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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Education IT Network
IMAGE
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Various Authors
NAME OF PRODUCER
Ministry of National Education
DATE OF PRODUCTION
On-Going
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Online course, Web Site/Portal, Downloadable software, Downloadable material
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium, Advanced
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Problem solving, Peer education, Modelling, Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Materials Science, Food Science, History of Chemistry, Health Science, Industrial Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Primary School, Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
Turkish
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
This web-site is an educational portal directed by the Ministry of Education in Turkey. It’s name is “Education IT Network”. It aims at bringing students, teachers and other shareholders of education together. It stimulates to share the educational on-line materials on the portal. So, it has a huge number of educational materials. The portal also aims to support students, teachers, parents and administrators with relevant educational content for each group.
Registration is not needed to use all of the materials in the site. All of the materials on this site are open to public and free. This web-site has many 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.
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.
There are also some blogs and forum areas on the site so that teachers and administrators can share their ideas and material.
COMMENTS
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. Some of the materials can be downloaded to personal computers. Teachers can also share their ideas and ask questions to each other on the blogs.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Kırıkkale University Education Faculty

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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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