https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey A handful of good apps and e-content for Chemistry and Physics. en-us 2018-02-28 19:17:57 UTC 2018-03-03 16:20:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/268284761/034ee449162593165c24291006c43b0a/noun_205015_cc.png micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236627901 Looking for an app related to chemistry, easily you can find a miriad of them, in English or in Spanish, just by looking up this key word at Google Play. Most of them consist on a handful of exercises and theoretical content. Suprisingly, it was harder, however, to find an app related to Physics teaching. From the apps I found,I have chosen this 4, I hope you like them. ]]> 2018-02-28 19:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236627901 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236634745 By QuizOver.com

In opposite to other Chemistry related apps, based in more static information indexed as flash cards. This app, posed as a complete text book for up to Bachillerato, includes multimedia resources, excersices and intereactive content. ]]> 2018-02-28 19:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236634745 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236641834 By Electrolytic Earth

This app has a very atractive appearence. It has easy-to-carry-out test about different aspects of Chemistry. It has interactive exercies about reaction mechanisms. It also has resources such as table, diagrams, etc.]]> 2018-02-28 19:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236641834 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236654049 Vieyra Software

It was hard to find an example of Physic based app similar to the Chemistry ones mentioned before. This one is not a teaching app per se but I thought it could be interesting to use it as a resource. It consists on a set of tools that take profit of the ins and outs of the mobile itself. It has compass, giroscope, proximity sensor, sonometer, frequency transmitter, etc.  ]]> 2018-02-28 20:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236654049 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236675012 Class Dojo and Google

This kind of apps can be used to keep records about the behaviour of the students, their completed taks, etc. It also enables the teacher to give rewards to deserving students. These apps can also be used as a way of contact between teachers, students and parents.

Google Classroom:
https://goo.gl/ypCSDK

Class Dojo:
https://goo.gl/SEpkTy]]> 2018-02-28 20:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236675012 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236704417 Pear Deck is a web application that allows the teacher to create a dynamic set of extra content and exercises to be displayed live to the students devices while the teacher is explaining the lesson inmersed in a Pear Deck session.

This is a video explaining how does it work. https://goo.gl/JsKZ7H

]]> 2018-02-28 22:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236704417 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236705665 ACE Ed-Venture Studio Sdn. Bhd. 

This is and adventure game based on chemistry lessons. It is based on minigames that reinforce concepts. It is not used as a Chemistry lesson, but it could help the teacher giving the students a motivation to do exercises about the subject taught. Its drawback is that it has no free version.]]> 2018-02-28 22:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236705665 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236705890 This is a Spanish web app where teachers and students can create their own educative games. The students can play their own games, the ones designed by the teachers, or the ones created by other peers.

https://www.cerebriti.com/]]> 2018-02-28 22:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/236705890 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237673835  
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating a set of online tools for different subjects to educate delocatedly. It offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard. They claim they have cutting edge learning methods that let them affirm that people who study with them achieve greater-than-expected learning outcomes.
They have a section devoted to Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. Chemistry subject starts with a interesting video of introduction to the concept of Chemistry itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=Rd4a1X3B61w
I would totally recomend this resource to teachers. ]]> 2018-03-03 11:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237673835 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237675018
ACS offers in its webpage plenty of resources for Chemical teachers of any level. Among these resources they include lesson plans for High-School teaching. based on ACS National (USA) Historic Chemical landmark subjects. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lesson-plans.html
For primary school they have webpage enterely devoted to resources for this level. http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/ . A section containing lesson plans for different levels can be found there http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/lessonplans/
A search enginge let us choose the level we are teaching and the systems shows you the lessons that are planned for that grade.

EXTRA INFO: These lessons are designed to fulfil The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This is a United States education plan to improve the way STEM is teached at schools. They focus on three main areas or dimensions that students need to understand and be able to do. They are Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI), Science and Engineering Practices (SEP), and Crosscutting Concepts (CC).

]]> 2018-03-03 11:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237675018 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237676952 US National Science Foundations offers a repository of useful links to other Physics Lesson Plans and other resources.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/physics.jsp]]> 2018-03-03 11:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237676952 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237677118
European Space Agency has in its webpage a respository of downloadable material based lesson plans around space related concepts. They are linked to Physics ideas but also Biology, History and Earth Sciences, and also to ESA former missions. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Lessons_online/Lessons_online

US National Air and Space Agency also offers resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword. These lesson plans and teaching materials support your STEM curriculum, including Physics.
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html  
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Springer Editors published this e-book that focuses not on designing specific lessons regarding Chemistry content, but it is focused on developing and updating prospective and practicing chemistry teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge.  
http://www.springer.com/la/book/9789462091405]]> 2018-03-03 12:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237679194 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237680338
This is an open access electronic magazine published by American Chemical Association. They publish chemistry related articles that can be used to illustrate how concepts taught in the classroom are related to real life. These articles can also be used to introduce a everyday life concept and then work backward to incorporate related chemistry.

Some of the articles also have a Teachers' Guide that suggests how to talk about the subject.

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters.html]]> 2018-03-03 12:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237680338 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237682059
This magazine, published by IOPPublishing, deals with teaching of physics in schools and colleges. The articles reflect the needs and interests of secondary school teachers, teacher trainers and those involved with courses up to first years of college. Is not a resource to be used by students, but by teachers to keep track to the new trends in teaching this subject. Most of the articles include descritpions of projects that could be done in the classroom, experiences with certain tools, etc.

http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0031-9120]]> 2018-03-03 12:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237682059 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237684554
From the apps I described before, my favourite one is Google Classroom. It has a similar environment to Moodel or other  learning management systems.   With a free of charge license for the School or Centre you are working at, this platform can be used as a social network between students and teachers where formal and informa communication can take places. It can also host resources for the students and tasks. As it can be synchronised with the rest of Google tools, it allows to manage calendar, e-mail and documents. Besides, the last ones can be shared or developed collaboratively. This can be done from any device since it is a multiplatform app. 

I my Chemistry class I would use it mainly to post weekly tasks to reinforce certain concepts previously seen in class. Some of these tasks will imply the collaboration between several students, like the reports to deliver after a lab practice, or a web-quest that has to be solved through different singular steps. Also extra information like news, videos etc. could be posted in the shared space. 

]]> 2018-03-03 13:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237684554 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237699039 Among the repositories of web lessons mentioned before, it is hard for me to choose just one because I really like the underlying ideas of all of them of using a certain guiding thread to introduce chemistry concepts.

The one I would like to use in my class is "The Isolation of the Phytochrome". It is interesting to combine in the same lesson items from botanics, physics and chemistry. The lesson could be divided into 3 or 4 sessions, and could be accompanied by a lab practice of extracting pigments from vegetable material. It could be also part of a more extended physic lessons regarding light. It could be an insight of the incidence of light away from papers and formulae. ]]> 2018-03-03 15:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237699039 micoreche https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237702503 American Chemical Association can take the credit for being one of my favourite content provider. Their chemistry magazine ChemMatters can be easily used as a resource to bring to daily life some contents or topics related to the subject. 

As I mentioned, they include a Teacher's Guide for certain articles. This guide helps you to identify which are the chemical concepts that can be related to the article. It also gives you an idea of the competences that can be developed through it.

In my class I would use these articles to start a lesson. Previously to the reading I would create a small debate using the Anticipation Guide they propose. After the reading, a questionnaire about the text will test their comprehension. Once this is finished, the more abstract part of the lesson can start, connecting it with what they have read. ]]> 2018-03-03 16:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/micoreche/wmfwrf214aey/wish/237702503