Chemistry 20 - Atoms and Elements (Periodic Table)

Subject: Chemistry 20
Unit: Atoms and Elements
Topic: Elements : Periodic Table
Evergreen Curriculum Objectives

Website: Jefferson Lab : It's ELEMENTAL
Explain how you will use this website:

This website has great online activities that utilize the periodic table. All the interactive activities are engaging and help students become familiar with properties, names and symbols of elements.

ELEMENT FLASH CARDS
ELEMENT MATH
ELEMENT BALANCING
ELEMENT HANGMAN
ELEMENT CROSSWORD PUZZLES
ELEMENT WORD SCRAMBLE
ELEMENT CONCENTRATION
ELEMENT MATCHING GAME

Throughout this unit these games could be used to supplement the topics as they are brought up as review help or as assignments. Depending on the availability of computers these activities could be used individually, in groups or as a class. For example I would use the element balancing game as a review before assessing balancing equations. These would be activities I would post on a class website for students to access anytime they would like to review.

How will students benefit from this website:
Students would benefit from this website because it is an interactive site with useful and applicable activities for Chemistry 20. The activities are engaging and are encouraging to take ownership of your own learning. This can be used as a resource for students who are struggling with specific topics as an individual assignment .

Entrepenureship 30 Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Subject: Entrepreneurship 30
Unit: Module 1
Topic: Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Core)
Evergreen Curriculum Objectives

Website: Cool Math -Lemonade Stand

Explain how you would use this website:
This website contains an interactive business simulation of a Lemonade Stand. The game simulates owning a lemonade stand and the risks that are involved. Students need to decide how much ice, lemons, sugar and cups they will need to purchase for the day to maximize their potential earnings. Other factors they must consider is the weather because it is an outside business which will effect their potential customers. Also customer satisfaction is a factor. The customers will tell how they feel about the product. Problem solving skills are essential to be successful in the game to establish the supply and demand to creating enough lemonade but not too much that it is wasted. Students will be able to see a hands on application of risk management, supply and demand. This will help students to identify these terms and their application.

How will students benefit from the site:
I believe students will benefit from this site because they able to see the direct affects with risk management and the factor involved in running a small business. Also how important problem solving skills are to see your business create profit. Instead of students being given definitions of these terms they are able to the direct action involved and their application.

Accounting 30

Subject: Accounting 30
Unit: Business Accounting
Topic:Introductory Management Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis

Evergreen Curriculum Objectives

Website: The Turn Around Game

Explain how your students would use this website:
This website contains a simulation game. The students are to use their business and accounting skills to help a struggling music label they will come up with a business plan to help save the music label from closing. The website requires that users have a membership in order tho play. The membership is free so i would create anonymous members or students to use in order to sign in. I would use this simulation game at the end of the unit so students would possess the pre-requisite skills to complete the duties requested of them.
Another possibilty would be partnering the Accounting 30 students up with the Entrepreneurship 30 students to work together to complete the simulation game. Working together combing their skills they have gained from a business and financial perspective.



Explain how this website would enhance student learning:
I believe a simulation game like "The turn around game" can create a collaborative project for students work in small groups. It creates a direct application of accounting 30 and entrepreneureship 30 objectives. Music is a among pop culture that is an popular interest among teenagers.

Biology 20 Diversity for Life

Subject: Biology 20
Unit: Diversity for Life

Topic: Disection

Evergreen Curriculum Link

Website: http://www.froguts.com

Explain how you would have your students use this website

I would use this website as a supplement to the students actually completing a dissection. The website acts as a virtual dissection of a frog. I would have students complete the virtual dissection before completing the physical dissection as a pre-lab. Students would have an understanding of the procedures involved in the dissection the materials they will be working with and the parts of the frog we will be looking for. The virtual dissection could also be used instead of a physical dissection if frogs are not available in the school.


