Lab Partners _______________________________ _______________________________
Greedy Gumballs just released a new gum ball saying that it is the sweetest ever. They claim that each gum ball is at least 80% sugar, making it the sweetest gum ever created. Because this, they are charging double the normal price. Skeptical Sally did not believe the claims of the Greedy Gumball corporation. She was sure that there was not that much sugar in the gum and wanted to prove it. She has enlisted your help to prove that the Greedy Gum ball corporation is just trying to take your money. Below state the purpose of your investigation: Now turn your stated purpose into a hypothesis. This will be your claim, what you are trying to support with the data you collect. Procedure: Using the purpose of the investigation as your guide, you and your lab partner will need to write a set of steps that someone can follow to achieve the purpose of the lab. Do this on a separate sheet of paper that you can give to another group. Once you are done with the procedures, you will need to exchange with another lab group and they will evaluate your procedure. When writing your procedure keep these questions in mind.
Bring your procedures to me to check before I give you a piece of gum. Once you have your gum, you may begin with your procedure Chew on this: During the lab, answer the following questions.
Data; This is a place for you to record information that you collected during your procedure. Calculations: Do any calculations below. Conclusion
Here is the portion where you will wrap it all up, and use your data as a piece of evidence to either support or refute (prove wrong, or go against) your claim. Do this on a separate sheet of paper, or on a google doc that you can attach to the assignment.Each lab partner will need to do their own conclusion.
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Well the year is about to conclude, and I have to say that it was a good year professionally. I have deepened my understanding of my content in such a way that topics that I could not grasp last year make sense enough to me that I can teach them in a proficient way. This was a huge step in my teaching of AP Chemistry. I can teach what the text book says and walk through the math, but without a deep understanding, it is very difficult to translate that into simpler concepts that students can readily understand. I hope that this will translate to success on the AP exam. It also helps with my confidence in front of the students. It is hard to be the expert if you are constantly second guessing yourself in your teaching. My comfort level going up, allowed me to be loser in the classroom and joke more, making the students a bit more relaxed. What I need to do for next year it to get more writing about labs and result in. Perhaps written summaries of the concepts will help students make sense of these topics and allow me to see what they are actually thinking about. They could then use them as notes to study from to prepare for the AP exam.
In general chemistry, I started doing more writing, but then moved away from it as I do not like reading so many paper. I get too bogged down in providing feedback for all the little things that the students might have messed up on. This causes me to spend hours grading and commenting on a simple paragraph response. This is prohibitive in assigning writings. Perhaps I need to change what I am asking them to write about and connect this more to labs that we do in class. It would be good to apply CER (Claim Evidence and Reasoning) to data that the students gather about a particular concept. I guess my homework this summer is to more deliberately sequence my labs and to link them to some phenomena that can drive a lesson. This perhaps could make learning more meaningful |