Education in Chemistry provides support for all teachers of chemistry across the secondary, further and higher education sectors. It aims to strengthen the community by providing high quality articles, tools and resources that promote the sharing of best practice and innovative teaching.
Type of Material:
Workshop and Training Material
Recommended Uses:
The material can be used for in-class purposes, assignments, lectures, and self-paced studies.
Technical Requirements:
Standard internet browser to view online articles and advertisements.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, this online resource serves as a content-specific publication for chemsitry educators.
It aims to strengthen the community by providing high quality articles, tools and resources that promote the sharing of best practice and innovative teaching.
Target Student Population:
High School
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Users need basic skills on how to navigate a website.
The content can be used with high school students or even pre-service chemistry teachers.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The material adressed the teaching of chemistry to high school students. It promotes the inclusion of women and it informs users why the gender gap in chemistry should be tackled. The website also offers a collection of material about sustainability, LGBT in chemistry, decolonization of chemistry among other interesting topics.
This is a useful publication for Chemistry educators; enriching their professional learning communities with demonstrations and topics relevant to their area.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The website learning objectives is to provide users with resources on how to teach chemistry in high school. After being exposed to this material, students should be able to apply different knowledge on the science world. Teachers can use this material to explore more ways in which they can transmit knowledge to their students in a way they can figure out the roles of chemistry in the world. Teachers will be able to manipulate the content of the website on different ways as they find it suitable for the type of students they might have.
There are articles and activities included in each issue that support STEM learning and content pedagogical knowledge.
Concerns:
As a reference material, this may not speak to all aspects of Chemistry. The alignment to standards is left up to the educator.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The website is organized in 9 tabs. Each tab displays an array of options so that users can select what they are interestedin specializing on. Users will always see the main menu tabs in spite of clicking on whichever tab. Users will not need lots of information in order to solve technical issues as the website is very user-friendly.
The website uses plenty of images and colors which will attract users.
The site is easy to navigate, clear design, and simple user interface.
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