Katy Dornbos

Thank you Craig!

Kelly, wanted to pass along a few finished products I had fun creating. I hope you might find them useful / fun.

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Beth, I have created a finished product and want to pass along the link. My goal is to provide effective, fun, and accurate learning materials…that are nice to look at too.

I’d welcome your feedback, and your sharing them with folks who could use them!

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“Which piece of glassware is best for measuring liquids?”

I have created and drawn some items for chemistry education. I’ve enjoyed making them, and hope you might find them helpful and fun for your students!

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Grateful to be a 2021 PAEMST Awardee.

And grateful for Dianne Epp (my chem teacher), Bob Curtright (cooperating teacher) and Jim Rynearson (mentor), past PAEMST winners who nurtured me and my love for teaching.

Completing this application remains one of the most formative professional experiences.

Reminded of CS Lewis…

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

And there are many more!!

@aserkin.bsky.social @drpchemistry.bsky.social @teresamarx.bsky.social @ashleygreen.bsky.social @puttichem.bsky.social @apchemisme.bsky.social @reitzchemistry.bsky.social @chemhemling.bsky.social

Of the ones you’ve visited what was your favorite?

I started doing this on road trips and it was 100% great. The Iowa State Capitol is awesome. So is Colorado (as you noted). And the Nebraska State Capitol is the only one paid for before it was built. 😂 And it’s beautiful too.

As a science department we made “Johnstone’s triangles” for:

Physics
Biology
Earth science
Chemistry

It was a really fun exercise.

You go girl!!!

Solid boron, a depiction of boron at the atomic level (20% Boron-10, 80% Boron-11) and symbolic representations of the percentages using mass spec (small peak at 10, tall peak at 11) and as an average atomic mass of 10.811 on the periodic table.

I'm writing a book about teaching chemistry with an emphasis on particulate representations. I started about a year ago and have drafts of every chapter plus figures for about 60% of the book. This is the revised Fig. 1.1 and it's actually the first PR my students encounter.

That’s great that POGIL counts toward this for you; it’ll be an awesome PD session.

Thank you, Marty. I’m pleased with how they’re turning out so far. Excited to share them.

Helping students come to imagine our world on the atomic level.

These will be part of a “lab pack”, hoping for a launch in early 2025!

Can you find the match(es)?

“It is easy to see that the world is wounded, hard to see that its healing begins in our own heart.”

- Caryll Houselander

Plus, it would be fun to have kids come and “swipe out” one set of reactants every time a reaction occurs, and move it to products!

Thank you for continuing this conversation. It’s important!!

I have come to love the idea of “low floor, high ceiling”. Conversations, tasks, or participation must be clear, easy, & safe enough to enter, AND must be authentic, concerning important things, or nuanced work. Otherwise it does a disservice to their potential, and they disengage (of course!).

Yes! And (to an extent) student agency is very important to honor if we want true learning to occur.

I’m not familiar with the tiers, Jeremy, at least by their official names. Would you describe them? No rush.

Flame test or “firework investigation” lab🎆🎇

Great for a Friday!

Today in homeroom, in front of the whole class (15 boys, 3 girls), I went through and said what I admire/appreciate about each of them.

And as we did some "interior work" later in the class, kids were giving authentic answers (not the norm😉).

Maybe 'being honored' frees us.

Connecting pictures and text isn’t intuitive for some students. So…I’ve learned to be clear and simply ask them to do it.

After Thanksgiving Break, here’s what STEM students know about water purification. 👏

Love these questions Nora! Evidence of a teacher who values kids and their ideas 🥰

I loved superimposing the graphs and discussing why......?

Yes that’s GREAT.