Teaching Resources

Studiumchemie: Portal Supporting Education in Chemistry

Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

www.studiumchemie.cz

Web Site/Portal

Advanced

Experiential learning

Fundamental Chemistry

Upper Secondary School

Czech

No

• The prerequisites: Regarding the Web user prerequisites, then those are interest in chemistry and knowledge of chemistry at the secondary school level. Some of the materials are quite advanced therefore they cannot serve as a study material itself for students at home. Rather they can be used as an interesting teaching material support during classes accompanied with proper description and explanation.
• The contents: The content is forthcoming and well structured. It is possible to orient within the content by interest, profession, field of study, etc. The content of the materials provides basic as well as detailed information about studies at the Faculty of Science at Charles University, about experiments, about teaching and especially about motivating experiments for pupils, teachers and students. Links and questions are also included and answered accurately and responsibly. Invitations to events of the Faculty are also included.
• The aims: As the objectives I see support for students and chemistry teachers; and assistance in teaching practice. The website provides useful materials that would take large amounts of time to be shown during classes otherwise.
• How to use it in class: The use during teaching is particularly appropriate for projection of experiments that would not otherwise be conducted it the classroom for lack of time reasons or cannot be performed due to missing chemicals and also for safety reasons. The use is appropriate as a motivational material for the teaching and also as support for teachers in technical issues (to queries). It seems quite important to show the theoretical part in praxis to motivate students and to provide them with real life explanation of the theoretical instructions which might not make sense otherwise. These videos are very useful in this matter and seems to be time saving for teachers as they show what would have otherwise take large amounts of time to prepare and conduct.

• The prerequisites: Regarding the Web user prerequisites, then those are interest in chemistry and knowledge of chemistry at the secondary school level. Some of the materials are quite advanced therefore they cannot serve as a study material itself for students at home. Rather they can be used as an interesting teaching material support during classes accompanied with proper description and explanation.
• The contents: The content is forthcoming and well structured. It is possible to orient within the content by interest, profession, field of study, etc. The content of the materials provides basic as well as detailed information about studies at the Faculty of Science at Charles University, about experiments, about teaching and especially about motivating experiments for pupils, teachers and students. Links and questions are also included and answered accurately and responsibly. Invitations to events of the Faculty are also included.
• The aims: As the objectives I see support for students and chemistry teachers; and assistance in teaching practice. The website provides useful materials that would take large amounts of time to be shown during classes otherwise.
• How to use it in class: The use during teaching is particularly appropriate for projection of experiments that would not otherwise be conducted it the classroom for lack of time reasons or cannot be performed due to missing chemicals and also for safety reasons. The use is appropriate as a motivational material for the teaching and also as support for teachers in technical issues (to queries). It seems quite important to show the theoretical part in praxis to motivate students and to provide them with real life explanation of the theoretical instructions which might not make sense otherwise. These videos are very useful in this matter and seems to be time saving for teachers as they show what would have otherwise take large amounts of time to prepare and conduct.

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