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Blogger - Students create unique and insightful blog posts to enhance their learning

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Blogger - Students create unique and insightful blog posts to enhance their learning

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Blogger is an online blogging tool that will be used by students to capture and share their learning with others.  Students can embed links, insert pictures, and personalise their blogs which will encourage uptake of the tool.  It also provides a valuable collaboration platform where other students can share their thoughts and work, can view the work of their peers, and comment and discuss ideas.  I utilise this within the classroom as a warm-up and exit ticket.  As an exit ticket, students paste links or reflect upon the lesson’s work.  The next less, as a warm-up, students review the blogs of two students and add insightful comments to each.  This acts as revision of the previous lesson but also supports sharing of ideas between students, encourages students to reflect on their own understanding and collaborating between peers.

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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

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Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

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Problem-based Learning - Building a periodic table

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Problem-based Learning - Building a periodic table

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This is a fantastic problem-based learning exercise for students where they can utilise the higher order pedagogy to synthesize their understanding of periodic table trends, assess element information provided and arrange elements in appropriate order.  This task requires students to utilise their existing knowledge of the periodic table, atomic structure, atomic mass, and atomic radii to evaluate patterns and trends in a real-world application.

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This website outlines what the periodic table is and how it is set up.

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The brilliance of the table is that a chemist can determine characteristics of an element based on another in the same group or period.

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The PTable website provides an interactive periodic table, which provides information beyond that of a standard printed periodic table.  Students can use this website to access information on each class of element, the natural state of elements as well information pertaining to the various groups and periods.  In addition to this, students can select various options such as the natural states (solid, liquid, gas, unknown), the classes of elements (e.g. metals, non-metals), and the interactive periodic table will highlight the elements that belong to these categories.  A benefit of using PTable to support higher order pedagogy is that it provides a lot of information at students’ fingertips and allows them to explore the information and identify patterns and trends in the element arrangement.

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Interactive periodic table showing names, electrons, and oxidation states. Visualize trends, 3D orbitals, isotopes, and mix compounds. Fully descriptive writeups.

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This website outlines what an atom is.

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What is an atom?

An atom a fundamental piece of matter. (Matter is anything that can be touched physically.) Everything in the universe (except energy) is made of matter, and, so, everything in the universe is made of atoms.

An atom itself is made up of three tiny kinds of particles called subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. The protons and the neutrons make up the center of the atom called the nucleus and the electrons fly around above the nucleus in a small cloud. The electrons carry a negative charge and the protons carry a positive charge. In a normal (neutral) atom the number of protons and the number of electrons are equal. Often, but not always, the number of neutrons is the same, too.

The negative electrons are attracted to the positive nucleus by the same electrical force which causes magnets to work. That's what keeps the atom together.

How could something as small as an atom move a space craft?
What is a propellant?

How are atoms charged? How do you make an ion?

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An atom a fundamental piece of matter. (Matter is anything that can be touched physically.) Everything in the universe (except energy) is made of matter, and, so, everything in the universe is made of atoms. An atom itself is made up of three tiny kinds of particles called subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons.

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Watch this video to obtain an overview of the atom.

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What is the periodic table? (Youtube Video)

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What is the periodic table? (Youtube Video)

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Watch this video which gives an overview of the periodic table.

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The Periodic Table: Crash Course Chemistry #4

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Read this document. It gives an overview of atomic structure and introduces the protons, neutrons and electrons.

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Structure of the atom - Atomic structure - AQA - GCSE Chemistry (Single Science) Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize

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Learn about and revise atomic structure with this BBC Bitesize GCSE Chemistry (AQA) study guide.

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Watch this video which gives a good overview of atomic structure.

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Atomic Structure And Electrons - Structure Of An Atom - What Are Atoms - Neutrons Protons Electrons

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Interactive module that introduces atomic structure

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The Phet Colorado website is a tool that allows the operator to build their own atoms by selecting the number of protons, neutrons and electrons.  As additional protons are selected, the identity of the element changes.  These are shown to be in the nucleus of the created atom along with neutrons and the electrons fall into the correct shell according to the number added.  This reinforces atomic structure to students, allows students to test and prove their theoretical learning by visualising the change in element identity with the modification of subatomic particles and provides a tool for students to easily see patterns relating to subatomic particle numbers and location, element identity and atomic size.  Utilising this tool, students can synthesise their knowledge of the periodic table and atomic structure and further solidify their understanding.

