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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Chemistry in Action!
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Peter Childs, Hon. Editor
NAME OF PRODUCER
Peter Childs
DATE OF PRODUCTION
on-going
TYPE OF PRODUCT
magazine
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium, Advanced
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Peer education
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Materials Science, Food Science, History of Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
This magazine is produced 3 times each year and distributed to Irish chemistry teachers free of charge. Subscriptions are also available.
While only some back issues are available on the website, and they may appear dated, they still contain a lot of relevant content about all types of issues to support chemistry teaching.
A flavour of the type of items in the magazine can be had from the contents index of one issue:
Editorial
3.Educational News
7. Learning to teach on the job
9. Archer Martin
11. Chymists: that strange class of mortals
12. Contributions to the Science Education Debate
13. Critical Questions
19 .The importance of Science
21. Empirical Research into Chemical Education
24. Chemical Classics
31. 100 Distinguised European Chemists
33. 2002 LC Results and CAO Points
39. Diary
40. Twelve of the best
44. Places to visit: Birr Castle
45. C60 - A Nobel Prize Winning Molecule
49. Chem Tips 5
50. ChemMiscellany
51. Chemical. mining and Environmental News
COMMENTS
The website is being updated and this will be reflected in updates to this link.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Limerick Institute of Technology

Comments about this Publication

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Date: 2013.01.25

Posted by Helena Kaniewska (Poland)

Message: This magazine is a very theoretical source of information quite interesting but rather for univeristy students. Secondary and junior secondary students may find it to serious and problematic to read. Some articles are quite comlex and quite difficult to follow for the average student. In issue 53 there are some interesting and funny comments about the computers, microchips and electrons which were real good resource for disscussion for my students.

Date: 2012.10.03

Posted by Murat DEMİRBAŞ (Turkey)

Message: This teaching resource is a magazine that publishes three times in each year an it is actually for chemistry teachers. The web site is produced by Peter Childs and the web site also includes Chem Ed Ireland Discussion Group, Chemistry Diary of Events, ChemEd-Ireland Conferences, Education in Chemistry, Chemical Classics links for the chmeistry teachers. This source is a literacy resource for chemistry and the chemistry in action first issue is published in 1980, so this is a wide historical literacy for chemistry. I think it is difficult to read and understand for basic chemistry students, because there are very complex issues in the magazine, but it is important for to see the chemistry events from 1980s till today in this magazine. And the other good thing is, there are really interesting stories related to chemistry in some issues and it can attract people’s attention to chemistry as a science area.

National Reports on successful experiences to promote lifelong learning for chemistry The national reports on chemistry successful experiences to promote lifelong learning for chemistry are now available on the related section of the project portal. The reports presents examples of successful experiences in the partner countries and the results of testing of ICT resources with science teachers.

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