Catherine Smith

@Snotlady5 On occasions I have collected student responses from the class and created a concept cartoon ‘live.’ Can work well but you need to select the question carefully and ensure you have potential misconceptions in mind so you can add potential ideas of needed.

#Edutwitter Any advice on using concept conversations/cartoons in the classroom- how much does it matter that you include images of people as part of the cartoon? Does it aid in memory making? I’ve just been using names but should I be using faces- does this aid recall?

Are your Y13s struggling to decipher exam questions on acids and bases? Download the revision tree from this resource to help them with any last minute revision panic. #chemed

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@MissBAWood @RSCEastMidlands Hiya. I’ll check and if you’ve not registered add you in ;-) Expect an email with quiz links next weekend.

Last few days for teachers in the East Midlands to register for the Top of the Bench competition. Register here forms.gle/nxXbkqcYesDBCo… edu.rsc.org/enrichment/top…

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@compoundchem Congratulations Andy. Well deserved is an understatement 🙌

@sandrine9210 With careful use and reuse these should now last for years. As a subject we do need to find a sustainable replacement but nothing obvious at the moment.

@Cjs42Smith Lucky you! We recycle ours but they tend to end up with a whole at the bottom. None of our suppliers had them this year- not even Amazon.

A bit too excited to find these for sale at a car boot sale today! #chemistryteachergold

Taken the plunge and trying out Bluesky. Find me as @CatSmi.

What a cracking little book!

@MissJakubecz @Eton_CIRL I’d love to find out more.

This morning I’ll be running the Great Manchester 10K to raise money for Dementia UK. Wish me luck 🤞 …ellgreatmanchesterrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/catherine-s…

I seem to have found some teacher wellbeing in running. Several laps around the block over the last few months and I’m nearly ready. Thank goodness MCR is very flat ;-) …ellgreatmanchesterrun2024.enthuse.com/pf/catherine-s…

@KazG31 Excellent example as I assume the students need to decide which method to use before they can then add in the detail. I found just putting them together made me really think about the decisions I make along the way so I can make them more explicit in my teaching.

@Cjs42Smith It’s got me thinking about trying to do something similar for methods to produce pure, dry salts. We do IGCSE and we have 3 different scenarios that the Triples need to know. I normally end up with three columns (like your summary table ) but a decision tree may be helpful.

An excellent article from @doc_kristy on supporting students with structure and bonding. It introduced me to the idea of decision trees to scaffold thinking…. edu.rsc.org/ideas/5-ways-t…

@MissBAWood Email sent. I hope your students find them useful.

I was also marking some Y13 homework on Acids, Bases and Buffers and realised a similar tree might we useful.

I’ve tried putting one together for bonding along with a summary table to emphasise the exact wording needed for exam marks.