JWreckChem 🐀

High school chemistry & organic chemistry teacher.

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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.

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@sorensensci I love your orange goggles!

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@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.

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@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.

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

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@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?

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@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.

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@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?

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

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@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.

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@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?

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

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@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.

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

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

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Here's the original post I got it from: https://t.co/XF54BCx37e

And here's the slides I made: https://t.co/VGrX4sMOVs

Hope this helps!!!

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Today #BurkeChem students practiced recognizing isotopes and writing atomic/isotope notation by interpreting and making models(some stations pictured here). ⚛️ Retro-active props to whoever suggested at @ChemEd2019 to use tinier beads for electrons! #iteachchem @OPS_Burke

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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

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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.

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