Education Standards
While administrations look for new paradigms of teaching, the material covered by high school chemistry does not change a great deal. Discovery
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder
This is a link to the page that limits that autonomy. Chemistry curriculum standards are here.
Sometimes it is nice to look up information provided by the United States Government. These sites provide a lot of information to help add current information to your class.
Common Core:
For Science: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Presentations: Lecture and Lab. Click on the photo for ideas for the chemistry classroom and laboratory.
Maybe we should have labeled it....
Site with links to chemistry sources
Equipment used in a high quality STEM laboratory in the United States.
State of the art distillation
equipment.
Active learning
Electron movement around nucleus ->
<- State of the art filtering equipment.
Our balance room. Where we reinforce algebraic rules...
Trying to teach that Common Core.....
STATE of the ARK.....
Recent photo of my lab.