The Phet Colorado website also allows students to check their understanding, providing immediate feedback.  Phet Colorado provides ‘challenges’ which assesses student learning on content pertaining to the website.  For example, the ‘Build an Atom’ challenge, provides five questions which will assess students’ understanding of this topic.

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Location, charge and mass

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Students and teachers can use this tool to see the arrangement of atoms and the associated bonds in 2D and 3D.

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An addictive gamified environment that provides users with a clear sense of a range of protein characteristics from hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions and bonding (hydrogen, disulfide) and amino acid side chains and levels of structure (primary, secondary & tertiary).  Learning in Foldit is potentially unlimited with users now designing proteins for a range of real-world applications.

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Sick of the usual paper-based exit tickets? Try out one of these digital options.

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Class is done. We've learned a lot. We've tried some new things. We've had some great discussions.

So ... now what?

How can we make the most of the end of class? How can we tie a bow on a day of class to wrap everything up?

An exit ticket gives us that opportunity - much like bell-ringer activities help us kick class off effectively.

The name "exit ticket" makes it sound like you need a ticket to exit the room, but exit tickets are final quick check-ins with students before class wraps up.

What can we do with exit tickets?

In an article in the publication Educational Leadership by ASCD, Robert Marzano explains that there are four kinds of prompts teachers often use with exit slips - prompts that ...

Provide formative assessment data (How would you rate your current level of understanding of what we did today?)

Stimulate student analysis (How hard did you work today? What could you have done to help yourself learn better?)

Focus on instructional strategies (How did the group work today help you understand the content?)

Are open communications to the teacher (What could I do differently to help you understand better?)

Exit tickets are also a research-based best practice for several reasons ...

Exit tickets are a pretty versatile tool. We can use exit tickets one day as formative assessment and on another day to check in on students' feelings to learning.

Armed with this data, it can inform your instruction instantly - as soon as the next day or even later on in that same day!

So ... what does this look like in a classroom? What digital tools can help us with exit tickets? I have 10 ideas for both!

BONUS: The Exit Ticket Builder for Google Slides and PowerPoint

Having some ideas for exit ticket prompts can save you time AND help you remix them to meet the needs of your students.

Here I'll share 10 exit ticket prompts ... but let's take it a step further!

These prompts are part of my FREE Exit Ticket Builder template for Google Slides and PowerPoint! With this template, you can quickly add any of the 20 pre-made exit ticket prompts to your slide deck -- then assign it to students.

Flip through the slides below to see all the exit ticket ideas in the Exit Ticket Builder.

Then, make a copy in Google Slides or PowerPoint to assign to your students!

10 ideas for exit ticket prompts

Here are 10 exit ticket prompt ideas that you can use to wrap up your class ...

1. Do you agree or disagree with the topic today? Describe why. If you're studying a topic that has two or more sides, this lets the student decide where he/she stands and why.

2. How are you doing? Just a simple social-emotional check-in can give the teacher valuable information and help the student to feel seen and heard.

10 digital tools for exit tickets

The traditional way of doing exit tickets is with slips of paper. That's totally fine. But we do have plenty of digital options that give us variety.

The great thing about many of these is that you can re-use them. For many, you can create them once and use the same (or similar) questions and templates without having to reinvent the wheel.

Here are some digital tools and ideas for using them for using digital exit tickets in the classroom.

1. Socrative

Use Socrative ( socrative.com) for to ask a quick question or do a quick poll at the end of class. The quick question option lets you ask a super-fast open-ended or multiple choice question. Plus, Socrative has a built-in exit ticket option, asking students ...

how well they understood the day's lesson (multiple choice)

what they learned (open-ended)

to answer an additional question from the teacher, maybe one you ask verbally (open-ended)

Benefits: It's fast and summarizes your info quickly on one screen.

2. Google Forms

Creating a quick Google Form ( forms.google.com) can let you customize your exit ticket experience. Building your exit ticket with Forms, Google's survey tool, lets you add a variety of question types. Plus, you can also display videos, images and text. The drag and drop interface of Google Forms makes it pretty easy to pull together an exit ticket. When you're done, use the "Send" button to give your students a link. View results in the "Responses" tab and even export them to a spreadsheet.

