TEACHING RESOURCES INFORMATION
TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Chemistry Lab and Pilot Plant Tour
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Various (ABPI)
NAME OF PRODUCER
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Online course
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Medium
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Cooperative learning, Experiential learning
SUBJECT AREA
Industrial Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
DESCRIPTION
Many applied school science courses recommend that students should make a site visit to some aspect of the chemical industry. Such visits are often difficult to organize and some areas are almost impossible to get access to. Major constraints on organizing visits to laboratories, pilot plants or production sites are time, space, safety and compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice. Visitors are prohibited in some areas when active large scale chemistry is underway and therefore planning visits weeks in advance becomes impracticable.
To partly address the needs of applied science courses and some A-level chemistry courses, virtual visits of the chemistry laboratories and pilot plant on a pharmaceutical company's sites have been created. Although students can navigate round them at leisure, there may be benefits from them being teacher led using a projected image from the website. Questions are also provided to enhance the learning experience.
The different sections include;
Synthetic Chemistry Laboratory Tour
Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Tour
Scaling Up
This task is an ideal forerunner to the Chemistry Pilot Plant Tour, and asks students to examine the implications of scaling up a 2g reaction up to a 20,000g scale
Chemistry Pilot Plant Tour
Automated Chemistry Laboratory Tour
Safety Signs Tour
Take a virtual tour of the safety signs found within industrial laboratories and corridors
COMMENTS
At Work with Science presents work-related learning in the context of how science is used in the pharmaceutical industry. It has a wealth of information about "how science works" to support GCSE and A-level Science and Applied Science courses as well as work related aspects of other courses and curricula. The various modules range from job application skills, to team working and enterprise activities together with virtual visits to chemistry laboratories and a chemical plant. Seeing chemistry in action may be one valuable way of underpinning the theory students learn in the classroom. The website also would provide useful preparation for groups planning visits to chemical plants, and focus points for post-visit reviews.
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Limerick Institute of Technology
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