122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Chemistry Education for the Science Gifted Students
Room No. Room 315
Time FRI 14:30-:
Code EDU2-1
Subject Korea Science Academy Organic chemistry class for the scientific gifted students
Authors Jinho Oh
Chemistry & Biology, Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Korea
Abstract Organic chemistry is one of the chemistry enrichment courses of the gifted school. At the Korea Science Academy, there are chemistry enrichment courses such as fundamentals of organic chemistry, introduction to nanochemistry, fundamentals of analytical chemistry, chemistry and energy, and introduction to spectroscopy. Students with interests and talents in the chemistry field choose to study these enrichment courses. These chemistry curriculum provides knowledge at university level to students interested in chemistry. And also it provides the necessary deepening knowledge in the second year R&E research activities and third year graduation research activities. Organic chemistry classes provide team discussion to help students understand the reactivity of organic compounds by functional groups while solving the problems given to the groups together. Students draw on organic reaction mechanisms to understand the structure and reactivity of organic compounds. Students do an organic synthesis team project that they are interested in and conduct organic synthesis project activities as a semester project. In this presentation, I will share the process of studying organic chemistry through group activities.
E-mail jinhooh@kaist.ac.kr