http://www.chemistryhelp.net/
This website has games that may be popular among students such as Jeopardy, Who wants to be a Chemist, and a matching game. The games also allow students to review elements on the periodic table, chemical compounds, and basic chemistry. The students could use this site as a review tool in order to get ready for upcoming quizzes and tests. I could also use this site in class on review days and have the students split up into teams and play Jeopardy against each other. This may boost the students' excitement about chemistry.
http://www.khanacademy.org/#browse
The Khan academy is a site that has mini lectures for almost every content. This website has a mini lecture for almost every unit of chemistry. Students could use this website to reteach a earlier unit of chemistry if they just so happen to have forgotten the unit. Also, if a student didn't understand what was taught in class, they could go to the Khan Academy website to see if they could better understand the material given by a different instructor. The students could also use this website as a means of getting ahead so that material presented in the next days lecture wont be so hard to comprehend. In my mentor's class, we used this site so that the students could have more examples and practice with electron configuration
I have heard good things about Khan Academy in the past few months, but I didn't realize what a great resource it is until I just looked at it. The site is full of lessons and videos that can be used in any classroom. For math alone, this site has hundreds of lessons that are useful for both students and teachers. The funny thing is that I am teaching a lesson in one of my Algebra II classes tomorrow and I just reviewed the video for the content. It actually gave me a good idea for teaching the lesson tomorrow. Overall, this site is a great resource.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoyed both the websites and am passing the links on to a science and math teaching team who are interested in anything along the lines of Bill Nye's Way Cool Science Guy. Have you tried any of the games on the SimScience site? It has three levels with grade indicators, vidoes, and/or webquests. http://simscience.org/
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