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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
NBC LEARN - Free resources – Chemistry now
NAME OF PRODUCER
NBC Universal Media
DATE OF PRODUCTION
2012
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Web Site/Portal
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Basic, Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Problem solving
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Primary School, Lower Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
NBC Learn has already digitized more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News archives — one of the largest news archives in the world, dating back to the 1920s. In addition, collections are updated with current events every day. NBC Learn is staffed by veteran NBC News producers, who have created scores of original stories and Town Hall events around the country, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, and others. These include such award-winning collections as Chemistry Now, Changing Planet, Science of NFL Football, Science of the Winter Olympic Games, and Finishing the Dream. Our original videos and archival news stories are correlated to state standards and the Common Core, and aligned to more than 25 K-12 and 30 Higher Ed collections. The collections of NBC Learn are available through Internet streaming or for via download. They are also accessible as a stand-alone resource or as a Blackboard building block, which allows users to embed videos directly into Blackboard learning management systems. For a school, a district, or a state, NBC Learn has the tools, technology and innovative content to meet all your 21st century educational needs.
COMMENTS
Very useful web page especially focusing on videos, stories, and what is very interesting this materials are very practical oriented as cheeseburger chemistry, chemistry of pumpkin pie, chemistry of fear and fright, etc.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
TRANSFER Slovensko, s.r.o.

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Date: 2013.01.14

Posted by Divna Brajkovic (HELMo) (Belgium)

Message: This resource is very interesting because it gives meaning to learning through appealing topics.
Indeed, by clicking on “Chemistry Now”, we discover a whole series of topics in chemistry: chemistry of chocolate, chemistry of colours, chemistry of flowers, chemistry of plastics, chemistry of hamburgers...
Each topic includes several documents: videos and/or articles.
Those topics along with the video document situates learning in reality, which is indispensable to give meaning and thus to raise the student’s interest. Indeed, the video document puts the topic in its historical context and provides concrete examples from everyday life.
For each video document, there are two nails (transcript and lessons) and, on its other side, a description of the video with key words. In the “transcript” nail, there is the complete description of the video and in the “lessons” nail, one or several link(s) to teaching note classified by level of studies.
The teaching notes describe experimental activities that can be done by students. Each note explains the pedagogical objectives, the target audience, the key concepts addressed, the definitions of scientific vocabulary, the procedure, the bibliography.
It is an interesting tool for the teacher. Indeed, s/he can integrate visual teaching tools and experimental activities related to the videos in a learning sequence. Thus, these experimental activities and videos will raise students’ interest. Understanding can also be helped, for the films contain animations, explanations, models, experiments… and the teaching notes provide definitions of specific words.
Moreover, the student can better master abstract theoretical concepts thanks to the experimental approach.
Comments in English in the video can be an impediment to the use of the tool. However, the transcription of the video helps better understanding. Moreover, the teacher can consider interdisciplinarity with the English teacher, which gives variety to learning methods.

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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