Raymond WH FONG Science Education Section May 2010 NSS Chemistry Learning & Teaching Strategies Active Reading and Writing Tasks Raymond WH FONG Science Education Section May 2010

Objectives of the Workshops To promote the use of active reading and writing tasks in the learning and teaching of chemistry To share experiences in conducting reading and writing tasks in the chemistry lessons To discuss on how to develop activities from different resource materials To discuss on how to assess students' reading and writing tasks

Resources for Development of Reading and Writing Tasks

How “Post-it Notes” Work?

Chem4Kids http://www.chem4kids.com/

Chem4Kids (Cont’d) Length ~ 300 words Nice illustrations Hyperlinked to other topics Quiz – consolidation

Science News for Kids http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Science News for Kids E.g. The science of disappearing (17/2/2010) Questions for classroom use 1. Before reading: What does it mean to disappear or be invisible? What is light? What would be one use of being able to make something invisible? 2. During reading: What’s one fictional story that includes some way of making something or someone invisible? Who is Steven Cummer and why is he in this story? Did John Pendry actually build an invisibility cloak in 2006? If not, what did he do? Did the first invisibility device actually make something disappear? What are radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum? What is a metamaterial? 3. After Reading Why is it hard to make an invisibility cloak for visible light? Why could you use the same idea for steering light to also protect an island from a tsunami? How would this work? Why might studying metamaterials in college be a good idea?

Science Magazine Ceased publishing Catalyst http://www.philipallan.co.uk ChemMatters Chem 13 News U of Waterloo, Canada http://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/chem13news/index.html Chemistry Review Education in Chemistry

AL Chemistry Exam Papers

Booklets

中國內地化學教育資源網 http://resources.edb.gov.hk/chemistry/

化學趣聞：第一艘輪船與化學之家 對於我國現代化學的發展，徐壽有四個方面的貢獻： 首先是用音譯，解決當時已經知道的六十四種元素的中文名稱，為我國的元素命名打下了基礎。除了少數元素的名稱有變動外，大多數元素的名稱一直沿用到今天(如鈉、鉀、鈣、鎂、鋅、鑽、鎳、錳等) 。對有機化合物，他也採用了音譯的方法。在化學術語方面，當時將現代的“原子”稱為“質點”“元素”稱為“原質”；“原子量”稱為“質點率”等等。 http://resources.edb.gov.hk/chemistry/gaoyi/html/experiments.html#quwen

本地化學科教師網站 李SIR好化學網  生活好化學 URL: http://i.am/chemsir 例 1：氦氣球驚魂記 (2009) 例 2：神聖的奧運聖火(2008) 例 3：鉛來有禍了－有毒玩具回收事件(2007)

Reading and writing tasks as NSS Chemistry SBA tasks?

Examples of SBA Tasks critical reading, analysis and reporting on the contribution of chemistry to the understanding of the material world designing a poster or pamphlet aimed at persuading people to follow the principles of green chemistry writing a report to present the scientific knowledge and concepts acquired after a visit to an industrial plant, and developing a multimedia artefact to illustrate the synthesis of polymers

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