The Chemistry Lotus Leaf Notebook

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The booklet contains the 16 templates that are used to photocopy the 16 pages for each each student. The finished product is an unique notebook which opens up like a lotus flower as the traditional High School Chemistry course material is revealed for review and study.

The Chemistry Lotus Leaf Notebook

This lesson plan booklet parallels the lessons on the 3-D Chemistry Cube. Each page is a 2-D replica of the same units of study found on the 8 cubes which are inside one another. The 2-D lessons are folded and become a 3-D notebook when tucked inside one another.

Lecture from the Blackboard...

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This product contains templates which the teacher or facilitator photocopies and hands out to each student. The procedure is to have already covered the material by traditional assignments such as classroom lecture, directed textbook reading assignments, homework, etc.

The students use scissors and markers like felt tips, under-liners, colored pencils, and such to color code the various sets and groups as shown of the Lotus Leaf hand out.

When the material has been color coded and discussed, the students learn to fold the page so that it becomes a 3-D Graphic Organizer. The lesson book templates are printed such that each module in the eight pages is slightly smaller then the previous. This allows the one to fit inside the last. At the end of the course, each student has a thick Lotus Leaf Notebook which contains a review of all the topics relating to the High School Chemistry Course.

This series of lessons can be tailored to the Middle School Science curriculum by eliminating the more complicated lessons such as the Electron Orbital Addresses, the Elemental Quantum Particles, etc. The lessons can be focused only of the General Physical Science subject matter traditionally studied in the Junior High School, or useful introductory material for accelerated classes.

... students write formula pairing metals with...

First writing the formula for Group I Alkali Metals with valence +1 followed by the common radicals which simply use the metal's name followed by the Radical terminology, the proper subscript can be taught, as well as the Nomenclature.

...have students draw them on their hands...

This project is called the Chemistry Lotus Leaf Notebook because one finished module fits snugly inside the last.

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...with the Common Radicals!

Student learn that the Valence of the Common Radical determines the subscript for the Alkali Metal to which it is attached. This is followed by lessons using the Group II Alkaline Metals with a +2 valence.

Here students come to understand that the valence +2 determines the subscript on the radical and visa versa. But the nomenclature remains the same, using the metal name followed by the radical name.

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EACH PAGE FOLDS AND FITS INSIDE THE LAST

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These Lotus Leaf Notebooks offer opportunity for Alternative Assessments using the neatness and general appearance of the finished project as a rubric for grading. When Portfolios are used throughout the course to hold finished works, test papers, and examples of student accomplishments, this Lotus Leaf Notebook makes for a useful comparative assessment device for Parent Visitations, as each portfolio can be compared by the parents with those of other students.

CLICK ON LINKS BELOW FOR "HOW TO" INSTRUCTIONS FOR THESE PRODUCTS:

HOW TO UTILIZED THE HAND AS THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

HOW TO FOLD A PAGE IN THE LOTUS LEAF NOTEBOOK:

How TO USE THE BLACKBOARD TO LECTURE ON A LOTUS LEAF PAGE:

HOW TO CUT AND FOLD THE CUBES: