Test Tools Scratch Sheet: Chemistry

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The GChem and OChem Scratch Sheets are a Scratch Sheets specifically made for chemistry courses! Check out a video of the Scratch Sheet:

http://www.gogreentube.com/watch.php?v=NTM5OTUz

We're also looking to the Scratch Sheet community to show us fun and useful ways they use their Scratch Sheets! Join our facebook page and post a fan picture of your Scratch Sheet in use and we'll send you another Scratch Sheet for free!

The goals of the Scratch Sheet are to help students study effectively, and just as importantly, to reduce paper consumption and make our world a cleaner place to live in.

We'd like to start this discussion off, so reply to this thread with:

• Introduce yourself! (ie school + major)
• How many sheets of scratch paper you think you use in a week (loose leaf to write notes or study for tests and thrown away or recycled)
• What other things do you think can be done on your campus to reduce paper consumption, and consumption in general? What do you already see being done?
  

Everyone who replies will be entered to win the following (4 of these packs will be given away):

• 2 Blank Scratch Sheets
• 1 General Chemistry Scratch Sheet
• 1 Organic Chemistry Scratch Sheet
• 1 Scratch Sheet Pen

Can't wait to see all the responses!

Best,
The Scratch Sheet Team

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[insane]

1) probably 100-150 sheets
2) having the professors post packets, and powerpoints online instead of printing them, and limiting the print limit.

 

[mzblue]

1.School: Dragons + bio major
2.I use TONS of scratch sheet per week (my room is full of paper waste from orgo and physics). I think the fact that i take scrap from where i work lessens the cost for me
3.online homework. reduce amount of wasteful handouts (some handouts i throw in the trash b4 i get out of the classroom. I don't see my school doing anything to reduce paper waste.
ps: i'm really liking this scratch sheet idea, the amount of paper waste i make is atrocious.

 

[crew09]

• Finished undergrad, Preppin for DAT
• I've been using computer paper (blank, white) and my room's a mess. buying notebooks of blank white paper is costly, and I don't like lined paper...
• More whiteboards and easier access to recycle bins.
  
  ps. I began using a mini whiteboard, but the scratch sheet idea would be ideal as it's perfect to fit in a backpack etc. cool stuff..

 

[mediterranean]

1. Stockton and Bio major
2. 100 pages (keep notes at the end of each semester but recycle the rest)
3. Library reuses scratch paper of unwanted documents printed but the rest of the campus needs to shape up. There are recycling bins for paper only inside the library. Most of the teachers also have powerpoints. I would say there would have to be more recycling bins exclusively for paper outside the library.

Can the board be wiped down with wetwipes every once in a while or does not it not "blacken" with frequent use?

 

[scratchsheet]

1. Stockton and Bio major
2. 100 pages (keep notes at the end of each semester but recycle the rest)
3. Library reuses scratch paper of unwanted documents printed but the rest of the campus needs to shape up. There are recycling bins for paper only inside the library. Most of the teachers also have powerpoints. I would say there would have to be more recycling bins exclusively for paper outside the library.

Can the board be wiped down with wetwipes every once in a while or does not it not "blacken" with frequent use?

Great question. If dry erase marker is left on the board for a few weeks and dries out, it's a good idea to wipe it down with a wet wipe. Generally though, you'll find that the Scratch Sheet erases very, very cleanly with no blackening, as long as the coating is not scraped off. If the board is cleared off every week there won't be any problem with drying out. Users have reported that they've been using their Scratch Sheets for an entire school year and they're still going strong.

 

[BigEast55]

1. SUNY-Geneseo, Chem/Bio Double Major
2. I go through a 5 subject notebook and 1-2 1 subject notebooks for homework a semester, so that's ~300 pages a semester?
3. My Biochem prof posts powerpoint notes and requires that people print them, which I think is pretty absurd. However, we as a college no long print syllabi, all of them are available online, also many of our forms are online only.