User talk:Patricia.Loeblein/sandbox

1.I have read several of the week one suggested reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO/Week_1 Read this: [edit] These readings will help you get a general familiarity with Wikipedia. You do not need to read every page, but we hope you will find them useful in getting a general feel for the site. The last item will give you some background on open educational resources. General overview: WP:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Some insights: WP:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia The following chapters in How Wikipedia Works (PDF) (2008): Chap. 1: What's in Wikipedia? Chap. 2: The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia Chap. 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article Chap. 6: Good Writing and Research MLearning. Watch this: [edit] If you'd like to review the "view history" tab (covered in the Week 1 webinar), see this instructional video. Week one class session archive from previous WIKISOO course Week one lab session archive from previous WIKISOO course 2. I watched videos about how to make a users page and how to contact other team members. 3. Made a users page, figured out what Sandbox is for and am using it to keep track of my homework, emailed a team member.

Ideas for PhET article
1)http://www.jce.divched.org/blog/physics-2000 by Deanna Cullen Comment Submitted by ALFREDO TIFI on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 01:59 I use PhET's "Build an Atom", it's amazing and rich of "embedded" concepts. Students sense out arguments (classic views obviously) for the impossibility of putting the third electron in the first orbit. the Also useful to talk about the limits of that model (e.g.: fixed orbits). Anyway I believe that simulations could drift the teacher to overlook the development of the special ability to create student's own images and conscious representations (that can be put in words, adjusted and shared) that are particularly important in chemistry education. With the youngers there is a risk that either the simulation is identified with reality or that the model inhibits the autonomous search for such images and representations. For that reason, for example, I am used to work on the kinetic-molecular model bith two sole ingredients, that are observed phenomena and imagination and I work on the atom's model by really executing Rutherford-Geiger-Marsden experiments in a remote controlled laboratory (http://rcl-munich.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/)and again using that faculty of imagination to figure out which model (or kind of fruit) best fits to the observations.

comment PhET animations Submitted by Judy Cheng on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 09:12 I have found the one on gas laws to be very useful as well. It is a gem of a resource for both classroom use and student use.

2) http://www.jce.divched.org/blog/stoichiometry-resources by Deanna Cullen After introducing STOICHIOMETRY, I use a simulation from PhET called Reactants, Products and Leftovers. I use Trish Loeblein’s Activity 1: Intro to Chemical Reactions and Limiting Reactants and some of her clicker questions as formative assessment items when my students have completed their work. The students build cheese sandwiches before moving on to chemical reactions. I refer to those cheese sandwiches many times as students work to master stoichiometry problems in the following days.

Shout Out to PhET: If you have not used PhET simulations, explore the site right now! PhET provides researched based interactive simulations through the University of Colorado at Boulder. Along with the simulations, you can find an assortment of activities/handouts/ clicker questions and more. Trish Loeblein has posted a list of chemistry simulations she uses throughout the year. I have used and modified other activities that are available on the site, but I know I can depend on Trish’s to be a good fit for my needs. I use the simulations in teacher led discussions, as a student activity or homework and I sometimes incorporate a simulation as part of a lab to help students see what is invisible (at the particulate level). This has been beneficial in developing a deeper understanding and making connections.Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 21:53, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

still fixing references
I realize that I need to use the template even for web pages to get rid of inline links. This is taking longer than I thought. I will finish after noonPatricia.Loeblein (talk) 15:52, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * done and saved on PhET article Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 15:13, 22 June 2013 (UTC)