Trying to implement a changing curriculum to support the NGSS? Need help interpreting science and engineer practices vs. inquiry? The session will help you learn how to transition to a STEM and NGSS student-centered chemistry classroom because too many teachers think that they will not be able to do their old favorite labs because they don’t meet the NGSS. This session will show how to take favorite labs of “chemistry past” and convert them into more of an engineering design type of lab as well as labs that are more inquiry based that students come up with the factors or relationships to understand the concepts. Labs that will be discussed could be used in a general / regular level chemistry classroom to AP chemistry just by scaffolding the questions. Labs and topics are implementing by inquiry activities that are safe, simple, easy to use, material conserving, time efficient, and effective. Safety and differentiation are built in. Teach core content while fostering problem solving, creativity, and invention. Students design original experiments not possible with traditional methods. Labs discussed in the session will show how students use the results to help build devices as a part of the engineering design aspect of the NGSS.

How to change an old lab to do new tricks!

251st National Meeting (2016)

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