Benefits: You get more question types and multimedia. You can view graphs of responses quickly.

3. Pear Deck

Pear Deck ( peardeck.com) works with slide presentation tools (easiest, in my opinion: Google Slides, with the Pear Deck add-on) to make slides interactive. Have a quick slide deck pre-created for the end of class. Design slides visually - or use the pre-created slides in Pear Deck's slide library in the Google Slides add-on. Students interact on their screen, drawing, dragging and typing. Pear Deck has a paid premium version, but there's a lot you can do with its free version.

Benefits: Questions are visual, hands-on and interactive.

4. Flipgrid

Using Flipgrid ( flipgrid.com) as an exit ticket means you get to see and hear your students via video. Create a simple prompt. Give your students a link to it - or assign it in Google Classroom - or provide students the QR code to answer it. Students respond in their browser (or with the mobile app). It's one thing to see text on a screen. It's another to be able to read your students' body language and vocal intonation.

Benefits: You can learn more from watching how your students answer via video sometimes.

5. Synth

Like the idea of video responses but prefer to respond with audio? Synth ( gosynth.com) makes responding with your voice digitally feel like a conversation. Students can leave short audio responses to a question - perfect for exit tickets. But they can also respond to each other's recordings, making it feel more like an asynchronous conversation over time.

Benefits: This lets you hear your students' voices - and lets them practice answering with their voices.

6. Kahoot!

You're likely familiar with this classroom staple by now. We often use Kahoot! ( kahoot.com) for reviewing. However, we can also use it for exit tickets. Create a new survey Kahoot! instead of the traditional quiz game. Surveys still have multiple choices, but they aren't scored. It takes the competitive edge off and lets students be more thoughtful with their answers.

Benefits: It uses a familiar interface that students likely connect to having fun. Plus, students can answer quickly and easily.

7. Google Slides

Google Slides is for way more than oral presentations in front of class! Create a new slide presentation and share it with students, making it "everyone can edit". ( Instructions in this blog post.) Each student gets a slide on the slide deck for responding. Give students a question or prompt to respond to at the end of class. Note that everyone can see everyone's slides, so this wouldn't be ideal for fact recall or for sensitive personal questions. Because of the design freedom in Google Slides, it opens up what students can create for you quickly!

Benefits: The design tools mean students can quickly make something visual with text, images, lines, shapes, etc.

8. Formative

Formative ( goformative.com) is like using Google Forms in some ways. But it offers even more flexibility. There are TONS of question types. One of my favorites is the "Show Your Work" question where students draw their answers. If you ask multiple-choice questions, it will autograde the responses.

Benefits: Have students draw their answers using the "Show Your Work" question type.

9. Poll Everywhere

Using Poll Everywhere ( polleverywhere.com) lets you create a quick poll with lots of options. You can add images to your polls and even rank items instead of just choosing one.

Benefits: Ask students to rank multiple items.

10. Seesaw

Teachers love Seesaw ( seesaw.me) because it creates a digital learning community. It's a bit like social media (think Facebook) for the classroom. For exit tickets, students can post to their Seesaw classroom and snap a picture of what they've been working on. They can even annotate it by drawing and labeling.

Benefits: Marking up images can help students show what they know.

Exit tickets that DON'T use technology

Technology opens up lots of opportunities to assess, create and gather data in unique ways.

That doesn't mean we HAVE to use technology, though. Sometimes, the data we want to gather can be done faster - or more meaningfully - without technology.

Here are some ideas:

The sticky note mosaic: Grab a few pads of sticky notes of different colors. Tell students what each color stands for: something that know for sure, something they're still unclear on, something they need to tell the teacher, etc. Stick the sticky notes on the board randomly or in groups as they leave. The colors will help you sort them quickly.

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Class is done. How can we end it effectively? Using digital exit tickets can bring closure to your day. Here are 10 you can use tomorrow.

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Excellent visual mind mapping tool that integrates with images and video as well as links to online resources.

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In the Australian Curriculum: Science, there are six key ideas that represent key aspects of a scientific view of the world and bridge knowledge and understanding across the disciplines of science, as shown Figure 1 below. These are embedded within each year level description and guide the teaching/learning emphasis for the relevant year level.

