Teaching Resources

Education Portal

Various authors

Ministry of National Education - Turkey

On-going

Web Site/Portal

Basic, Medium, Advanced

Cooperative learning, Problem solving, Peer education, Modelling, Experiential learning

Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Materials Science, Food Science, History of Chemistry, Health Science, Industrial Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry

Primary School, Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School

Turkish

No

This web-site is the official educational portal of the Ministry of Education in Turkey. It has a huge number of educational materials. The portal aims to support students, teachers, parents and administrators with relevant educational content for each group. Registration is needed to use all of the materials in the site. The Ministry of education gives the usernames and passwords for all students, teachers, parents and administrators. Most of the material on this site are open to public and free.
This web-site has all of the lessons of primary and secondary education as well as chemistry. It has a huge variety of educational materials like interactive activities, samples, modeling, videos, e-texts, exercises etc.
Contents of this web-site are highly reliable and very well-quality in terms of scientific and pedagogical manners. There are many interactive educational materials that can attract students attention to chemistry. The interactive materials are easy to use and colorful.
In addition, there are many videos about the use of chemistry in everyday life situations. The videos are clear and easy to understand the general and basic uses of chemistry.
Many of the activities are aiming at making the connection of chemistry with everyday life applications and phenomena. In this way, the material aims to increase student motivation to learn and study chemistry and science in general.
The educational materials are designed for classroom use and the topics are very well grouped for the grades and lessons in the regular curriculum of Turkey. Some educational technologies like computers, overhead projectors etc. are needed to use in regular classroom environments.

This web-site is specially designed for students, teachers, parents and other stakeholders of education by experts of each field. The material is scientifically reliable and it covers a wide range of activities, videos, interactive materials and solutions to problems about chemistry subjects in the regular curriculum. Especially interactive materials on the site are very useful for classroom and everyday use. They are very attractive for students that they can learn by themselves without being bored. The interactive materials are also very useful for teachers to use in their teaching. The materials can not be downloaded. So, internet connection is needed to use in the classroom. The only weakness of the web-site is the need for registration for many of the materials.

Kırıkkale University Education Faculty