First Day Questioning Practice
Ashley Green | Mon, 08/07/2023 - 17:38
This "first day" activity is an opportunity to help students practice asking good questions!
First Day
Five For the First
Nora Walsh | Sun, 08/06/2023 - 20:09
Nora Walsh shares some of her favorite FIRST WEEK of school activities for the chemistry classroom!
Positive Relationships & a Safer Classroom
Michael Farabaugh | Mon, 08/13/2018 - 08:25
In this post, I share my thoughts about positive relationships as well as some of the activities that I do on the first day of school to make connections with my students.
“The Candle Experiment” – an Opening Exercise for General (or introductory) chemistry
Dave Blackburn | Fri, 08/26/2016 - 10:59
This exercise is intended as an ice-breaker for a first or second class meeting. It also serves as an introduction to physical & chemical properties and application of the macro/micro/symbolic representations of chemical phenomena. Finally, it also provides a framework to mention many of the topics to be covered in a general chem first semester course.
Life, Death and the First Day of School....
Chad Husting | Thu, 08/18/2016 - 19:54
I had a tough week. I had a front row seat in which I witnessed someone almost lose their life. I also almost accidently deleted both of my class websites just days before the kids walk in as we are starting a one to one lap top program. Here is the amazing part to all this...I get something that we all get as teachers every year...a second chance.
The Only Thing Constant in Life is Change
Sarah Kong | Tue, 01/20/2015 - 09:45
Wow! Night one of the semester we did the activity Change You Can Believe In. It was my second time facilitating, so I did a much better job of directing students when they asked questions and it went much faster than last semester. I did still, as expected, have students that were frustrated.
Build a Boat (and a classroom culture)
Erica Posthuma | Fri, 07/25/2014 - 12:40
This back to school activity can be a valuable way to create a classroom culture of teamwork and growth mindset. Links to a virtual version are included.