How do you think students would benefit from using the site:
This site is a demo for a software program that your school can purchase that provides a advantageous science resource package; particularly for Biology. The program comes with different specimens to dissect as well as other activities and quizzes. This particular activity if used only as a virtual dissection saves the school money from buying specimens over and over again. If students are actually dissecting can be used a guide for the students. If the school subscribes to the program the students can extend their exploring of biology through the various activities that are available. This would enhance student learning because of the visual guidance that this website has. It gives students visual directions to perform an actual dissection or provides students with a pre-lab to perform a dissection.

Physics 20 SOUND

Grade: 11
Subject: Physics 20
Unit: Sound
Topic: The Human Ear
Website: The Soundry: How we perceive the Ear


Link: Evergreen Curriculum

Explain how you would have your students use this website

This website provides a virtual tour of the outer, inner and middle ear. Throughout the exploration there are explanations about each part and their functions. The objectives in the Physics 20 Curriculum for the unit on Sound states that students will increase their abilities to define the following terms: meatus (auditory canal), tympanic membrane (eardrum), cochlea, auditory nerve, Eustachian tube. Students can do so by labeling a diagram of the ear. I would have students use this website as a guide to help ind the location of these terms and their functions within the ear. Students also need to explain the physical process by which sound signals reaching the ear are transferred from the outer ear to the middle ear. Therefore it is important they understand the functions of each part to connect them in the transferring of the sound.
I would have students work in pairs in a computer lab exploring this site to gain their knowledge and understanding of the Human Ear. This would be one of the first lessons in the Sound Unit. Students would ave a worksheet to help collect their findings on the site.

Explain how your students would benefit from this site:
I believe students would benefit from exploring this website because it not only provides a visual of the parts of the ear but also provides an explanation of where each part is located and their functions. Students would be able to take a constructivist approach to their learning by the teacher providing guidance and the students engaging themselves in their own learning for this topic.

Math 20 Probability

Subject: Math 20
Unit: Probability
Topic: Experimental and Theoretical Probability
Evergreen Curriculum Objectives
F.1 To list the sample space and events for a random experiment.

F.2 To calculate the experimental probability of simple events by performing repeated experiments.

F.3 To calculate the theoretical probability of an event and the probability of its complement.

Website: Experimental Probability

Explain how you would use this site:

This website displays a great demonstration of experimental probability. I would use this website to facilitate the entire class in an interactive demonstration. I would first discuss with the class the theoretical probability of each scenario, then have the students use the website to calculate the experimental probability.

For example: User the spinner application the theoretical probability will depend on the number of colors displayed and how many times. Let's say the spinner has 4 colors (all different). What would be the theoretical probability that the spinner would land on red = 1/4. Therefore we would experiment by spinning it 4 times to see how many times it hits red.

With each scenario I would have students complete more trials. I would continually be asking questions to help students reach a conclusion that the more trials we have in experimental probability the closer we get to the theoretical probability.

I would then try a spinner that contained two colors that were the same. for example, blue, red, yellow, green ,red, and yellow. Next i would have students calculate the theoretical probability of getting yellow. Then we would experiment. This would be a great activity to help reach the adaptive dimension to challenge higher level students.

Explain how your studenst would benefit from this site:
The Site collects the data as the students complete the experimental probability therefore having on hand the complete collection of data for analysis to be used. Students will be visually stimulated by the use of the spinners. This could also be a an interactive site used on a SMARTBOARD. That could be used as a class.

Science 6

Grade: 6
Subject: Science
Unit: Energy in our Lives
Website: Public Science Day
Link: Evergreen Curriculum
2.2 Recognize how individuals use and depend on these forms of energy.

