Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
General Chemistry Electronic Structure/ Electronegativity/ Shape	Active Learning Student Participation Representations Models and Representations Visualisation	Bring Their Own Model Kit	Particularly for the VSEPR theory, models of any kind are great. Tell the students, 'Buy a model kit.' Because it has to be something three-dimensional. They need to bring their own models in so they can do it themselves.
General Chemistry Electronic Structure/ Electronegativity/ Shape	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Orbital Analogies	Use an analogy for filling orbitals, such as climbing up a ladder or building a house from the bottom up.
General Chemistry Electronic Structure/ Electronegativity/ Shape	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Bus Analogy	In hybridisation, we have the idea that the energy at the atomic levels are changing - they're not going to be the same as an isolated atom on its own. Think about if you were sitting next to someone on the bus. You would sit there differently than if you were sitting there alone. If you're the... more
General Chemistry Electronic Structure/ Electronegativity/ Shape	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Kid's Rooms Analogy	An analogy for talking about Hund’s rule (where the p orbitals fill up) is that it’s like parents deciding where siblings will sleep. If you have enough rooms you put each person in one room because that's peaceful for everybody and everybody prefers that. If you have an extra child you have a... more
General Chemistry Electronic Structure/ Electronegativity/ Shape	Representations Analogies and Metaphors	Ball on Steps Analogy	An analogy in quantisation of energy states takes advantage of the fact that in many lecture theatres there are shallow steps going down to the front. Think of a ball rolling down the steps. It can't stop halfway down the steps. It seems like a really simplistic way of thinking of it, but in... more

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