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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Didáctica de la Química y Vida Cotidiana
(Chemistry and nowadays Life Didactics)
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Gabriel Pinto
NAME OF PRODUCER
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
DATE OF PRODUCTION
2002
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
http://quim.iqi.etsii.upm.es/vidacotidiana/Inicio.htm
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Web Site/Portal
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Problem solving, Modelling, Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Materials Science, Health Science, Environmental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Spanish
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites:

This teaching resource does not require any special software for functioning and has free access.Concepts on general chemistry for secondary school level are needed.

Contents:

This website is a part of a Global Project on teaching and learning of science in general (and chemistry in particular), supported by several spanish institutions. We can find in it several links to educational books, pictures, exercises and problems,analogies for teaching chemistry and scientific spreading. Two sections, about scientific words etymology and educational analogies are particulary insteresting.

We can find a lot of examples about daily life chemistry (materials, medicines, enviroment, etc...)and links to institutions and science museums that promote STS contents in chemistry teaching.

Aims:

- Contribute to the formation of scientific literacy.
- Contribute to the students' motivation in learning chemistry and other experimental sciences.
- Support the work of teachers in science subjects at various educational levels.
- To emphasize upon students the role of chemistry on social behavior.

Use in classroom:
This resource can be used by the students(problems, questions, experiments) and teachers (images, books, educational analogies, resources).

The educational materials are des,igned can be used in these levels and subjects:
3º ESO / Physics and Chemistry
4º ESO / Physics and Chemistry
1º Bachillerato / Physics and Chemistry
COMMENTS
Points of strength:
-The educational analogies on chemistry. They are very useful to teachers.
-The problems and questions are contextualized and can be interesting for students.
-Section about ethymology promotes relationship with other subjects.
-Promotes STS contents.

Points of weakness:
-Some links doesn´t work or not updated.
-Only two experiments in "experiments section".

Scientific reliability:
Good

Pedagogic value:
It has a high pedagogic value for teachers who want relate chemistry with daily life and society problems.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
CECE

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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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