Teaching Secondary Chemistry 2nd edition
Keith Taber

ISBN: 9781444124323
Publisher: Hodder Education
Paperback: 288 pages 
PUB Date: Feb 2012

£19.99

This book will provide invaluable support whether you are a newly-qualified science teacher, an experience teacher of chemistry who wants to extend the range of strategies and approached used, a biologist or physicist who has to teach chemistry, or a student training to be a teacher. Each chapter covers a broad section of the curriculum and is divided into topics. For each topic the book covers:

• The pupil's possible Previous knowledge
  

• A suggested Teaching sequence with activities necessary to cover the basic physics
  

• Warnings about pupils' misconceptions, common problems with individual activities and safety issues
  

• Further activities that develop the pupils' understanding of the topic
  

• Enhancement ideas that relate the science to everyday contexts and provide new ideas for experienced teachers
  

• Suggestions for using ICT
  
  This second edition reflects the latest requirement of the National Curriculum, GCSE specifications, ideas from recent curriculum development projects and the current availability of IT.
  
  This book draws on the experience of a wide range of teachers and those involved in science education. It has been produced as part of the Association for Science Education's commitment to supporting science teacher by disseminating best practice and new ideas to enhance teaching.
  
  
• Contains easy-to-implement ideas for effective lessons for secondary school students
• Translates academic research into classroom activities
• Reflects current curriculum requirements
  
  Table of Contents:
  1 Introducing chemistry
  2 Particles
  3 Chemistry of carbon compounds
  4 Extracting metals from rocks
  5 Chemical calculations and the mole
  6 Geological changes
  7 The Periodic table
  8 Rates of reaction
  9 Industrial chemistry