Preparing Lectures With PowerPoint
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I teach part-time (Thursdays only from September to May) several scientific subjects to a groups of Home Schooled high school students at the H.O.P.E. Academy in Monrovia, CA (near Pasadena). My classes are in Chemistry, Physical Science and Geometry. To make it more interesting and best for the students I make the lectures using OfficeMac PowerPoint and MathType software with an LCD projector. Although this takes more time to prepare the end result is much more efficient and interesting for the students and myself during class. Also the labs for Chemistry and Physical Science can be illustrated first on the screen so the students have a better idea of what's happening. So I try to think up some really cool experiments of the "wow" variety keeping in mind that safety is of paramount importance. We don't really have a laboratory - only a kitchen. So I've got some mini chem kits that I use and perform safe but illustrative experiments. The kits I prefer are "At Home Science Chem Kit 1" and "Micro Chem Kit". These can be purchased rather easily on the Internet and are not very costly. Very efficient and space saving kits and the chemistry is just as exciting and interesting. A lot of the time you can find very common everyday chem experiments that are amazing - check out About.com's About Chemistry - it is a free email based source of information as are most of the other very good About.com subjects so I highly recommend this for educational purposes for teachers, students and especially for home school parent educators. This home school approach to education is rapidly gaining strength especially here in Los Angeles (where all good beginnings seem to happen). Our job at H.O.P.E. Academy (Home School Options for Parent Educators) is to help parents who hit the limit of their abilities so they send their kids to us. Look us up at http://www.thehopeacademy.com we always like new students and more teachers as we grow each year. Contrary to a lot of prejudice the students do not lack "people skills" in fact they are very well prepared and teaching them is extremely rewarding. Perhaps they lack the ability to dodge stray bullets or hidden knives or drugs/booze on campus, but otherwise they are ready for anything and seem to be able to find their strengths much more easily since there is a much better student to teacher ratio (6-8:1 instead of 30-40:1).
I teach part-time (Thursdays only from September to May) several scientific subjects to a groups of Home Schooled high school students at the H.O.P.E. Academy in Monrovia, CA (near Pasadena). My classes are in Chemistry, Physical Science and Geometry. To make it more interesting and best for the students I make the lectures using OfficeMac PowerPoint and MathType software with an LCD projector. Although this takes more time to prepare the end result is much more efficient and interesting for the students and myself during class. Also the labs for Chemistry and Physical Science can be illustrated first on the screen so the students have a better idea of what's happening. So I try to think up some really cool experiments of the "wow" variety keeping in mind that safety is of paramount importance. We don't really have a laboratory - only a kitchen. So I've got some mini chem kits that I use and perform safe but illustrative experiments. The kits I prefer are "At Home Science Chem Kit 1" and "Micro Chem Kit". These can be purchased rather easily on the Internet and are not very costly. Very efficient and space saving kits and the chemistry is just as exciting and interesting. A lot of the time you can find very common everyday chem experiments that are amazing - check out About.com's About Chemistry - it is a free email based source of information as are most of the other very good About.com subjects so I highly recommend this for educational purposes for teachers, students and especially for home school parent educators. This home school approach to education is rapidly gaining strength especially here in Los Angeles (where all good beginnings seem to happen). Our job at H.O.P.E. Academy (Home School Options for Parent Educators) is to help parents who hit the limit of their abilities so they send their kids to us. Look us up at http://www.thehopeacademy.com we always like new students and more teachers as we grow each year. Contrary to a lot of prejudice the students do not lack "people skills" in fact they are very well prepared and teaching them is extremely rewarding. Perhaps they lack the ability to dodge stray bullets or hidden knives or drugs/booze on campus, but otherwise they are ready for anything and seem to be able to find their strengths much more easily since there is a much better student to teacher ratio (6-8:1 instead of 30-40:1).
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