Explain how you would have your students use this website:

This website contains a survey that calculates approximately the amount of energy your house uses approxiamtely per year . It calculates your energy quotient and the amount of kilowatt - hours your household uses annually. I would have students complete this survey on their own. At the end of the survey it shows your energy quotient compared to the average in the United States. Students can see visually the enormous amount we use. After I have students realize the amount of energy our households use approximately annually. I would give students the chance to placed into a position of power in which they can control the energy.Then students can use this interactive simulation game called ENERGY CRISISThis is the simulation:"You have just been elected as Head of Energy of a country. It is your responsibility to minimize the effects of the future crisis on your population.You will be allowed to choose attributes of your country. A larger population requires more energy, but increases the probability that your scientists discover new energy sources. Similarly, you can determine the education level of your population. The greater the education, the more likely it is that your scientists discover new energy sources. Wealth, though helpful in maintaining your country, doesn't last forever. Your main goal is to find lasting sources of energy, not accumulate money. Finally, you also have the ability to determine the extent of your country's natural resources. These include oil deposits, coal mines, forests, water, and nuclear fuel. "

Explain how you think it would enhance your student's learning:

I believe both of these interactive websites would be beneficial to enhance student's learning because it directly involves their own households. Students can begin thinking of change in theirown households. The simulation activity helps students see energy from a more global perspective. I would move on from these two activities to a lesson on renewable energy sources. Helping students see the alternative energy sources.

Math 9 Data Management

Subject: Math 9
Unit: Data Management
Topic: Organizing and displaying data
Evergreen Curriculum Objectives


Website: Billy the Bug (Coordinate Plane)

Explain how you would have your students use the website

In the Math 9 unit on data management the students need to display data using scatterplots. Scatterplots are created using a coordinate plane and points. Students will need to become familiar with the coordinate plane. This website contains an excellent activity that is engaging and familiarizes students with the coordinate plane, x and y axis, and points. Students are asked to help feed Billy the bug and his quest for food. Students will be given and x and y value and are asked to guide him to that point where is food is located. I would use this website as an introduction to scatterplots.

Explain how it would enhance your student's learning

Students will benefit from this interactive website because students will become familiar with the common mistakes such as mixing up the x and y axis on the graph as well as the point. Also it is engaging and will reach the pre-requisite needed to create a scatterplot.

Wellness 10

Subject:Wellness 10
Unit: Dimensions of Wellness
Topic: Physical Dimension
Evergreen Curriculum Objectives

Website:
FitQuest - WebQuest

Explain how you would have your students use it.
This website contains a webquest about personal fitness. After teaching students and having them participate in various sports, weight training and personal fitness activities I would use this WebQuest at a time when the gym is unavaliable.

Explain how you think it would improve your student's learning.

This webquest would enhance students learning because they are to apply their knowledge about personal fitness to creating a fitness plan. Students can learn how to create their own personal fitness plan that is unique to meet their needs. Also these websites will be resourceful to the students for future reference.

Math 9 Perimeter

Subject: Math 8
Unit: Geometry/Measurement
Topic: Length
Curriculum: Evergreen Curriculum
G/M-48
calculate the perimeter of

1. composite figures given the lengths of the sides
2. figures given partial, but sufficient, information

Website: Shodor Interactive - Perimeter Explorer
Shoder Interactive - Area Explorer

Explain how you would have your students use it.

In my internship I taught a unit on area and perimeter a Math 9 Non-semestered course. I was exposed to the frustration students were having between identifying the differences between area and perimeter . I used a lot of hands on activities but found that the students were just going through the motion and did not have to identify the differences.

This website I found contains a variety of activities for Math. Two Java Applets in particular I found that will help students are the perimeter explorer and area explorer. They both use a grid lines to identify the magnitude of one. Students are asked to find the perimeter of irregular or square objects. They use color to identify the objects on the grid.

I would use this assignment as an exploration to find perimeter and area of objects. Students would answer 5 questions from each applet. The websites also contain a feature that corrects you answers and contains them in a chart that compares the perimeters and areas of each object. What I would guide the students to notice would be that the area of objects can be the same but the perimeters can differ, and vice versa. The chart allows students to conjecture this difference.

