Beyond Appearances: Students misconceptions about basic chemical ideas
Description
This report presents reviews of research on students’ misconceptions in eleven conceptual areas of chemistry. The most significant misconceptions are described and discussed, together with, where possible, indications about the origins of these.
Audience
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Teacher
Age Group
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Teacher
Subjects
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Development of scientific ideasAsking questionsTeaching chemistryTeaching approaches/pedagogyExpositionINSET & CPDThinking & learningManaging learningEliciting learners' ideasDeveloping conceptsLearning impedimentsTeaching sequences/lesson plansParticlesMolecular shapesBonding modelsLewis structuresCovalent bonds/bondingIonic bonds/bondingInter-particle forcesParticles & matterPhases, phase diagrams, critical pointCharacteristics of the states of matterKinetic theory & particle modelIonic latticesElementsCompoundsSolutionsPhysical properties of materialsAcid-base theoriesConservation of massEntropy & free energyHess's Law and enthalpy cyclesHeating & coolingChanges of stateMixing & dissolvingRepresenting chemical reactionsBurningReactions with oxygenReactions involving metalsPrecipitationReactions involving proton transferEquilibrium changesLe Chatelier's PrincipleEnergy & workFirst law of thermodynamicsSecond law of thermodynamics
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This report is copyright Vanessa Kind 2004. It is supplied here in the form first published in 2004, and so some links may not be current.
