Medley of models for chemistry

Medley of models for chemistry
William Hirst
William's Games
2016 | 197 pages (13 pdfs) | £25

This resource, essentially a set of simple games and patterns to help students learn the definitions of scientific terms relevant to chemistry at Key Stage 3, may be useful to support students with English as a second language, where terminology can be an additional barrier to learning. The author goes further than this in his introduction and appears to suggest that learning to use scientific vocabulary is at least as hard as learning a new language, even for students whose first language is English. While I agree decoding jargon is important, I’m not entirely convinced by his evidence of the scale of the problem.

Trevor Critchley reviews Medley of models for chemistry as a resource to support EAL students.