{"id":3271,"date":"2017-07-29T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T04:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2017-07-29T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T04:22:17","slug":"t-gem-and-atomic-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/07\/29\/t-gem-and-atomic-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"T-GEM and Atomic Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From previous experience in teaching the chemistry portion of Science 9, it is apparent that Isotopes remain a difficult concept for many students to grasp. It is very common to see the same mistakes emerge on assignments and tests and remains a persistent issue for many students.<\/p>\n<p>Using the concepts of TGEM (Khan, 2007), I have found generated an activity which works to teach atomic structure and isotopes using the Bill Nye Video and PhET simulation below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zeAI6GqL8qo\">Bill Nye: Atoms and Molecules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/html\/build-an-atom\/latest\/build-an-atom_en.html\">PhET Simulation: Build-an-Atom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3275\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/files\/2017\/07\/Capture-300x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/files\/2017\/07\/Capture-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/files\/2017\/07\/Capture-620x362.png 620w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/files\/2017\/07\/Capture.png 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Khan, S. (2007). Model-based inquiries in chemistry. Science Education, 91(6), 877-905.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From previous experience in teaching the chemistry portion of Science 9, it is apparent that Isotopes remain a difficult concept for many students to grasp. It is very common to see the same mistakes emerge on assignments and tests and remains a persistent issue for many students. Using the concepts of TGEM (Khan, 2007), I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669392,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-t-gem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}