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The general capabilities in the Australian Curriculum equip young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions.

The seven capabilities can be divided into two broad groups:

1. capabilities that support students to be successful learners

Literacy

Numeracy

Information and communication technology (ICT) capability

Critical and creative thinking.

2. capabilities that develop ways of being, behaving and learning to live with others

Personal and social capability

Ethical understanding

Intercultural understanding.

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The general capabilities in the Australian Curriculum equip young Australians to live and work successfully in the twenty-first century. The capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions. The seven capabilities can be divided into two broad groups: capabilities that support students to be successful learners Literacy Numeracy Information and communication technology (ICT) capability Critical and creative thinking.

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The three cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian Curriculum provide students with the tools and language to better understand their world at a range of levels.

The three priorities are:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

Sustainability.

The priorities focus on national, regional and global dimensions that enrich the curriculum by developing content that aligns naturally within the learning areas. They enable the delivery of learning area content while also developing knowledge, understanding and skills relating to the three priorities.

Cross-curriculum priorities: Advice and resources

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The three cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian Curriculum provide students with the tools and language to better understand their world at a range of levels. The three priorities are: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia Sustainability.

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A graphic organiser is used to help students organise and store knowledge. They can be used to draw attention to processes regarding any topic as it is adaptable. It is important that these sheets are used to promote deeper thinking rather than just sheets students mindlessly complete. Graphic organisers in the PE classroom can be used to compare different sports and rules between touch football, NRL, rugby union etc.

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Free Teaching Resources - Graphic Organizers

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Icons, small graphics and clip art of school related things.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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From the PTable website "In this activity, students will use the online periodic table, ptable.com, to investigate a number of chemistry concepts. Students will use this online resource to explore information about the elements, including historical data, physical properties, periodic trends and more."

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Summary

In this activity, students will use the online periodic table, ptable.com, to investigate a number of chemistry concepts. Students will use this online resource to explore information about the elements, including historical data, physical properties, periodic trends and more.

Grade Level

High or middle school

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to

Better understand how the periodic table is organized.

Identify several trends on the periodic table.

Classify elements by family name, group number and period number.

Understand the periodic trend of atomic radius.

Chemistry Topics

Periodic Table

Periodic Trends

History

Physical Properties

Time

Teacher Preparation: minimal

Lesson: 30-60 minutes (time will vary depending on activity chosen)

Materials

Computer, tablet or mobile device (internet access is needed)

Student handouts

Safety

No specific safety precautions need to be observed for this activity.

Teacher Notes

This activity includes three possible student lessons: a scavenger hunt, a periodic table investigation and self-guided investigation of atomic radius.

The Scavenger Hunt: This lesson will allow students to become familiar with ptable.com. It questions students as it walks them through the many features of the website. Students will investigate a large number of topics, from physical properties to history of the elements, and will conclude the activity by watching several videos available on the website.

Periodic Table Investigation: This lesson is a self-guided introduction to the basics of the periodic table, including grouping, family names and period assignments. Students will also investigate common properties within a family, identify numbers of valence electrons, and create Bohr models for elements.

Atomic Radius Exploration: This lesson is designed as a self-guided investigation for students to explore the trend in atomic radius on the periodic table. Students will collect and interpret data from this interact website to support their understanding of this trend.

There is an answer key provided for each of the student resources for the teacher's reference.

Teachers should be actively involved in checking the students work, reviewing answers to ensure accuracy and elaborating on concepts when needed.

www.ptable.com would be a valuable resource for many activities found in the AACT resource library, such as: Periodic Trends Investigation and Element Skit.

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Classroom Resources | Ptable.com Investigations | AACT

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In this activity, students will use the online periodic table, ptable.com, to investigate a number of chemistry concepts. Students will use this online resource to explore information about the elements, including historical data, physical properties, periodic trends and more.

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A quick and easy way to visualise and analyse data. A great intro for Year 7s.

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Data Explorer | This web tool provides a quick and easy way of visualizing and analyzing data without advanced technological requirements. With Data Explorer, students can easily create a variety of plots to visualize data. They can also quickly generate statistical summaries and perform hypothesis testing with a variety of tests.

