Experiences

Date: 2015.03.01

Posted by Melinte Anamaria (Romania)

Comunicarea, cred ca este importanta in predarea oricarei discipline!

Date: 2014.11.06

Posted by Josep Bernardo i Vera (Spain)

For chemistry teachers it's really important to find the way for communicate with the students. I think that lavoratory experiences are the best way for introducing new concepts and motivating them.
The experiments that the teacher from Romania is describing are basic chemical actions with basic equipment that even the student can find at home.
The results achieved with the experience are really good.

Date: 2014.10.28

Posted by Katarína Javorová (Slovakia)

Similarly, I have to agree. If the teacher communicates with students in a correct way, it is the most significant for their learning. If the teacher links the theory with the experiment it is even better, because students can directly observe what is happening. Experiments belong to the Chemistry, as well as to the Physics, students really like them. Similarly, the Slovak schools also have problem with the equipment of chemical laboratories and very often teacher has to improvise. Teacher is able to demonstrate the basic chemical actions with simple equipment, devices and chemicals which can every student find at home. And if he/she is able to present it appropriately, it can have great effect. I do the similar activity with my students. Students put objects of various materials (wood, plastic, metal) to the prepared mixture and they compare the density of the object with the density of oil or water. Alternatively, we can add something to the mixture – oil, salt, coloured water, etc.

Date: 2014.10.16

Posted by Silviana Ivanova (Bulgaria)

I also think that the most important part of teaching chemistry is communication and laboratory exercises. Regrettably in many schools, as in my high school, the conditions are not very good to have quality laboratory experiments. The example shown here is very good, because with simple means a very good result is achieved.