Review for:Odyssey Instructor's Edition

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posted: on January 18, 2007 at 12:02PM

My rating of this resource: *****

My experience using this resource:

Chemistry

Topic I was teaching:

States of Matter
Intermolecular Forces
*Gas Laws
*Kinetic Molecular Theory

My learning goal for which this resource was used:

To give students a visual picture of what is occuring at a molecular level. It also allows students to develop the gas laws from the quantitative information that it gives you.

Course Level:

Honors or Advanced, Intro or Regular

How I/my students used the resource:

Although you can buy a classroom set of this resource and work through different labs, I use it as a demonstration tool.

Value Added:

Provides visualization or animation, Increases modeling skills, Increases data collection & analysis skills, Provides additional content, Increases student engagement and motivation

Strengths:

This is the most powerful molecular modeling tool that I have encountered.
-You can manipulate every condition and see how it changes the system.
-You can quantitatively measure such things(for system and individual atoms/molecules) speed, avg speed, temperature, pressure, volume, etc.
-Can rotate view 360 degrees to see the container.
-Can place a trail on molecules to view their random path.
-Students are constantly blown away by it and come up with tons of different ways to manipulate the system. And then try to predict the outcome.

Weaknesses:

Non that I have come up with.

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