![]() 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. ![]() I’m sharing back! “Here’s a Function or Not?” Desmos Card Sort with a bonus Nearpod inspired by Open Middle linked in the activity description.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. Tag, you’re it! What will you create using the Card Sort feature? HINT: Select/click a card to see a larger preview. While Desmos enables users to create math/text cards, image cards, and graph cards right in the Desmos platform, you may have noticed that I like to add a level of color-coding to my card sorts.Ĭreating some, or even all, of the cards in Keynote, exporting the Keynote slides as images, and adding each of these images to an “image card” in Desmos gives a little more control and customization if you’re a color-coding enthusiast like me. ![]() Real Number Sort: ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, NEVER Grab these links and save them somewhere handy so you’ll remember you have these in your back pocket this fall, as well as this collection that’s sure to continue to grow! These may come in handy in the early weeks of the new school year, as they address some fundamentally mathy concepts. If you’re just realizing that Card Sort exists (I know… breathe… I was excited too), and you want to get started, check out Julie Reulbach’s wonderful post here where she also mentions that… yes… teachers can now create Desmos Marbleslides activities as well! ![]() to sort through, between blog posts, Tweets, Periscopes, Google Docs, and more! One feature that prompted immediate action for me was the official release of the Desmos Card Sort lab creation tool, which is part of the larger Desmos Activity Builder many of us have grown to love over the past year. Recently, I lived virtually and vicariously through all of the wonderful #MTBoS #TMC16 and #descon16 attendees.
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