Teaching - Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry

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how Organic chemistry works for teachers

Teachers show animated 'slides' on a screen or whiteboard to explain a reaction mechanism. A slide normally takes two minutes to explain but a mechanism takes a bit longer. Students see the animation but unlike a movie it pauses. Click the 'red' double bond of ethene. Red means ‘click me'.
You can use a pause to ask why is bromine polarised? What will happen next? In this case the bond line turns into 'electrons'. A slider will be present to let you back-track.

how Organic chemistry helps learning

The software is not a rolling lecture and requires a bit of thinking. The student's task is to turn the animation into words or discuss it. For the example above, they could draw the mechanism and explain it as if they were a teacher. With the help of animation, writing notes about the substitution of benzene' becomes a great way to learn.

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