![]() ![]() ![]() Using the Desmos activity builder, I was able to recreate this activity in less than thirty minutes and could easily share it with my students by integrating it with our LMS (Schoology). Converting the Activity to an Online Version ![]() Ultimately, students finish up the activity by answering a small set of questions asking them to identify basic nomenclature rules such as what certain prefixes mean, indicating the number of bonds, and terminology for functional groups. Some make the connections right away and finish within 15 minutes while others struggle to make the same connections between structure and name. Considering they have no prior knowledge of organic nomenclature, it’s interesting to watch their approach toward organizing. For each functional group, there are four cards-11 groups of four. A variety of molecules with different functional groups are within the cards like alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, carboxylic acids, alcohols, esters, etc. Normally, pairs of students are given 44 cards, each containing a structure and name, and asked to identify any patterns in name or structure and organize the cards into groups based on these patterns. Regardless of whether you teach organic, I wanted to share my experience with this resource because of its applicability to a variety of chemistry topics and usefulness for whatever learning environment you find yourself in next year. It was really easy to make and I loved that I didn’t have to once again sacrifice an engaging learning activity due to the restrictions of the learning environment. However, I was thrilled when I came across the activity building feature within Desmos and realized it offered the ability to create a custom card sorting activity. This year, since our organic unit happened to fall within our duration of distance learning, I had planned to cut out the activity for obvious reasons. The activity offers a simple way to help students notice patterns and make connections so that they have some amount of prior knowledge that can be recalled by the time we start naming and drawing different molecules. See our article on grade writeback in Schoology to find out more about setting this up.įinally, click Submit to add the material to your course.For the past few years, we have started our organic unit with a card sorting activity meant to introduce students to the relationship between the structure of a molecule and its name. If Education Perfect is not on the list, this may mean that you've only integrated Education Perfect with a specific Schoology course - you'll need to either add Education Perfect at the school level (as a Schoology Administrator) or add it to each course you want to add Education Perfect content into.Īdd a Title that makes sense for you and your students, and paste the URL of the content you wish to embed.Īutomatic grade writeback is only possible with Education Perfect Assessments added with Enable Grading ticked. In the Add External Tool window select Education Perfect as the Tool Provider. Click Add Materials then Add File/Link/External Tool. Once you have copied the link you wish to embed, navigate to Schoology and select the course you would like to add the resource into. The directions are the same for both Tasks and Assessments! To embed a Task or Assessment, navigate to that Task or Assessment in question, and click into the Details tab. You can now paste this link wherever you require.įinding the link for a Task or Assessment Click + Assign, and a dialogue will be displayed with several options.Ĭlick the Get LTI Provider for _ School button to copy the link to your clipboard. Navigate to the Content tab, and locate the lesson that you wish to embed. Adding the link into a Schoology Courseįinding the link for a lesson from the Content Library.Finding the link for a lesson in the Content Library. ![]()
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