http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/CCA2/MAIN/ALKALI/CD2R1.HTM

Another nice site for some video clips, perfect for demonstration, doesn’t offer too many questions or activity but it work good especially when we access a dangerous reaction or don’t have the right equipments to do it the classroom.

I had used many video clips in my classes before and my students loved them.