It’s August. Many homeschool people are busy choosing chemistry teaching units for this upcoming school year. And mine aren’t available yet.
The City Water Project teaching units are up on Teachers Pay Teachers. These are fun during the summer. Some of the Investigations and Activities can be done inside, but water rockets are definitely an outside activity.
Setting Up Chemistry Teaching Units
My science activity books have several parts. One part has the Investigations and Activities. These are somewhat similar. The first are more like lab work. The latter can be fun stuff.
Another part is composed of pencil puzzles like word searches, deduction problems, quote puzzles, coloring pages. I devise all of these myself and have found doing them for chemistry challenging.
Chem Notes are scattered throughout the unit. These are information/trivia sentences. For chemistry, many are related to the history of chemistry.
Each unit contains a story. For the unit on matter, the story is about flour as flour is used for two Activities. The solutions unit will have a story about making pottery as the clay is a mixture.
These Take Time
I’ll admit it. I’ve been working on the Little Spider illustrations when I should be working on chemistry.
I thought my time would stretch for both. It doesn’t. Each illustration is complex and takes far longer than I anticipated.
Each chemistry teaching unit takes time too. Several are set up. Most need the Chem Story finished. All need the Chem Notes. And I need to redo a few Investigations.
Everything Will Get Done
I keep telling myself exactly this. It is true. If I keep working on one illustration a day, “The Little Spider” will be done in just over three weeks from now.
And the chemistry teaching units will be put up on Teachers Pay Teachers. The first one needs some Chem Notes to finish it.
Is it on chemistry? Sort of. It’s on the metric system, using a scale and significant figures. These are important concepts for the rest of the units.