Teaching Strategies

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Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Forbidden Transitions Analogy	Use an analogy for forbidden transitions in phosphorescence: Anecdotes from the movie 'Born American' (1986). American Backpackers cross from Finland into Soviet era Russia and try to get out again!
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Representations Analogies and Metaphors Models and Representations	Quantum Mechanics for Large Objects	We describe quantum mechanics for an electron, but when it’s a tennis ball, what would the equation look like? This gives them the idea that the model works for every kind of particle.
Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Large Scale Analogies	Students tend to think that large-scale analogies are appropriate. For example, billiard balls colliding. Use such analogies but then deconstruct them for an introduction to quantum mechanics. Link to... more
General Chemistry Nature of Matter	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Macroscopic Analogies	Students come in, like all of us, trying to apply macroscopic analogies to everything – (the billiard balls colliding and similar things) and using them as models for atoms. Try to get across that it's a simple analogy but it's not as simple as that in reality. I guess go back a step and try and... more
General Chemistry Stoichiometry/ Equations/ Formulae	Representations Analogies and Metaphors Demonstration and Simulation Visualisation Technology Online and e-Resources	Limiting Reagents Using Sandwiches	Something you can do visually in the lecture theatre is to take in some things you wish to connect and make up an item. Or in PhET, for example, there’s a little activity you can do making sandwiches and you can work out how much you need of which one and whether you’ve got something that’s... more

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