I would use this as a exploration activity in class after i have done a formal lesson on perimeter and area. The students would be evaluated on their conjectures by answering short answer questions.

Explain how you think it would improve your students learning.

I believe students would benefit from this because they can access a variety of questions in a short time, and the grid paper helps them notice that area covers the object and perimeter is the distance around.

Math A30 Data Analysis (WEB 2.0)

Subject: Math A30
Unit: Data Analysis
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
B.1
To list and describe the methods used to collect data.
B.2
To obtain data for real-world situations by using simulations (such as Monte Carlo simulations).
B.3
To review the methods for determining the measures of central tendency.
B.4
To construct box and whisker plots from simulated data.
B.5
To define and utilize the concept of percentiles (including the first, second, and third quartiles).
B.6
To solve related problems using statistical inference.

Website: Stellar Survey

This website allows you to create a free online survey. You can create multiple choice questions, rating scales, short answers etc. (25 types of questions). Once you've created your survey you can create a link to your survey that you could post on a website or e-mail to other people in order to collect your data. Then they have a variety of resources that help you to display your data and interpret it.

When I saw this website Math A30 Data analysis came to mind. I would use this website as a method that students can use to collect data that they will interpret. One of the curriculum objectives in this unit is to collect data from real world situations by using simulations. Students could create their very own survey in each their peers will answer. Once they have collected their data I would have them construct box and whisker plots as well as demonstrate the first, second and third quartiles.

One key fact to tell students when they creating their own survey is that it must be numerical data for example How many siblings do you have? compared to What color of pen do you prefer to use? The question the students will be surveying will need to quantitative not qualitative.

I would use this as an overall project for this unit. Incorporating objectives as they arise in each lesson.

I'm excited to give this a try. I'll post again if I do to let you know how it goes.

I think students would benefit from it because it reaches a lot of the Common Essential Learnings found in the curriculum such as:

• Communication; using e-mail to communicate or a website
• Numeracy; understanding the quantitative data collection
• Critical and Creative Thinking; students can create their own survey about a topic that interests them. Critical thinking will occur curing interpreting the data.
• Technological Literacy; Reading the website as well as understanding how to navigate and use the website
• Personal and Social Values and Skills; Students can personalize their survey and incorporate an investigation about what is important to them
• Independent Learning. Students must create their own survey and interpret their own data. As an extra depending on the topics they chose they research what the percentages are if it was a world survey.

Math A30 Relations and Functions

Subject: Math A30
Unit: Relations and Functions
Topic: Quadratic Functions - Standard Form
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
Website: Graphing Calculator


This website contains a free online graohing calucaltor. Depending on the budget in your school some may not have access to handheld gaphing calculators, therefore websties like this can benefit your students.

I would use the online graphing calcualtor to assist students in a discovery lesson in which the students will conjecture the applications of each variable that is in standard graphing formI would give students a handout of quadratic equations such as:
y= 2x^2
y= 2(x-3)^2+5
y=2(x+3)^2+5
y=8(x+3)^2 +5
y= 2(x+3)^2 -5

Students would copy down after a sketch of what each of the graphs looked like. The equations' variables would change slightly becasue I want the students to visually how the graph is affected by a changing a variable. In conclusion I would want students to realize what purpose each variable has in the equations.

Example:

a = changes the width of the parabola, smaller the variable the larger the parabola

h = x point of the vertex will move the parabola from left to right

q = y point of the vertes will move the parabola up and down

I belive students would benfit from this application of graphing because they can visually see the graphs and make a connection between the equation and the graph. I would move on from this lesson by going on to discuss min, max, range, domain etc.

Math 9 Algebra

Subject: Math 9
Unit: Algebra
Topic: Solving Equations
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
Website: Virtual Manipuliatives - Algebra Balance Scale

This website contains vairety of virtual manipulatives for mathematics ranging from K-12 and around topics such as algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers and operations, Data analysis and problem solving. In Math 9 their is a unit on algebra. Many times this is the first time students have begun to solve equations. The idea of keeping equations balanced when solving can be complicated to some students. The metaphor of keeping the equation balanced on a scale helps students visullay see the idea.

