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How can drawing concept maps improve students' understanding of intermolecular forces?
Žarić, Kornelia ; Sikošek, Darinka
In the framework of a national project "Development of Science Competences" carried out by the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from the University of Maribor in Slovenia, teaching ...strategies, methods and techniques have been designed to develop science competences in order to raise scientific literacy among students. Chemistry as a scientific discipline is in most cases considered as abstract, its topics are often very difficult to learn and understand. Depending on the complexity of certain chemistry content, we note that students often have difficulty finding the right learning approach. There is also a lack of cross-curricular integration in class. Students therefore cannot directly connect their existing knowledge and new information from various fields. In order to achieve that, we designed teaching materials based on creating concept maps while reading a thematic chemical text on "Intermolecular forces" in English language, which is the first foreign language for Slovenian students. After obtaining new information the main objective of the next lesson, which took place in a computer room, was to create hierarchical network of concepts based on the nature of their interrelationships by using appropriate computer software for drawing concept maps. Our main aim was to encourage students' logical thinking by structuring the data as well as to develop their skills in English and expand their treasury of chemical concepts in a foreign language. In order to achieve interdisciplinary approach, we connected chemistry with English language and computer science. Below we present that particular teaching strategy in detail and some of the preliminary results, as the teaching material is still in the process of testing.
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