Some of my Favorite Things for VSEPR
Melissa Hemling | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 17:25
Melissa Hemling shares her favorite manipulatives along with cheap at-home alternatives to help students visualize VSEPR.
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Examining VSEPR though the Cross Cutting Concept of Patterns
Stephanie O'Brien | Sat, 12/15/2018 - 16:23
In an effort to align an old VSEPR lesson to NGSS, I told my students that we were going to look at the data available from the real molecules on the pHET simulation we were using and specifically look for patterns. Finding patterns is a cross-cutting concept; one of the three dimensions of NGSS.
Geometric Approach to Lewis Structures
Lauren Stewart | Tue, 04/12/2016 - 18:25
If you look at any chemistry textbook, you will see Lewis structures introduced long before electronic and molecular geometries. This makes sense since you need Lewis structures to determine molecular geometry. Unfortunately, research has shown that students often do not recognize that the purpose of drawing Lewis structures is not to create the structure itself but to use it as tool to understand the properties of the molecule (Cooper, Grove, Underwood & Klymkowsky, 2010).