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Incredible contributions of chemistry with a human touch an overview

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Reviewed:: Feb 12, 2021 by Teacher Education

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Overview:

The site provides useful information about different aspects and impacts of chemistry.It highlights the opportunities and challenges in chemistry.

Type of Material:

Presentation

Recommended Uses:

Teaching institutions of secondary & tertiary levels can use this material to expose value- conscious students to chemistry & its practical applications.

It can be used to complement to other PowerPoint presentations on chemistry.

It can also be used to help students, academics, activists, educators & the common readers make intelligent decisions in the future based on the better understanding of chemistry, by covering various intrinsically interconnected topics of interest ranging from fireworks to food products, from cookware to clothing items, from petrochemicals to paper & from lifesaving drugs to love chemicals.

The presentation is very resourceful and teachers may find useful to split its content. They can use some information to work in class; they can also assign some slides for assingments and students can work individually or as teams. The material offers a diverse way to be used with students.

Technical Requirements:

Browser; one reviewer experienced difficulty using Mozilla Firefox.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

To enhance the public appreciation of chemistry in meeting world needs
To encourage interest in chemistry among the younger generation
To generate enthusiasm in the chemistry community for the creative future
To celebrate the role of scientists & significant historical events in chemistry
To create a society about the future shape of chemistry for sustainability

Target Student Population:

College Upper Division

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

The level of the presentation suggests that the user already has some basic knowledge of chemistry.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The material is focused on the impliations of chemistry and how it is present in every day life. Users can find very technical information which can be later understood with examples from every day activitives. The content does not provide pre-requsitie knowledge for advanced learning in the discipline. Each slide presents introductory and explanatory information about specific details of chemistry and its components. Each piece provides foundations on how to design a lesson. Definetely, course instructors will need to elaborate more on designing a class based on the content each slide contains. The presentation is very resourceful and it delineates the basics of class design.

This material contains great imagery.

Concerns:

While the materials presented are valid and correct, there are too many different topic areas in this one presentation. This packet should be broken down into smaller packets focused on a specific topic. There are 124 slides. While a good resource, it is overwhelming to think about using it in one presentation.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The learning objectives are easy to identify in slide number 9.

The material can be used in different stages of the learning cycle. A teacher can use it to introduce the concept of chemistry, exemplify the different ambits chemistry is found. The material can also be used to assing class projects or research as well as ideas on how to wrap up a topic on chemistry. The target learners need to be curious about exploring the different dimensions of chemistry in all aspects of life. They are expected to be open and engage in analysis on how they can analyze chemistry in almost each action humans do. The target learners should be students in their first stages of studying chemistry or in an advanced level of their studies.

The material challenge users to be creative in adjusting the content to their teaching and learning context. The selection of material is fundamental in this presentation. The content can be perfectly integrated it in the curriculum and pedagogy of the discipline. The diversity of material in the presentation make it easy to distribute learning assignments in the teaching learning process.

Concerns:

Teachers who use this packet will need to be fluent enough to develop the "story" that goes with the slides

In reviewing the objectives, we realized they have been designed from the institution perspective. They are not highly oriented to enhance student learning. For example, objective number 3 reads to generate enthusiasm in the chemistry community for the creative future. That is obviously the objective of the institution or the person who created the content; nonetheless, it is not designed from the student perspective.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

PDF format is available for download. The slides are engaging.

Concerns:

The packet is so large that it won't open in the browser via the LinkedIn platform.

Some slides are really loaded with text.

Other Issues and Comments:: It is not readily evident what the notes below the presentation are for.
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