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A wide range of topics covered by video and accompanying worksheets by Paul Anderson.

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https://padlet.com/tonypage/Bookmarks

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Ethics for Technology Use in the Classroom

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Ethics for Technology Use in the Classroom

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How to ensure that students are aware of all ethical considerations before venturing into the realm of technolgoy in the classroom

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Ethics for Technology Use in the Classroom

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Responsible use of ICT in the Classroom - AITSL

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Responsible use of ICT in the Classroom - AITSL

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Two sisters on a mission to demystify science. Lots of resources for mostly biology.

Thanks to Tony Page for finding this one
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A random name picker that can be used to answer questions, in activities, or for volunteers.

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Runs or replicates test of adequacy of model.

Report the covariance matrix or set of dependencies.

Easily interpolate points from the best fit curve.

Fit straight lines to two data sets and determine the intersection point and both slopes.

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Component selection via Parallel Analysis (Monte Carlo simulation), Kaiser criterion (Eigenvalue threshold), Proportion of Variance threshold, and more.

Automatically generated Scree Plots, Loading Plots, Biplots, and more.

Use results in downstream applications like Principal Component Regression.

Multiple Variable Graphing

Specify variables defining axis coordinates, color, and size.

Create Bubble Plots.

Column Statistics

Calculate descriptive statistics: min, max, quartiles, mean, SD, SEM, CI, CV, skewness, kurtosis.

Mean or geometric mean with confidence intervals.

Frequency distributions (bin to histogram), including cumulative histograms.

Normality testing by four methods (new: Anderson-Darling).

Lognormality test and likelihood of sampling from normal (Gaussian) vs. lognormal distribution.

Create QQ Plot as part of normality testing.

One sample t test or Wilcoxon test to compare the column mean (or median) with a theoretical value.

Identify outliers using Grubbs or ROUT method.

Analyze a stack of P values, using Bonferroni multiple comparisons or the FDR approach to identify "significant" findings or discoveries.

Simple Linear Regression and Correlation

Calculate slope and intercept with confidence intervals.

Force the regression line through a specified point.

Fit to replicate Y values or mean Y.

Test for departure from linearity with a runs test.

Calculate and graph residuals in four different ways (including QQ plot).

Compare slopes and intercepts of two or more regression lines.

Interpolate new points along the standard curve.

Pearson or Spearman (nonparametric) correlation.

Generalized Linear Models (GLMs)

Generate models relating multiple independent variables to a single dependent variable using the new multiple variables data table.

Multiple linear regression (when Y is continuous).

Poisson regression (when Y is counts; 0, 1, 2, ...).

Logistic regression (when Y is binary; yes/no, pass/fail, etc.).

Clinical (Diagnostic) Lab Statistics

Bland-Altman plots.

Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves.

Deming regression (type ll linear regression).

Simulations

Simulate XY, Column or Contingency tables.

Repeat analyses of simulated data as a Monte-Carlo analysis.

Plot functions from equations you select or enter and parameter values you choose.

Other Calculations

Area under the curve, with confidence interval.

Transform data.

Normalize.

Identify outliers.

Normality tests.

Transpose tables.

Subtract baseline (and combine columns).

Compute each value as a fraction of its row, column or grand total.

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A series of auto-graded virtual laboratories that could be used as teaching resources and formative assessment tasks. Enables students to get timely feedback on their performance in their learning and how they can improve. Because their are no repercussions for failure with their experimentation students would be more likely to explore variable manipulations as there are no negative or dangerous repercussions.

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You have a summer internship working in a jewellery laboratory where your job is to explore the properties of some alloys of silver, rhodium and platinum in order to make brighter jewels at a lower cost.

One day, while preparing an alloy, you accidentally left the bottles near the melting furnace and the labels became charred and unreadable. OH NO! You now have three unlabeled bottles of metallic powder. Your task is to design and perform experiments to identify the metals in these bottles. From a chemical handbook available in your lab, you find that the densities of silver, rhodium and platinum are 10.5, 12.4 and 21.45 grams per cubic centimetre, respectively.

Now perform your experiments using the Virtual Lab.

Note: The solution information panel for this activity only displays approximate values for the volume of a substance. Please design your experiment based upon how you would solve this problem in a physical lab.