This website has a java applet that allows students to create a balanced equation on a scale then solve the equation, but if the equation is not solved correctly the scale becomes unbalanced. I would use this website not only to demonstrate solving equations but allow students to use the virtual manipulative as well. After teaching students how to create ones and zeros when solving for X, I would use this applet as an assignment that day.

The assignment would be to answer 15 questions that the applet gives you and to answer 2 questions that you create. I believe maniplulatives enhance student learners because they help reach visual, tactile and concrete learners. It gives students a more concrete idea of how to solve equations. Another resource they can us in order to successfully understand and apply the concept.

Math A 30 Angles and Polygons

Subject: Math A30
Unit: Angles and Polygons
Topic: Six Trig Functions
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
Website:
Six Trig Functions

This website contains an applet that allows you to change the angle along the unit circle and it will calculate the sin, tan, cos, sec, cosec, and cotan. I would use this applet in a discovery activity. I would have students find which quadrants each are positive and negative in and why using the trigonometric ratios. I would use guided questions to help the students find each. This could be used as a set to the lesson.

Students would benefit from this becasue they are actually conjecturing and taking ownership of their own learning. After we have discovered the positive and negative quadrants for each trigonmetric ratio, then i would give students the common acronym to memorize the quadrants (CAST: C= Cosine is positive , A= All trigonometric ratios are positive , S= Sin is positive, T = Tangent is positive)

Science Grade 5

Subject: Science Grade 5
Unit: Human Circulation
Topic: The heart and it's functions
Objectives:
Evergreen Curriculum

Website: Argosy Multimedia

This site contains many interactive applets. In the grade 5 science curriculum one of the objectives is that students should be able to identify parts of the heart and understand the functions.

I would use this website in an inquiry lesson about the heart. I would create a guided handout that will guide students through the names of the chambers and their functions as well as the arteries. This website allows students to explore the heart. I believe students would benefit more learning from a website like this compared to an overhead that just displays the diagrams. Students can take ownership of their own learning.

Biology 30 Genetics

Subject: Biology 30
Unit: Genetics
Topic: Mitosis and Meiosis
Objectives:
Evergreen Curriculum


Website: Cells Alive - Meiosis
Cells Alive - Mitosis

Cells alive is a website tha contains interactive diagrams, activities, and processes. This is an excellent site that is a good resource for biology teachers.

I would use this site in Biology 30 as a demonstration of the two processes of Mitosis and Meiosis. I would have the students compare and contrast the two processes by viewing the interactive demonstration. The website allows you to stop and view more details about each stage this will allow the students to read more indepth about each stage in order to compare.
Another benefit for the students is the fact that it is on the web will allow the students to use the interactive applet to study from.

This adds more realism to the two processes allowing more learning to occur.
Here is an example of photos of each stage in each process. The applet allows the students to view how we get from one stage to the next.

Math 9 Integers

Subject: Math 9

Unit: Numbers and Operations and Analysis
Topic: Integers

Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum

I would use this website in a introduction activity to integers. After perfoming a pre-assessment on integers I would create 4 groups made up of all the students and designate roles to each student. The interesting integers website contains instructions for each group to investigate integers by completing four activities:


Activity One: Finding out about negative numbers in the real world.

Activity Two: How can you show that the rules for adding and subtracting integers are true?
Activity Three: Sharing what you have learned

Activity Four: Putting what you have learned to work.

Each Activity will take one day and could be used as a set.

The activities help students see the real-life applications of integers. The website also includes rubrics to assess each activity.

Website: Interesting Integers

I believe this website would help students conjecture real life applications of integers. This will also help with students attitudes and beliefs towards matheatics because they see direct use for it and will therefore be engaged to learn about integers.

