Ideas and documents to help with administrating a department
Student handbook
| chemf_3_student_handbook_for_chemistry_2014_to_15_for_publishing.docx |
Departmental handbook
| chemf_2_chemistry_department_handbook_2014_to_2015_for_publishing.docx |
Formative Assessment Marking Schemes
| ig_general_assessment_guidebook_pb.docx |
Marking rubric for iGCSE science based on IB marking criteria (needs to be updated for new IA though) click here
How to do it
This is an A4 periodic table of elements. If I were to do it again you will need three weeks really to do it properly. In the first week assign one element to each student for homework/classwork. In the second week collect in the elements. If there are any missing, assign those missing ones to two or more separate students in a different class for the week after. In this way all of the gaps can be filled in. Overall would involve maybe 200 students, applicable though to any age group.
Laminate the pages, stick them together with metal rings (which you might be able to get from Art when they're not looking, we had to get them from a shop though; they were curtain loops or something). The logo is not load bearing, there are strings attached to the periods beneath, something worth trying would be a light wooden frame, because keeping it flat was a marvelously trying experience. You will need two people at least to hang it. Actually, if the other person is new and actually want to be a part of it, a really good team building exercise, but it does require a whole lot of time.
As a leaving present
If you wanted to make it more detailed, or for older students, scan, or link all of them together into a single file and make a book out of it, possibly a neat leaving present for a large year group that's leaving if they're given enough time and told to write their farewells in on their element. Would definitely be cool to hang up for the next year group.
For Primary School students
Also totally adaptable for primary school, could be a whole school project, older students investigating and writing about more charismatic elements like gold and carbon, whilst the younger ones simply draw the letters and add pictures, possibly relating to the element (would require a quick google search and print out possible inspirational images. Youngest students could simply colour in (or over) hollow letters written out using word.
This is an A4 periodic table of elements. If I were to do it again you will need three weeks really to do it properly. In the first week assign one element to each student for homework/classwork. In the second week collect in the elements. If there are any missing, assign those missing ones to two or more separate students in a different class for the week after. In this way all of the gaps can be filled in. Overall would involve maybe 200 students, applicable though to any age group.
Laminate the pages, stick them together with metal rings (which you might be able to get from Art when they're not looking, we had to get them from a shop though; they were curtain loops or something). The logo is not load bearing, there are strings attached to the periods beneath, something worth trying would be a light wooden frame, because keeping it flat was a marvelously trying experience. You will need two people at least to hang it. Actually, if the other person is new and actually want to be a part of it, a really good team building exercise, but it does require a whole lot of time.
As a leaving present
If you wanted to make it more detailed, or for older students, scan, or link all of them together into a single file and make a book out of it, possibly a neat leaving present for a large year group that's leaving if they're given enough time and told to write their farewells in on their element. Would definitely be cool to hang up for the next year group.
For Primary School students
Also totally adaptable for primary school, could be a whole school project, older students investigating and writing about more charismatic elements like gold and carbon, whilst the younger ones simply draw the letters and add pictures, possibly relating to the element (would require a quick google search and print out possible inspirational images. Youngest students could simply colour in (or over) hollow letters written out using word.
A neat idea for a leaving present
This is a 5ml beaker laser etched with the student's name, the department logo, and my email address. They were very well received. Each probably cost around $5 to laser etch, so very affordable for small groups.
