How to See what the Metal is doing...

WHAT AM I DOING TO HELP KIDS ACHIEVE?

HOW DO I KNOW WHEN THEY ARE THERE?

WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE?

     So here is the plan....for the most part, the ice lab went well.  Students did a good job of finding the heat of fusion of ice.  So here is the next challenge.  I told them that provided with certain materials, they must find the specific heat of a metal.  Tomorrow, we are going to go over their possible ideas and see if they can get data to find the specific heat of a metal.

In Academic we are doing types of reactions, classifications and balancing. They are doing particulate models and the models are going better than the classification. That is the first time I have had this problem and it is a nice problem to have. I have been using the curriculum from the American Modeling Teachers Association and it is working well. It will be really interesting when I use Stephanie Kimberlin's TIMU activity for stoichiometry to see how it goes. I may also follow up with AMTA material. I'll keep you posted. I have decided the most important thing now is to keep plowing ahead no matter how crazy it gets during 4th q....