All Misconceptions articles – Page 2
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NewsLearning organic mechanisms – does technology help?
Are chemistry learning applications really worthwhile?
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Ideas
How to use hinge point questions effectively
They can help both you and your students learn – but what are hinge questions, and when should you ask them?
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News
Research points the way to help teach Maxwell—Boltzmann distributions
How to avoid faulty knowledge application by students when teaching distributions of states
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CPD
Why you should teach the history of the periodic table
Because students familiar with the table’s development and structure make better chemists
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News
Which is best: practical or simulation?
Students interact with practicals and simulations differently, but does one approach come with better learning outcomes?
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Feature
Uncover your students' preconceptions
Understanding their existing ideas helps avoid misconceptions
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Ideas
Avoid the pitfalls of language
Help students learn the difference between everyday and chemistry vocabulary
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News
Probing difficulties with quantum atomic models
What you can do to make grasping atomic representations easier
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CPD
States of matter and particle theory
Progressing from macroscopic to the microscopic world of the particle
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Resource
Molecular model misconceptions
Let us take a closer look at the suitability of using molecular models to teach the determination of chemical formulae.
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Ideas
How to make effective interventions
Try a pinchpoint approach to diagnose and address the reasons for learners’ mistakes in school science
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Resource
Chemical comparisons
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
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Opinion
How I tackled misconceptions
Education research inspired me to improve my scheme of work for structure and bonding
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Resource
Concepts in chemistry
This resource includes information about some key misconceptions that have been uncovered by research and ideas about a variety of teaching approaches that may help avoid students acquiring some common misconceptions.
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Scaffolding explanations
This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have in the form of ready-to-use classroom resources.
