I created this roman numerals poster a few years ago when I was teaching physical science. I shared the files for this poster, but it never got a blog post of its own. I found out when we were naming ionic compounds with transition metals that my students had trouble writing the roman numerals for …
Just a quick post today to share a new covalent compounds bulletin board. I haven’t done a great job of changing my bulletin boards out this year, but that can pretty much be said about any year. I always have intentions of changing them monthly, but the reality is I change them anywhere from semesterly …
Chemistry participated in a “Naming Compounds Manhunt” activity this week. I’m usually pretty good about keeping my Algebra kids up and moving around the room away from their seats, but doing this activity made me realize I have not done a good job of this with my chemistry class this year. As a teacher, there …
I created this classifying chemical compounds foldable because my chemistry students are currently practicing classifying compounds as either covalent, ionic, or both. Yesterday, we practiced this skill by classifying common, everyday compounds. On the outside of the foldable, we wrote out a quick overview of the different types of bonds. On the inside of the …
The text for this molar mass foldable that I created for my physical science classes came directly from this file. Free Download of Molar Mass Foldable
We took a quiz in physical science on Monday over predicting the products of a reaction. Since Thanksgiving Break started Wednesday, I definitely did not want to start a new section on Tuesday. I had seen an idea on twitter the week AFTER we finished discussing ionic vs. covalent compounds. I decided to save the …
I gave my students a chart for prefixes for naming covalent compounds in their notebook, but I decided that we’re going to be using these prefixes enough that it warrants a poster for quick reference. Here’s what I came up with for my prefixes poster. I designed this poster to print on 11 x 17 …
Earlier this year, I attended an OERB science workshop. I left with over $1100 in supplies and lots of ideas to use in my physical science class. You can read more about my workshop experience here. One of the tools I was given to use with my students was a set of hydrocarbon modeling kits …