Unit GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- 40999704
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Noelia Faginas Lago
- Teachers
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- Maria Noelia Faginas Lago
- Hours
- 24 ore - Maria Noelia Faginas Lago
- CFU
- 4
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline chimiche
- Academic discipline
- CHIM/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- In this course, several topics with chemical content and which are suitable for pupils of primary schools will be suggested. To this end, we will first outline the underlying concepts of the microscopic structure of matter and then describe and elaborate possible educational paths. There will be some emphasis on the basis of the scientific method and the natural or otherwise common phenomena in everyday life that have a clear chemical connotation.
- Reference texts
- Slides from the teacher
- Educational objectives
- tudends who have followed this course will: 1) know how to set learning units with a chemistry content in the primary school 2) be able to perform simple experiments or explain phenomena common in everyday life (cooking food, detergents).
- Prerequisites
- To follow the course, students must master those simple basic aspects of chemistry that are taught in high school.
- Teaching methods
- Seminar lectures with audiovisual material. If is possible we will do some multimedial learning units, like LO
- Other information
- For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page http: /www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is divided into two parts. In the first part, a questionnaire with 10 closed questions and 5 open questions will be administered, followed by (if judged sufficient) a second oral part.
The oral exam (in about 15/20 minutes) consists in the preparation and presentation in the classroom of a teaching unit, including the simulation of a frontal lesson, on a topic related to one of the following themes:
1)Classification of the matter; 2) The atomic and molecular structure of matter (atoms and molecules); 3) Chemical bonds and intermolecular interaction forces; 4) The states of aggregation; 5) Changes of state; 6) The solutions 7) Environmental chemistry
The presentation of the teaching unit must be contextualized and must be clearly specified: the contents, objectives, prerequisites, teaching methods and methods of verification. The exam will continue with the simulation of a lesson, taking a topic among those foreseen within the chosen didactic unit.
The oral exam will also allow to verify the student's communication skills with language properties and autonomous organization of the exposition of the topics. - Extended program
- 1) Classification of matter: mixtures, compounds, elementary substances, states of matter. Physical and chemical transformations. The units of measure. International System.
2) The atomic and molecular structure of matter (atoms and molecules): The atom. The fundamental particles. Thomson models. Rutherford's experiment. Atomic number and mass number. isotopes. Atomic mass, molecular mass. Light-electron interaction. Bohr's atomic model. Uncertainty principle. Shrödinger equation. Atomic orbitals and quantum numbers. Electronic configuration. The periodic table. Periodic properties of the elements. Metals and non-metals.
3) Chemical bonds and intermolecular interaction forces: Covalent bond. Lewis theory. Resonance. Geometry in polyatomic molecules. Polarity of the chemical bond. chemical reactions. Elementary substances. Classes of compounds.
4) The states of aggregation: The gaseous state. Read by Avogadro, Boyle and Charles. The equation of state of ideal gases. The liquid state. The solid state. Crystalline solids: ionic, metallic, covalent, molecular. Intermolecular forces. van der Waals forces. Hydrogen bond.
5) State transitions: The water cycle, State transitions. Phase diagrams.
6) The solutions: The properties of the solutions, Ways of expressing the concentration. Liquid and solid solutions.
7)Equilibrium in Solution. Acids and bases. Arrenhius and Brønsted-Lowry theory. Strength of acids and bases. Definition of pH. Acid-base indicators.
8) Environmental chemistry: Air, greenhouse effect