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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
A formular!
(Let´s formulate)
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Nacho Cloquell Castañer
NAME OF PRODUCER
ITE, [email protected], Ministerio de Educación
DATE OF PRODUCTION
2011
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
http://ntic.educacion.es/w3/eos/MaterialesEducativos/mem2011/aformular/index.htm
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Online course
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Peer education
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Spanish
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
Yes
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites:
Does not require special additional software for functioning. Concepts on general chemistry for secondary school level are needed.

Contents:
This is a web application to learn the inorganic formulation recently awarded by the ITE. The application is based on the principles of interactivity, progressive learning and self-evaluation. We can find led theoretical contents and then practical activities divided in five blocks of contents: basic concepts, oxides, and volatile metal hydrides, hydrogen acids and binary salts.

Aims:
- Develop and facilitate ICT-based learning activities in the context of teaching chemistry.
- provide students with an study of chemistry which will include chemical formulas and nomenclature.

Use in classroom:
We can use theoretical contents in classroom and our students can read the examples and complete the exercises in classroom by themselves or in a cooperative way.
COMMENTS
Points of strength:
-Attractive design.
-Facility in access and use of the resource.
-Self-evaluation activities to verify the effectiveness of learning.
-A didactical guide for teachers.

Points of weakness:
Only shows binary compounds.

Scientific reliability:
Good.

Pedagogic value:
It has a high pedagogical value, due to their attractive design and evaluation activities. It can be used in cooperative and peer to peer learning activities.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
CECE

Comments about this Publication

Your comments are welcome

Date: 2013.06.15

Posted by Noélia Vilas-Boas (Portugal)

Message: In this digital resource, we can find a nice way to present the periodic table of elements, ions and chemical formulas in an articulated and interconnected mode.
I find this resource very useful both for basic and secondary levels, to recall knowledge and consolidate some topics.
As a resource that is available without the need for additional software, handling it becomes easier and faster.
It is also very attractive from the point of view of graphic design and has the ability to be used with a personal avatar very similar to the profiles of multimedia games; it is highly interactive allowing immediate access to quiz answers; it also allows downloading some of the information and evaluation resources for printing.
It may prove to be an additional aid in that it can complement the theoretical study and serve as a self-assessment learning tool.
Despite being structured for an average learning level, the software could include mixed salts and exclude the nomenclature of salts that is not adopted by IUPAC. This is definitely the weak point of this resource.

Date: 2013.06.15

Posted by Fernanda Cordeiro Martins (Portugal)

Message: This resource is very useful; it facilitates contents approach in which regards chemical formulas and nomenclature, essentially at 3rd cycle level. It uses new technologies motivating students and thus facilitating the learning process. It could help students to learn better and faster because it applies a strategy of progressive learning, it is interactive and can be used for self-assessment. This resource is valuable to be used in a classroom environment, nevertheless in my opinion it is not very innovative in what concerns the used didactical approach. In what concerns my particular case, my school has enough resources to use it. In addition, this resource can be easy accessed.

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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