5 practical ideas for using Johnstone’s triangle

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How to help your students link conceptual levels

Teachers can help their students make connections between conceptual ideas by modelling their own thinking. This is important because teachers as chemistry experts easily visualise the connections between ideas that are linked by processes that we can’t see, but students don’t. Using Johnstone’s triangle, you can link the macroscopic, sub-microscopic and symbolic, helping students to make these connections. This article presents five ways to do this with the downloadable worksheet.

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