123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area New Trends in Chemistry Education
Room No. Room 204
Time THU 10:10-10:30
Code EDU.O-4
Subject Chemistry Experiment Class in High School
Authors Jinho Oh
Chemistry & Biology, Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Korea
Abstract How can high school students study chemistry fun? Chemistry can be fun to learn through chemistry experimental activities. However, The chemistry contents in high school are not easy learned through chemistry experimental activities. The reason is in the limits of chemical experiment environment and the contents of chemistry experiment class. In high school chemistry experiment subject faces to many limitations, not only due to limitations on the experimental space or the experimental class time, but also due to the various risks associated with the experimental activities. It also requires to develope the contents of chemical experiment class in high school. Despite these limitations, students should be encouraged to learn chemistry through experimental activities in high school. we try to educate through not only experimental activities by introducing project-oriented experimental activity class in fundamental organic chemistry but also General Chemistry Lab 1 and General chemistry Lab 2 which are accelerated deepening courses at Korea Science Academy of KAIST. In this presentation, we discuss how to teach chemistry through experimental activities in high school.
E-mail jinhooh@kaist.ac.kr