Chemistry - Student Supply List ideas

[novicechem]

Greetings,

This will be my first year teaching Chemistry at my high school. I am putting together my syllabus and have no idea what to require of my students re: supplies. I remember having a lab notebook and being very organized as a student myself, but I can't remember what my teacher actually asked of us.

Can anyone suggest a supply list and detail how you as a teacher use those supplies? I'm thinking lab notebook, but what will they put in it? I know this may seem like a minute detail, but I really need some ideas.

Thanks!!

[Unregistered]

In my classes, I simply require a pen, notebook (for taking notes that I write on the board & for doing labs that don't come from a workbook), a binder (for keeping all of the 'paper' that I hand back to them), and the textbook. I don't think you need a notebook specifically for the lab. I think that worksheets are a better idea for lab work, where they have charts, etc... already made to record information in.

[Mindilynn]

My supply list:

3 ring binder & tab dividers or post it notes to make sections for notes, quizzes & tests, projects, and lab handouts.

Scientific Calculator

Composition Notebook (serves as a lab notebook...I think they are 59 cents at WalMart now...) I make my students create thier own data tables & charts...

Students organize the following info in their composition notebooks:
Table of contents...p. 1

For each lab the following information:
title
purpose
procedure
data
answers to post-lab questions
graphs

I like doing it this way, because at the end of the year, the students are able to look back and remember all of the labs that they did! I also typically ask a student who has nice handwriting and is going to throw away his/her book if I can keep it. It helps me plan for purchasing supplies for the future and to help my failing mind remember exactly what I did year to year...

[annettemcd]

I agree with all the fine suggestions from mindilynn. I would add that my children's Chemistry teacher also required that everything is put in a binder with tabs and listed in tables of contents for each section. He collects the binders and grades them quarterly.

Though a three hole punch was available in the classroom, I also purchased one that fit into a binder for my daughter.

It was actually pretty funny that my daughter, who is an over-achiever, did a great deal of work on her Chemistry notebook and even decorated the cover; she got a 99/100 on it and was incensed!

In college I was required to purchase my own safety goggles for labs. I do not know it this is too much to ask for high school students, but it is a consideration for such a personal piece of equipment.

[Unregistered]

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[Unregistered]

Coming at this from a non chemistry teacher perspective, but as a teacher who has recently needed to brush up on some chemistry for my personal hobbies (candy making... and stranger) I can tell you what I am finding was helpful from my high school and collage chem.

having a separate book for the lab experiments was nice... ours were chem transfer books, so we had a copy to turn in, and one that was kept for our records.

Outlining what we were going to be doing in our notebook, and making our charts that we thought we would need BEFORE the lab.

And on 2 different occasions having the option of redoing a lab that we were unhappy with our results and felt that our procedure could be refined, or that the results could be duplicated to show that either current science was wrong or there was something else that we weren't accounting for.

All of those things are coming back to me, and helping me as I re-read my college text book so I can understand the following 2 books:

The Science of Sugar Confectionery (Rsc Paperbacks)
by W.P. Edwards (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0854045937/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=IXWCU1W5BS7MH&colid=3TIGLXNA55DD2

The Science of Chocolate (Rsc Paperbacks)
by S. Beckett (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0854046003/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=IWNN8DJG93YYE&colid=3TIGLXNA55DD2


I know the year is more than half over... but I hope that helps, and maybe that you can come up with some neat experiments from those 2 books ?

[SweetMisery2790]

In my school, regular chemistry students are required to take tests with nongraphing calculators so they can't store answers (the newer graphing ones have the periodic table in them)

Also, we had special notebooks for lab which we left in the lab. Each page had a carbon paper behind it, so you could rip out a page and use that at home, and still have a copy in case you lose it. That way you never get someone who puts lab notes on random scraps of paper when they forget their notebook

[Unregistered]

Hi, i am currently a high school student and i need to write a report on a science career. I chose a chemistry teacher. I haven't taken chemistry yet, BUT for the report i need to list some tools that you people use. any help is appreciated, i cant seen to find a solid list on the internet. THANKS!