Samples: students age 15Organic chemistry for age 15
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Samples: students age 16-18Organic chemistry for ages 16-18
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how Organic chemistry works for teachers

Teachers show animated 'slides' on a screen or whiteboard to explain a reaction mechanism, or why a compound dissolves. A slide takes two minutes to explain but a mechanism takes a bit longer.
Students see the animation split into sequences, but unlike a movie it pauses for you to make a point. The double bond of ethene is red to mean ‘click me'. 		  click what's red above

The animation plays and something else turns red. You could use the pause to ask, why is bromine polarised? What’s attracted to what? What will happen next? In this case
the bond line turns into 'electrons'.
 
A slider allows you to back-track through longer sequences.

 


how Organic chemistry helps learning

To students the animated mechanism above presents as a kind of puzzle. The software is not a rolling lecture and requires a bit of thinking. The student's task is to turn the animation into words as they discuss, use their texts and work actively. For the example above, they would draw the mechanism in their book and explain it as if they were a teacher. With the help of animation, asking students to ‘take notes on amines’ or 'write about the substitution of benzene' becomes a great way to learn.


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