Unit GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- GP002982
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Nadia Balucani
- Teachers
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- Nadia Balucani
- Hours
- 24 ore - Nadia Balucani
- CFU
- 4
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2014
- Offered
- 2018/19
- 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
- Lecture notes + a chemistry textbook of High School or University level (e.g. General Chemistry by Ralph H. Petrucci).
- Educational objectives
- Studends 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. Flipped classroom (only for several topics).
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is divided into two parts. The first part will be a questionnaire (10 closed questions and 5 open questions). In the second part, the student will schematically illustrate (in about 15 minutes) the structure of a learning unit aimed at pupils in primary school on one of the following topics: 1) The Scientific Method; 2) Atoms and Molecules; 3) Aggregation States; 4) Property Solutions; 5) The Water Cycle; 6) Air. Each of the two parts of the test will have an estimate expressed in fifteenth. The final vote will be given by the sum of the two partial votes.
- Extended program
- 1) The scientific method
2) The atomic and molecular structure of matter (atoms and molecules)
3) Chemical bonds and intermolecular interaction forces
4) Aggregation states
5) State changes
6) The properties of solutions
7) Water cycle
8) Air