Tag: 21-A10

Audience: This book is intended for students who have at least been introduced to chemical concepts but preferably have more experience with chemistry under their belts

Purpose: This book is intended to illustrate some chemical concepts previously learned in the classroom through a fun, if simple, story. Students/the audience is asked some questions at the end which allow them to reflect on the story.

Use in the classroom: I would love to use this story as a preface to students coming up with their own way to illustrate a chemical concept, bringing some fun and creativity to a subject typically considered difficult and uninteresting. However, as it is, I think it is a great way to get students to apply what they have learned and use critical thinking skills to reflect on the story itself.

Here are the contents of the book as well:

This book is designed to be versatile for a few different lessons. Firstly, it’s written in the past tense, so it can be used in a past tense unit with examples of regular and irregular verbs conjugated for the past. It also features a variety of Paris monuments and cultural icons, so it would be a helpful introduction into a unit on Paris. This could either be a reading and listening comprehension activity, or a model for students to create their own book about a trip where they use the past tense to describe their activities. It can be difficult to find good kids books in French, especially online, that my students find both accessible and interesting, so I think that Book Creator is a great option for me to make stories that reflect exactly what we’re working on (and based on their prior knowledge) or for students to write their own in a format different from a slideshow.

(all photos, including cover photo, taken by Rachel Booth)