Teaching Resources

Michael Canov

Web Site/Portal

Basic

Cooperative learning, Problem solving

Fundamental Chemistry, Life Chemistry, Materials Science

Primary School, Lower Secondary School

Czech

No

• The prerequisites
The prerequisites of these pages are that many presentations require basic knowledge of chemistry, such as terminology, in order to understand the presentations or just basic knowledge of mathematical functions. In others students do not need to have any special knowledge, only the terms used should be explained during the interpretation of the slides.
• The contents
In the first view, these pages seem very weird. It has special personal way of humour. The website consists of large number of different power point presentations in different subjects with large section of chemistry presentations. The content of the presentations is mostly descriptive fundamental knowledge. In many cases the proposed experimental setup is unnecessarily complicated.
• The aims
The schemes mostly aim to provide simple descriptions of the proposed topic and provide simple experiments to conduct. The schemes provide clear structure of organic and inorganic elements. The main aim is to provide studying materials for students.
• Task Description
For example in the Boyle´s Law presentation students should count the product of two numbers and find out that it is constant. According to previous theory students should think of volume of bubbles that are released from the bottom of the sea.
• How to use it in class
Some of the proposed material can be used for teaching in class, but if it were accompanied by introductory and continuous experiments, it would provide for active experiential learning.

• Points of strength
Conciseness - can be used as an overview
Some contain useful real life examples
• Points of weakness
In the first view, these pages seem very weird. It has special personal way of humour. The website consists of large number of different power point presentations in different subjects with large section of chemistry presentations.Scientific reliability
Presentations are often very simplified, and therefore are bound to contain some inaccuracies.
• Pedagogic value
Given the brevity of the material, the presentations can be used at all levels. At the lowest in this simple way and at higher levels as an introduction to the topic. In any case, it is desirable to include at least a simple experiment.