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In this activity, students use the virtual lab to identify 3 unknown metals by measuring their density and comparing their measurements to the densities of known metals. In this randomized version, each student is given a different set of unknown metals and students can check their answer using the form at the bottom of the page.

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This resource houses a number of strategies and techniques to scaffold and support student thinking, with the aim of synthesising ideas. Heaps of options available, and categorised according to the type of thinking you want to elicit.

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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Brooke (2006) discusses strategies for engaging students to use higher order thinking skills, including soratic questioning. Engaging students in higher order thinking online requires careful planning and implementation. This video articulates how using socratic questioning can support higher order thinking. Key takeaways include: using open ended questions, grounding learning into personalised experiences, identifying and solving problems, and recontextualising knowledge.

Brooke, S. L. (2006). Using the Case Method to Teach Online Classes: Promoting Socratic Dialogue and Critical Thinking Skills. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 18(2), 142-149.

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One Easy Way to Engage Students in Higher Order Thinking Online!

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This is a great resource that can be used to assist in teaching students about the safe, legal and ethical use of ICTs within the classroom.  The website (ACARA) outlines that in ensuring safe, legal, and ethical use of technology, students:
- Understand the role of ICT in society and its impact on individuals.
- Appreciate the various people that use ICT and understand what it means to use ICT in an ethical, legal and safe manner.
- Use safe practices when utilising ICT, protect their personal information and understanding how to manage various types of communication.
- Reflect on any ICT issues when reviewing the impact of ICTs.

As outlined by Education Victoria, students must also understand:

Copyright and appropriate referencing

Utilizing settings on digital media to protect privacy

Cybersecurity (Department of Education and Training Victoria, 2020)

Reference:

Department of Education and Training Victoria. (2020, June 15). Cybersafety and Responsible Use of Digital Technologies. Retrieved from https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/cybersafety/policy

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This element involves students developing an understanding of how social and ethical protocols and practices are applied when using ICT.

Students apply appropriate practices to recognise the intellectual property for digital information of themselves and others. They use appropriate practices for the physical and logical storage and security of digital information, and apply appropriate protocols when using ICT to safely create, communicate or share information. Students gain an understanding of the benefits and consequences of the use of ICT by individuals, groups and communities and the impact of the use of ICT on the fabric of society. In developing and acting with ICT capability, students:

recognise intellectual property

apply digital information security practices

apply personal security protocols

identify the impacts of ICT in society.

Level 5

Typically by the end of Year 8, students:

Recognise intellectual property

Apply digital information security practices

Apply personal security protocols

Identify the impacts of ICT in society

Level 6

Typically by the end of Year 10, students:

Recognise intellectual property

Apply digital information security practices

Apply personal security protocols

Identify the impacts of ICT in society

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Digital mind-mapping works as a substitute to hand-written brainstorming. Going digital allows students to store many ideas in one place, continually alter the format and easily share online to peers and teachers

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Benefits of Bubbl.us mind maps over text:

Superior clarity of structured information

Whether it's a family tree, a decision flow map, or an algorithm, mind maps have a huge advantage in presenting complexity clearly and concisely.

Better retention of complex ideas.

Visualizing complex ideas in shapes, lines, and pictures leads to much better recollection later than simple text.

Creative collaboration with others.

Visual brainstorming with a team can dramatically improve the quality of the final product because of diversity of perspectives and experiences.

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Bubbl.us - Create Mind Maps | Collaborate and Present Ideas

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Mind map and brainstorm online with Bubbl.us! Create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.

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Collaboration requires carefully designed and challenging tasks - ICT would be an effective way to enhance cooperation in the classroom. This video features Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey (2021). They break down the phases of the GRR, in particular, the importance of the collaboration phases and how to effectively scaffold the process of learning. - Scooped from Malissa Tapp

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Collaboration requires carefully designed and challenging tasks - ICT would be an effective way to enhance cooperation in the classroom. This video features Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey (2021). They break down the phases of the GRR, in particular, the importance of the collaboration phases and how to effectively scaffold the process of learning. - Scooped from Malissa Tapp

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I use GRR a lot in my school as it is the preferred teaching pedagogy and also I feel it is a great scaffolded method to build students confidence in new content.