SCH4U - Chemistry 12 (2024-25) - A

Enhanced Teacher's Tools

The following set of resources are meant to be used to enhance classroom learning and offer opportunities for differentiated instruction.

Videos

The following set of videos can be used to enhance classroom teaching, clear up misconceptions and/or to offer differentiated methods of instruction.  Teachers are encouraged to show videos to the whole class and then use the content to generate discussion and identify any areas of weakness.  Alternatively teachers can send the video links to individual students to review on their own to help consolidate learning following in-class teaching.

1. Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment
2. History of Atomic Theory
3. An Excited Atom
4. Atoms & Light
5. Atoms: The Space Between
6. The Bohr-Einstein Debate

Links, Games, Quizzes, Simulators

The following set of links offer interactive activities that can be used in different ways.  They can be used as teacher oriented teaching tools, such as using the simulators to demonstrate concepts or alternatively by individual or groups of students to learn through inquiry with limited guidance from the teacher.

1. Summary of Electronic Structure of Atoms
2. Rutherford Animation