Vanessa Kind
Vanessa is deputy head of faculty (PG), social sciences and health, and reader in education in the school of education at Durham University.
ResourceStudents’ thinking about acids, bases and neutralisation | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and support learners to identify the key misconceptions around acids and bases among secondary aged students.
ResourceStudents’ difficulties with stoichiometry | Beyond appearances
Go beyond apperances and clarify the difficulties that students have around “the mole concept”.
MisconceptionsStudents’ ideas about chemical bonding | Beyond appearances
Understand key difficulties as students develop their understanding of chemical bonding
ResourceStudents’ ideas about thermodynamics | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances and help learner to understand the thermodynamic reaction from chemical bonds.
ResourceStudents’ ideas about chemical equilibria | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to help support students ideas around chemical equilibria
ResourceDiscussion | Beyond appearances
Engage in the discussion around going beyond appearances and think about your own approach to the chemical world.
ResourceStudents’ ideas about open system chemical events | Beyond appearances
Go beyond appearances to explore open system chemical events, and the key difficulties students have with them.
ResourceStudents’ ideas about the differences between elements, compounds and mixtures | Beyond appearances
Differences between elements, compounds and mixtures form the basis for understanding chemical reactions, explore how students gain these ideas.
ResourceIntroducing “chemical reactions” | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances and introduce chemical reactions to learners, helping them to distinguish between chemical change, and change of state.
ResourceStudents’ ideas about specific chemical events: closed system reactions | Beyond appearances
Move beyond appearances to understand the relative densities of matter and particle theory.
ResourceStudents’ ideas about changes of state | Beyond appearances
Changes in state need changes in thinking to be understood, explore how to support learners to develop a new way of seeing state changes
MisconceptionsStudents’ ideas about the particulate nature of matter | Beyond appearances
A summary of key challenges and misconceptions as young learners form ideas based on the particle model
ResourceStates of matter | Beyond appearances
Deconstruct misconceptions learners may have around states of matter and understand what this means for your teaching
ResourceBeyond Appearances: Students misconceptions about basic chemical ideas
Reviews of research on students’ misconceptions in conceptual areas of chemistry. Misconceptions are described and discussed, together with indications of their origins.
