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Monday, September 19, 2011
Online Science Teaching Source: Periodic Elements
I found a great source for showing all kinds of information about the periodic table and the elements. The site is called "The Periodic Table of Videos", and the url is: http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm. Basically, the site is a compilation of videos, and each video pertains to a certain element. Once you get to the main page, just click on any element you want to know more about and you will be shown a video on it. Most of the more common elements that would be introduced in a school curiculum (such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, etc.) all have parts of the clips dedicated to live experiments as well as interviews that provide factual information about the given element. As an added bonus, the main narrator has some really cool and wacked out hair! (Einstein, eat your heart out!). The only down side I see so far, is that some of the more uncommon elements (such as Uut, Uuq, and Uup) do not have video documentation containing live experiments (probably because these elements only last for a split second inside a lab), so they can get a little dry. However, they still do have narrations that give factual information about them. The publisher of this website is the University of Nottingham.
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I mainly wanted to reference this source for the periodic table, but there are secondary resources in their "extra videos" tab. This contains videos on a vast amount of things from frog poison to the lunar landing, and even a video on exploding cake (it's their chemists' way of dividing their B-day cake without using knives).
I originally found this site off of a site called "Mashable Social Media", which has an article entitled "10 Free Online Resources For Science Teachers". The Url is: http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/science-teacher-resources/. So, if your having trouble finding a science teaching source there are nine more on the site.
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Neil,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing this site. I know I need to educate myself a little more on the periodic table and all the elements. So not only do I think this resource will be helpful for students, but also for me. This website is a much more interesting and engaging way to learn about the elements than learning about them through a text book. I only watched a couple of videos, and I can not wait to watch a few more!!
Thanks for sharing Neil! This is a great resource for both students and teachers! I really like how the videos capture the enthusiasm of scientists who work with the elements as well show the locations of where some elements have actually been made. This resource will definitely be an interesting way to teach about the Periodic Table of Elements!
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ReplyDeleteAs Mia said this could also be a great site for students to use as well. I remember when I was learning about the periodic table...I hated it (mostly because I just had to memorize it)...these videos will make it more exciting, and really more informative, for students who are hesitant about chemsitry. Great!
I think this is a great resource for us to use as teachers because there is a ton of factual information about the periodic table, which I struggle with and would need to brush up on before teaching it to my students. This site would be a good way to continue our education as teachers because after watching a few of the videos, I learned a whole bunch that I had forgotten. The videos are a good way for visual learners to grapple with the information, and the videos will probably do a better job teaching the more complicated aspects of the periodic table than I would by reading out of a textbook. Thanks for showing that site to us!
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