Pedagogic roles of animations and simulations in chemistry courses - Suits, Jerry P.; Sanger, Michael J.; American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Education (Washington, DC American Chemical Society, 2013)
Dynamic visualizations in chemistry courses -- Explanatory models for the research & development of chemistry visualizations -- Designing and implementing effective animations and simulations for chemistry learning -- Linking animation design and usage to learning theories and teaching methods -- Insights from using PhET's design principles for interactive chemistry simulations -- Animation or simulation: investigating the importance of interactivity for learning solubility equilibria -- Virtual worlds and their uses in chemical education -- Using virtual worlds in the general chemistry classroom -- How a qualitative study with chemistry instructors informed atomic level animation design -- Use of an interactive computer-simulated experiment to enhance students' mental models of hydrogen bonding phenomena -- Making the unseen seen: integrating 3D molecular visualizations in elementary, high school, and higher education -- The effect of student-constructed animations versus storyboards on students' mental rotation ability, equilibrium content knowledge, and attitudes -- How does the order of viewing two computer animations of the same oxidation-reduction reaction affect students' particulate-level explanations? -- The future of computer simulations designed for classroom instruction -- Designing analogy-based simulations to teach abstractions -- Teaching tools for organic and bio-organic chemistry -- Using visualizations of the science behind climate change to change the climate of science teaching.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Chemistry -- Study and teaching -- Simulation methods -- Congresses; Electronic books