Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Representations Models and Representations Visualisation	Diagram of Many Molecules Reaching Equilibrium	Use large scale diagrams with many molecules to show the progression from initial to reacting to equilibrium, and extend that with changes to the system that influence the equilibrium. In these ensure that there are many molecules present rather than one.
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Representations Demonstration and Simulation Visualisation Technology Online and e-Resources	Equilibrium Animations	Use animations to show what happens as reactions come to equilibrium. Link to PhET Simmulation: Reversible Reactions
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Population Analogy	Use the analogy of populations migrating between adjacent cities.
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Big Picture Focus	Discuss in Terms of Concentration	Extend equilibrium to a more general discussion of concentration. If you increase the amount of one reactant, or if you compress the system - all of those things could be considered just as changes of concentration. Rather than splitting them up into different categories of changes of... more
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Big Picture Focus Link to Other Topics Mode of Delivery Reinforcement and Repetition	Link to Previous Experience	It’s really important always to keep going back to links of where they might have seen equilibrium previously, because then they start to get the idea of chemistry topics being interrelated. Even put at the end of each lecture a little problem, for example, ‘how is equilibrium related to acids... more

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