Creating IWB Material
More and more schools start to replace their blackboards by electronic systems so called Interactive Whiteboards (IWB). Blackboards and Whiteboards are used almost identically i.e. teachers and pupils can write or draw on their surface. What is different are the tools. Chalk is used for blackboards while Interactive Whiteboards need special kinds of markers. Because Whiteboards are interactive, teachers are able to save and print their notes and distribute them over a network.
IWB Material for chemistry classes
Unfortunately there are not many IWB resources for chemistry teachers. In the following I will present three of them which I find very useful.
(a) The interactive periodic table
The software for Interactive Whiteboards consists of 14 teaching modules.
All of them deal with the structure of the atoms and the periodic table of elements.
Link: http://brainboard.de/videos/das_periodensystem.html
(b) Panels for Interactive Whiteboards
The panels for Interactive Whiteboards are suitable for 10th grade chemistry lessons.
They deal with atom- and ionic-compounds.
Link: http://superlehrer.de/index.php?title=Tafelbilder
(c) Interactive Flash Animations (e.g. The synthesis of sodium chloride)
The collection of interactive Flash animations "The synthesis of sodium chloride" consists
of 8 separate programme parts (several videoclips, chemical reactions and experiments).
Link: http://www.rpschmitz.homepage.t-online.de/flashfilme.htm