Review for:PBS Nova

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posted: on November 7, 2006 at 2:20PM

My rating of this resource: ***

My experience using this resource:

Chemistry

Topic I was teaching:

Atoms

My learning goal for which this resource was used:

Have students understand how the elements are the building blocks of matter.

Course Level:

Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:

I showed parts of it in class. The students then had the opportunity to ask questions.

Value Added:

Provides visualization or animation

Strengths:

The visuals are excellent for a topic which is normally described, but difficult to SEE.

Weaknesses:

It was great! The students loved it, and still now we sometimes refer to some of the visuals. I didn't show the entire 55 minutes. I have used fragments of about 15 minutes at a time. Sometimes I've used even small fragments of 2 minutes to help students remember some of the things we discussed earlier in the year.

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