Title: Gas Laws in Chemistry
1Gas Laws in Chemistry
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Mr. Philip Boese
Brawley Union High School, Brawley, California
FINAL PRESENTATION
CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
2My CTAP 295 Web Based Lesson
- Mr. Philip Boese
- Chemistry Teacher
- Brawley High School
- pboese_at_brawleyhigh.org
- http//ctap295.ctaponline.org/pboese/
- http//www.brawleyhigh.org/chem
3My Expectations of CTAP 295
- Learn to make web pages for my classes
- Learn more about internet resources for teaching
- Fulfill my 150 hour continuing education
requirement to renew my teaching credential - Find out how other teachers are using internet
technology in their teaching
4What I Actually Learned in CTAP295
- How to use MS FrontPage to create and edit web
pages - How to use MS PowerPoint in the classroom
- How to make good lesson-planning decisions about
using technology in my curriculum - How to use MS Excel to make spreadsheets and
charts
5Successes in Lesson Implementation
- High Student Interest in Using Computers and
Internet. - Enthusiasm for Making Power Point Presentations
- Some students explored extensions of the
assignment not otherwise possible.
6 Lesson Implementation Shortcomings
- Student effort used understanding the computer
instead of the lesson. - Difficult to arrange computer lab time and we
could have used more lab time. - Less student understanding of gas property
relationships was developed than the teacher had
hoped for.
7Student Performance DataShow me the numbers!
8Charts of Student Performance
9Charts of Student Performance
10Analysis of Student Performance Data
- Almost all students made gains from pre-test to
post-test - There is almost a suggestion of a correlation
between high pre-test scores and high average for
all unit activities - Although one gender did better on the pre-test,
by the end both genders scored equally high
11Web Quest Assignment
12My Gas Laws Web Quest
Although true Web Quests are elaborate and very
time consuming to write, I made a simple and
effective one by selecting questions I wanted
students to answer and understand, finding links
to web pages with the information I wanted
students to process and having students follow
the links to find the answers.
13Internet Integration
Screen Shot of Web page used on Web Quest
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16http//www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/idealGas/idealGas.
html
17Summary of Revisions
- Re-write Pre-test / Post-test
- Greater emphasis on student drawings of molecular
dynamic simulations - More drill and practice on solving gas law
problems algebraically based on conceptual
understanding
18What Ive Learned . . .sample of the assignments
web page I created
19Concluding Statement
- My students were able to see how internet
resources can be used in regular subject matter
instruction as this lesson was implemented. - This teacher learned how to integrate internet
resources into the lessons, how to make web
pages, how to use powerpoint, and many other
skills and ideas about using technology in
teaching.
20screen shot buhs web page
21- I will now be working as a Digital Mentor
training other Brawley High School teachers in
the skills being developed through our Digital
High School grant. - I am currently working with another CTAP295
teacher training our teachers to use FrontPage to
make web pages for the BUHS web site.
22As my BUHS chemistry students take the Golden
State exam, they have the advantage of having
explored some chemistry topics on the internet
and seen others via power point slide shows.
23Summary and Observations
- The Information Technology Revolution is a
historically significant advancement in our
civilization, similar in importance to the
industrial revolution and the development of
agriculture. - Educational institutions lag behind business and
industry in implementing the fruits of this
Info-Tech Revolution, but through programs like
CTAP 295, progress is being made.