Teaching secondary chemistry
Teaching sequences, activities and potential misconceptions
It was in a meeting at the RSC last summer that I announced I had been seriously considering a drastic rethink of the way I approached the teaching of bonding. Despite being prepared for my students' misconceptions and trying to address them with the excellent resources prepared by Keith Taber, I felt I was swimming against the tide from the moment ionic bonding was introduced.
Coincidentally, the new edition of Keith Taber's ASE science practice: teaching secondary chemistry had just been published and I was asked to take a look. The book is aimed as a general handbook to support the teaching of the subject. The list of authors reads like a who's who of chemistry education.
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