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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Diverciencia
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Fernando Jimeno Castillo
NAME OF PRODUCER
Fernando Jimeno Castillo
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Web Site/Portal
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Primary School, Lower Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Spanish
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites:

It is required that the student knows the basic knowledge of chemistry.
The educational material available at this site is available freely and does not require any special program for viewing.



Contents:
In diverCiencia is a compilation of 72 laboratory experiences in Physics and Chemistry. All experiences have in common fun aspects, curious, surprising and recreational from Sciences.

Some of these practices are easy to implement, without risk and require no specific laboratory materials, so have been made by students at home as "home practices."
 The collection is divided into four sections:

Chemistry Magic: unexpected results and "fantastic" to be chemical reactions.

Chemistry curious reactions and processes that make us think and that "collide" with the hopes that our common sense.

Physical surprising behavior of matter that break the expectations of our "logic" and have no apparent explanation.

Physical recreation: recreational activities to manipulate objects of everyday life.

DiverCiencia also presents the reading corner, a guide formed by 34 book reviews for the existing popular science books in libraries.

Aims:

- To provide a training to students a scientific culture.
- Use ICT efficiently in research, problem solving and project-based learning in chemistry.
- To have the student appreciate, learn and understand chemistry's basic concepts through experimentation, computer models, to apply that to real-life hands-on situations.

- To change the attitudes of students towards studying science, especially chemistry.

Use in classroom:
The contents can be used by primary and secondary students and in practical sessions, science workshops and science fairs
COMMENTS
Points of strength:
- Attractive design.
- Great diversity of contents.
- Full bibliographic guide for students.
- Home practices workable with simple and inexpensive materials.

Points of weakness
- Content limited to practical and recreational purposes.
- Lack of tools dedicated to verify the effectiveness of learning decreases the didactic value.
Scientific reliability:
Good.

Pedagogic value:
High pedagogic value to motivate students in sciences. Very useful, science workshops, and science fairs.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
CECE

Comments about this Publication

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Date: 2014.04.11

Posted by Maria José Rodrigues (Portugal)

Message: The digital resource has an attractive design, it is dynamic and intuitive. It brings together a wide range of physical and chemical activities organized according to the following thematic blocks: magical chemistry, curious chemistry, amazing physics and recreational physics. For each of the themes, a set of practical activities is proposed, as well as resources (simple materials of general use) and procedures needed to carry them, in practice. The presence of a brief explanation for each activity must be highlighted, facilitating its didactic exploration; nevertheless, this component could be further developed. The addressed themes are of kids interest since they deal with topics related to everyday life phenomena that are part of school curricula.
I consider that the designation of the resource and of the respective proposals shouldn\'t be just associated with fun, but also with learning, highlighting the role of science to explain the phenomena surrounding us. As pointed out by several studies, one of the problems associated with Science Education is often related to the preferential transmission of \"magic\" and \"fun\" neglecting its relevance for competences acquisition which is essential to promote scientific literacy development.
Moreover, the proposal of a set of scientific works, in particular, books of experimental activities, hobbies, curiosities and scientific games, books of science dissemination and scientific assays should be stressed.
In conclusion, the digital resource \"DiverCiencia\", due to the work diversity presented is undoubtedly an asset for teachers wishing to introduce physics and chemistry concepts through practical activities in the early schooling years.

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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