JWreckChem 🐀

Glanced over at the clock, saw it was 8:04 a.m., and felt a jolt of panic because school is starting in 6 minutes! It's Saturday. I need to go back to bed.

@sorensensci I love your orange goggles!

Friday the 13th seemed like a good time to wear my new shirt! #nerdytshirtfriday #iteachchem

@MarcusLuther6 *sigh* My school is doing the annual candy donation thing where kids who donate a bag of candy are given a slip of paper for them to turn in to any teacher for extra credit. Buying extra credit feels so wrong to me.

@LawSelfDefense @piper4missouri I'm a teacher. I have a bachelors in chemistry, and I know a teacher who has a PhD in physics. Literally what are you on about? Physics teachers major in physics.

@EDUwithEmily Love TPT, but the district blocked it this year so I haven't bought anything off it lately.

Do you download resources from teachers pay teachers?

@teachcrap Yeah, that requires a complete overhaul! No way could you fit the same amount of material in. Even with longer class periods, there's only so much new material you can cover in one day before the kids can't learn any more new things. Good for projects and long labs, I guess?

@JWreckChem They tried to tell use the trimester would be “better for the students” but it’s just not. They want us to cram in what we did in a semester with 6 less weeks. It’s not for the students and I’m at a loss at figuring out who is WAS for…

My lowest performing class is my Chem class. They have been struggling on this trimester system. I decided to slow the pace and just teach what I can. If I don’t cover all of it, I don’t. Well today they took a quiz… Class average was a 8.2 out of 10. Trimester 👎

@JayWamsted My high schoolers went dead silent when it was time for it to go off, then got bitterly disappointed when they realized their entire class had remembered to put their phones in their lockers so not a single phone went off.

They had to push this emergency alert out to every teenager in the country in the absolute middle of a school day?

@teachcrap Yeah, my first period has been doing significantly better than my 5th and 6th this year. Maybe because it's the first class of the day they're still fresh and ready to learn?

My first period did significantly better on a quiz than periods later in the day and I’m not really sure what happened there.

@OBrienSci :( How can they possibly expect you to run science classes with no budget? That's just setting you up to fail.

@OBrienSci THIS. My school expects me to run six chemistry classes (two of them organic chem!) on $300/year. That's $50 a class. The math doesn't math. I lose so much time to getting funding.

@TweetingPureAu @kes814 This looks like way more fun than the heating curve of water procedure I usually have my kids write! Do you have a write up for this?

Ss are learning to write a “glowing” procedure! “How does temperature affect the rate of reaction within a glow stick?” Shoutout to @kes814 for the brilliant idea and reworking of this lab! #WIProud #IntroToChem #ProcedureWriting #HappyFriday

@teachcrap No, not big here right now. Chess is the current thing.

Is Pokémon go a thing amongst the teenagers where you work? Or is just my school?

@sage_stage Huh, we do this at the school I work at, guess I assumed it was done that way everywhere and never thought about it. It's always a little funny to see a sophomore who's still labeled as a freshman.

Good news Friday- Our district made a change that I thought was insignificant, but ended up making an impact. In the past, if a HS freshman failed everything they were still called a sophomore even if they were in all 9th grade classes again. Now we call them freshman again.

@MarcusLuther6 Exciting! (It's been a great start to the year.)

@JayWamsted My favorite is still the kid that asked, "If I laugh, can I get extra credit?"

If you’re not tossing out amazing & hilarious jokes to a totally dead room are you even a teacher though??

Here's the original post I got it from: twitter.com/HamikChem/stat… And here's the slides I made: docs.google.com/presentation/d… Hope this helps!!!

I stole this station activity from someone on twitter last year and it's going so well! I've been overhearing great conversations as students have been moving around solving the isotope problems. #iteachchem

I wanted to go outside today and had the bright idea to take organic out to draw branched alkanes with chalk on the sidewalk. Twenty-one students running amok with chalk was, umm, not the best. Oops.

@theDRAMAgoat1 Decorating with student work. They really do love seeing their projects posted up on the wall.

How do you promote a sense of belonging in your classroom? #EduChat #Discussion #BuildingRelationships #Community #Classroom #Teaching