Chemical Bonding Tutorial

I. Briefly review the project form. Discuss the project theme, outline and time line; review the project and curriculum objectives.

This project is an interactive tutorial on Chemical Bonding for high school chemistry students to use and share with other students throughout the globe.
The following steps were involved in the preparation of this project:

1. Research background material and subject matter.
2. Design questions and answers based entirely on the curriculum objectives set out by the Department of Education in Newfoundland through the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation (APEF) for the unit on Chemical Bonding in Chemistry 2202.
3. Design a web page for the project, integrating and designing images. Included with this was the designing of a chemistry chat room.

II. Show the audience the outcome of the project proposal.

Results and a tour of the project can be seen at: http://www.odonel.k12.nf.ca/science/tut-bond/index.htm

III. Briefly comment on any successes or problems that were encountered throughout the life of the project.

Students gained valuable skills by developing this project. They developed home pages thereby learning HTML, Netscape Composer, Netscape Navigator, Animated Imagery, Chat Room Technology, Corel WordPerfect 8 Word Processing in addition to practising and learning the unit on Chemical Bonding.

IV. Comment on any aspects of the project that you would do differently.

Perhaps relate it more to the junior high chemistry curriculum in science as well, so that these students could avail in this tutorial.

V. Comment on if and how the project can be expanded next year.

The project is continually being updated with new 3D graphics and is presently developing a video chat room for use by other schools in the world. Through chat rooms and e-mail there is continuous interaction between chemistry students of O' Donel and other students throughout the globe.