Math 9 Geometry

Subject:Math 9
Unit: Geometry/Measurement
Topic: Angles, Lines and Line Segments
Objectives:
Evergreen Curriculum

This website is an interactive discovery activity that using questions, protractor and angles as a way for students to deduct their own conjectures about specific angles.
I would use this website as an introduction activity or set to my first lesson on the unit Geometry/Measurement in the Math 9 curriculum. The website provides 20 activities. Students should be able to discovery the relationships found in each activity and will be able to deduct their own theorems through pattern recognition. The activities help students conjecture theorems such as:
- Vertically opposite angles are equal
-All angles in a triangle ass up to 180 degrees
- All angles in a rectangle add up to 360 degrees
- Corresponding interior angles are equal
- Alternate interior angles are equal
- Angle of a straight line is 180 degrees


WebSite: Angle Activities

Physics 30 Newtons Laws of Motion

Subject: Physics 30
Unit:Kinematics and Dynamics
Topic:Newtons laws of motion
Objectives: Evergreen Curriculum
When a net force acts on an object, it accelerates in the direction of the net force. (Newton's second law)
The acceleration is directly proportional to the force for a constant mass:
The acceleration is inversely proportional to the mass if the force is constant:
If an object is accelerating there must be a net force acting on the object in the direction of the acceleration.
The relationship between the SI units for force and the corresponding fundamental units can be illustrated from Newton's second law.
(i.e., 1 N = 1 kg m/s2)

Website: Newtons Second Law

This website contains an applet that has a table of values for a force and mass. After selecting one of each it will calculate what the acceleration of the specific object will be. Through pattern recognition students will be able to conjecture the proportionality between the parameters or the formula F= MA.

I would use this applet as a set to a lesson when teaching Newton's second law of motion. Students would be able to experiment by using different values and begin to develop a conjecture through pattern recognition. I believe they might be able to remember the formula better and apply the formula the first time they see it. Instead of just having them copy down the formula. I believe experential learning has the greatest impact on someone's memory.

Math 9 Percent

Subject: Math 9
Unit: Ratios and Proportions
Topic: Percents
Objectives:
Learning Objective
R-21solve real-life percent problems about
percent increase and decrease
compound interest, service charges
Website: Math Playground - Percent Shopping

This is an ineractive website that guides students through application questions refering to percent increase and decrease regarding retail. Students will be able to relate to the questions because they are real life applications.

I would use this website as an assignment on percent application questions. I would create a handout that students would need to fill out with the questions they create. So I can assess their learning for that particular day. The website provides helpful hints for the students that are struggling with these particular questions.

This website would enhance students learning because it is engaging and provides real life application that students will be able to apply outside the classroom

Math C-30 Conics unit

Subject: Math C30
Unit: Conics
Topic: Ellipse
Objectives in the curriculum this website will assist:
Foundational Objective
To become aware of the various conic sections and to demonstrate skill in graphing and writing equations of the conic sections
Learning Objective
B.3.b)
To sketch the graph of an ellipse.
Website: Analyze Math

I would have my students use this applet as an exploration activity on ellipses. After teaching the equation of an ellipse


I would have students discover how changing the different parameters (such as h, k, a, and b) changes the graph. Also students would have already learned the equation and graph of a circle they will be able to link the simliarities of the equations and graphs. I would have students go through the activity on the website that guides the students to conjecture the patterns between the graph and equation. I would have students write about what they have discovered and conjectured. This applet is a timesaver, compared to the pencil and paper method. The applet allows the students to view many graphs with different parameters in seconds.

This would enhance student learning because they are able to take ownership of their own learning by using experiential learning instead of direct instruction.

FIRST POST

Created my first blog today. It was a very easy step by step process that I would be able to teach someone else to create.

Today in my Education Math class I learned a new video website that is teacher friendly and provides educational videos on demand it's called Teacher Tube.