Gas+Laws+Unit+(High+School+Chemistry)

This is the final project for our group (Gabby, Tara and Hossein). You can find our unit calendar, unit plan and all of our lesson plans on the following website: We look forward to your feedback in the following areas:

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1) How can we make our student centered lessons more effective? 2) Are our proposed assessments (Extended Lab Reports, Quizzes, and a Regents styled Unit Exam) appropraite? 2) How can we incorporate more community involvement in our unit? 3) What controversial social issues can you tie to this unit (for higher levels of thinking)?



1. Anytime you have student centered lessons the fear is that they might not come to the conclusion you need them to. I think just alwasy being sure there is time at the end of class to review what was found and talk about any misconceptions is important. 2. Are all of your students expected to take the regents? If not, I may suggest giving a different unti exam than a regens style one. Or possibly mix it up and include some other ways of demonstrating knowledge. 2?) See if any students have family that studied chemistry and would like to come in to help for a day. 3) Diesel engines! I am not sure where you all teach but pollution is a huge them from diesel especially if you are in the SBronx area and have all of those trucks... -Kate Anderson

1. Be sure to circulate and correct misconceptions as they arise. Consider informal mid-lesson assessments, and I think the use of well-designed exit slips would enhance your lessons and give you a data point around which to re-teach if necessary. 2. I really like the regents styled exam especially for regents-bound students. I think it's a good way to assess their knowledge of core concepts in chem. other 2 and 3. This could actually be a cool unit to visit a local university's physics/chem departments. I also think Kate raises a good point that since you're exploring diesel engines, there may be room to discuss the pollution related to them (especially since diesel engines are being touted as an alternative to traditional gasoline engines by some car manufacturers). -Rohit