Achieving+the+Objectives

Scaffolded activities will be used to address the Indiana State Standards and Unit Objectives. Some examples for scaffolded activities are indicated below.

ACTIVITY TO USE WITH FILMS


 * BiofuelsPlants and EnzymeProduction

This video helps students understand in aconcise way how scientist are exploring ways to develop biomass that can be turned into fuel for industry. || Physics and Making Bio-Diesel

This is a video detailing the making of Bio-diesel from Coconut || Bio-fuel Generation The history of Biofuels in the world from peanuts, grass,corn and other plant material. These plant materials areused to create diesel to ethanol. The video gives some thoughtprovoke ideas about the why and why not use of biofuel. || This webpage was developed by a chemistry teacher in Canada for distance learning. It has a lot of great visuals to help students understand the kinetic molecular theory as well as many other topics in thermochemistry. (click here to view the web page)
 * media type="custom" key="19382228" width="82" height="82" align="left" || media type="youtube" key="da2zbQAzqn0" height="288" width="384" align="center" || media type="custom" key="19381524" width="72" height="72" ||
 * Activity - Calorimetry and Heat Transfer (click here to view the activity sheet)
 * Guided Web Discovery
 * Simulation of a (Heat) Engine (click here to the simulation)
 * Work, Energy, Power - POP Quiz

= Communicating the Expectations =


 * Students will receive references regarding the standards and the quality of the work expected from them through the Assignment List and [[file:UG_Chemistry of Biofuels.docx|Unit Guide]].
 * Students will also receive a list of topics they are responsible for understanding by the end of the unit (The linked document here, is just an example of such a unit guide)

= 21st Century Skills =
 * presentation skills- students will present at the end of the unit what they’ve discovered
 * writing skills- students will engage in daily reflections and effectively communicate their findings
 * research skills-students will be researching their specific topics using varying resources

= Ensuring Student Learning =
 * Learning from each other is encouraged via social networking facilities such as Facebook (groups or pages) twitter and tumblr
 * Students are expected to document their work both formally and informally. For these purposes Google docs and/or hard-copy research note books can be used. Students will also be required to record their responses to prompts (related to meta-cognition as well as procedures) in the same place.
 * Periodic pop quizzes will be administered during the program to monitor the progress through the content knowledge. Such pop quizzes may contain traditional physics, chemistry problems within the standardized test formats.

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