Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
General Chemistry Nature of Matter Physical Chemistry Quantum Mechanics	Representations Models and Representations Technology Online and e-Resources	Particle-Wave Duality	Try to show students that the fundamental form of matter is energy. Then that this can be represented as particles with mass or as waves (wave functions). ... more
General Chemistry Nature of Matter	Content Structure Big Picture Focus Representations Models and Representations	A Series of Models	Try and get across the bigger picture - everything you're going to do is going to be a model. Nothing is going to be right. Nothing is going to be wrong. Nothing is going to be exactly the way it is. Everything is a series of models.
General Chemistry Nature of Matter	Active Learning Student Participation	Predict-Observe-Explain	Provide students with learning experiences via predict-observe-explain.
General Chemistry Practical Chemistry	Representations Models and Representations Visualisation	Concept Map the Calculations	The way back-titrations are taught is often confusing. Get them to concept map the calculation. So, instead of trying to do the calculation in their head, map it out starting from where they end up, and then relate each of those steps to where that number is coming from. Have them think about it... more
General Chemistry Practical Chemistry	Content Structure Big Picture Focus	Link to Lab Experience	Use examples from the lab course/component to link to their own experience.

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