Demonstrations, recording lectures and past papers
Discussions from the magazine, blog, website and social media
In preparation for Demo Day (part of British Science Week), we asked teachers to tell us about their favourite chemistry demonstration. Most popular was the screaming jelly baby. Our readers contacted us to let us know why, although lots of other experiments were also championed.
Katherine Haxton wrote about the value of recording lectures and a project at Keele University that publishes them on a virtual learning environment, teachers related their experiences in recording lectures and introducing this method to their institutions.
Tom Husband’s students are obsessed with past paper questions. However, they use them to learn mark scheme answers by rote, rather than fully understanding chemistry concepts. So Tom is going to stop assigning past paper questions for homework. Some teachers sympathised with Tom, whilst others discussed how past papers can support students. This also sparked a discussion on how the use of past papers affected university teachers.
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