Summer AP Chemistry Workshop
UC Riverside, August 7-11, 2000

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This page contains information for the workshop participants and gives us a place to add updated materials as they are collected. Check this area for updated information.

Outcomes...

• Participants come away from this workshop with a new network of colleagues.
• Participants have a notebook with over 338 pages of teaching ideas, lab, labettes, demonstrations, jokes, songs, and other teaching materials.
• Participants have a list of 25 high priority ideas to incorporate into their teaching.
• Participants have at least a rough-draft of how to lay out the year of content.
• Participants have an appreciation for the AP grading process.
• Participants have an open invitation to email Paul Groves with any questions, ideas, and concerns about their teaching.
• Participants have an awareness of useful products that are available to aid in the teaching of both first-year and AP Chemistry.
• Participants have an appreciation for the fact that all teachers teach with a collection of ideas they have developed, modified, or just plain borrowed from other teachers before them.
• Participants received 3 or 4 AP Chemistry textbooks.

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	Shared Materials Some review materials are saved as Adobe Acrobat® files. This area will grow as participants send me material to share... such as Michael's Le Chatelier's Lab and Jim's Activity Series Activity (with applications to Mn nodules).
		Go to the Adobe Acrobat® website for a free software download if you do not have the plug-in. The initial download time may vary, but after that you'll be able to view and print all of these study materials quickly and easily. Fuzzy printout? Make sure you're using the print command that appears on the Adobe® menu bar just above the form. Do not print from your browser.

Great Link!
One of my students found a great site that lists all of the old AP Chemistry exams and hasn't yet been discovered and shut down by The College Board. Besides the exams, there are brief tutorials and practice quizzes on many of the topics in AP Chemistry.
Visit this site and bookmark it!


List of Ions (Acrobat)

Michael's Le Chatelier's Lab (Acrobat)

Lee Marek's video from the 1950's with "Properties of Gases" and "Properties of Liquids" IS still available through his school. Here is the order form in both Adobe Acrobat format as well as Microsoft Word. The videos are not expensive and should be a great addition to your library.

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Internet Resources...

Chemistry Resources

• Harvey Gendreau's AP Chemistry Page - This is Harvey's page... the guy who typed up all the AP Questions in categories. Keep an eye on this page to find out when he has the licensing details worked out. His package is a MUST HAVE for all AP Chemistry teachers.

• Visual Quantum Mechanics - This is part of the Physics Education section of the Kansas State University Site. Simulation allows you to control electron diffrations and other neat stuff.

• General Chemistry Online - This page is by a college professor at Frostburg State University. It has many useful tutorials. One of my favorites is the Isomer Construction Set.

• ChemEd 2001 - This is the site about the ChemEd 2001 Conference to be held next summer in Toronto!

• Chemmybear.com - This is Paul's site of chemistry projects and useful links.

• Chime & ISIS/Draw - This is the site that offers these two free programs ISIS/Draw is a "chemically intelligent drawing program" that allows you to draw structures... mostly organic. Chime is the browser plug-in that allows you to view images such as the graphite and buckminsterfullerene shown in class.

• Rasmol - Rasmol is closely related to Chime. It is a program that displays the same files as Chime, but independent of a web browser. This site is supposed to be a wealth of information.

• Hotlist of Chemical Families - This is another Filamentality Hotlist of sites used for my Chemical Family Albums Project. This has many cool periodic table sites to visit.

  General Resources

• PuzzleMaker - This is a useful little utility that allows you to make several types of Puzzles. This makes a good extra assignment for students.

• Quia - This site is a FlashCard making site (and MORE). You can design your own quiz or use one made by someone else. The quiz-yourself format can be flashcards or other styles (such as Concentration).

  Products

• Vernier Software and Hardware - This is the site of Dave Vernier who makes CBL interfacing hardware. His software, Graphical Analysis, is also very nice. Dr. Rettig showed us one of his products, the Radioactivity Detector.

• ICE--Institute for Chemical Education - This site features the Visual Analog for X-Ray Crystallography that Dr. Rettig demonstrated. They also have models and information about teaching packets on material science.

• Indigo Instruments - This is the site where Dr. Rettig bought the nice (and inexpensive) models of graphite, diamond, and buckminsterfullerene. I especially liked how durable they felt... they could be passed around the classroom without coming back in pieces.

• Synaps - This is the source for the Chemical Animations CD-ROM demonstrated in class by John Gelder. These are animations used as part of a distance learning AP Chemistry course. Helen Brooks, owner, also sells the Becker Demos CD-ROM (Macintosh only).

The Participants...

Gas Law Demonstrations: Olga and Eddie experience the force of air pressure. Olga was surprised by the push of the air. We needed to get a bigger bag for Eddie. Click on image for larger versions.

The Instructor: Paul Groves is a chemistry teacher at South Pasadena High School, 1401 Fremont Avenue, South Pasadena, CA 91030. He has served as a reader for the AP Chemistry exam. Email: pgroves@aol.com