The Changes inPre-Service Chemistry Teachers OrientationsTowards Chemistry TeachingDuring Chemistry Teaching Method Courses

Collaborative Teaching Across Freshman Information Technology and Chemistry Courses

College SCienCe TeaChing F aculty at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, often look for potential collaborations between departments to provide the cadets (students) with a broader sense of how topics interrelate in their courses. Because our curriculum is very structured, with 30 core courses in a 40to 43-course program, students are generally enrolled in the same cours...

Chemistry for whom? Gender awareness in teaching and learning chemistry

Marie Ståhl and Anita Hussénius have defined what discourses dominate national tests in chemistry for Grade 9 in Sweden by using feminist, critical didactic perspectives. This response seeks to expand the results in Ståhl and Hussénius’s article Chemistry inside an epistemological community box!—Discursive exclusions and inclusions in the Swedish national tests in chemistry, by using different ...

Polymer Laboratory: Teaching Polymer Chemistry

This work aims to present the results achieved within the science communication project CV/PVI/1386-Laboratório de Polímeros (Polymer Laboratory), financed by Ciência Viva Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica (2006-2008). Several demonstration/experimental kits were developed concerning three main thematics: (1) Polymer concepts; (2) Polymer synthesis and (3) Polymer propert...

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Microencapsulation in Food Chemistry

Encapsulation, invented in 1953 by B.K. Green & L. Schleicher employed in the laboratories of the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, USA, is defned as a technology of packaging solids, liquids, or gaseous materials in miniature, sealed capsules that can release their contents at controlled rates under specifc conditions. Encapsulation involves the incorporation of ...