C8021 - Fondamenti e laboratorio di didattica della Chimica 1

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, thestudent:

• knows the main lines of research in chemistry education;
• recognizes the main cognitive difficulties of chemistry;
• contextualizes the founding nuclei of the discipline from a historical-epistemological point of view;
• critically discusses the didactic transpositions of the founding nuclei of chemistry that can be adopted in secondary school classes both in the classroom and in laboratory environments.

Course contents

The difficulties of learning (and teaching) chemistry.

The logical and hierarchical structure of chemistry.

The particle model at the basis of chemistry learning-teaching.

Examples of teaching approaches from a selection of chemistry topics.

On some didactic sequences, active exercises will be carried out in the classroom with the students

Readings/Bibliography

Ezio Roletto. La scuola dell'apprendimento. Erickson, 2005 (available here)

Various bibliographic materials will be provided by the teacher.

Teaching methods

Some moments of frontal teaching with various activities in active teaching in small groups in the classroom.

Assessment methods

There is no evaluation at the end of the teaching activity

Teaching tools

Lecture slides, bibliographic and exercise material provided on the "Virtuale" platform

Office hours

See the website of Sergio Zappoli