Essentials of Chemical Education

• Main Authors: Barke, Hans-Dieter (Author), Harsch, Günther (Author), Schmid, Siegbert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Science education.; Teaching.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.

For everybody teaching chemistry or becoming a chemistry teacher, the authors provide a practice-oriented overview with numerous examples from current chemical education, including experiments, models and exercises as well as relevant results from research on learning and teaching. With their proven...

Table of Contents:

• Learners ideas and misconceptions
• Motivation
• Teaching aims
• Media
• Experiments
• Structural and mental models
• Scientific terminology and chemical symbols
• Everyday life and chemistry.-  Students discover Organic Chemistry – a Phenomena-oriented and Inquiry-based Network Concept (PIN-Concept)
• Structure-oriented approach in chemistry education.       .