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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Chimicamente
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Dino Ticli
DATE OF PRODUCTION
2003
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
http://digilander.libero.it/chimicamente
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Downloadable software
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Modelling
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Italian
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
The prerequisites
The resource is targeted for students of the upper secondary school; it is required that the student knows the basic knowledge of chemistry.

The contents
The website is designed to present some simple exercises about molecular weight, electronegativity and periodic table.

The aims
The software allows students to face some exercises directed towards the calculation of mass, volume, molarity and concentration. Students can choose 8 different exercises.

How to use it in class
The software allows three levels of approach: a presentation by the teacher to show how to do some calculations with the chemistry elements; an individual work where the student can calculate the various molecular masses; a group work where the teacher can present simple problems to the students who have to discuss how to solve it.
COMMENTS
Points of strength
The software is easy and clear.

Points of weakness
The software doesn’t allow complex handling. The students can choose limited changes, so it is useful to present chemistry’s basic aspects.

Scientific reliability
The level of chemistry knowledge is basic; the software is actually a simple chemistry calculating system. In any case, the scientific reliability is not assured by any indication.

Pedagogic value
As we said before, this resource is useful in order to present some scientific basic aspects and calculate some variables. The students can achieve easily the data about the elements and some skills in calculating the different molecular masses. Anyway, the software can be used at the beginning of a course where the students have to assimilate some basic methods. Instead, in order to face complex issues, the teacher needs to use more comprehensive resources
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
University of Genova

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