Reviews of Chemical Reactivity for School Science Teachers

该项目的目的是收集和 发表至少12篇综述， 无机化学中最重要的元素及其 简单的化合物，无论是在纯态和水溶液中。 这些评论大部分将发表在《日刊》上 化学教育。 它们将在以后的再版中收集 为教师量身定做。 这些审查是以下列机构制定的课程为蓝本的： W. C. Bray和W. M.拉蒂默，《普通化学教程》。 审查的一般特点包括： 日常材料的化学成分，而不是深奥的 化合物;包括实验室练习和演示 根据建议的使用水平进行分级;安全性和 废物处理方法;以及不再强调理论性很强的 与定性模型相比。 结合该项目，设立了一个政策小组， 来自高等教育机构和 正在组建中学。 第二组， 反应网络，将由高素质的二级 学校化学教师谁将担任写作小组和 提供有关专业审查计划的演示文稿 会议. 该项目将解决以下方面的一个严重缺陷： 学前化学教育，提供的材料侧重于 描述性化学，这是当前文本中很大程度上被忽视的领域。 第二，这将有助于修改目前的做法， 实验室工作，因为实验室活动将成为 材料的核心特征，并将涉及解决方案 而不是说明性的表现 实验

The purpose of this project is the collection and publication of at least twelve reviews covering the descriptive inorganic chemistry of the most important elements and their simple compounds, both in the pure state and in aqueous solution. The reviews, for the most part, will be published in the Journal of Chemical Education. They will later be collected in reprint volumes for teachers. The reviews are being modeled on the curriculum developed by W. C. Bray and W. M. Latimer, "A Course in General Chemistry". The general characteristics of the reviews include: coverage of the chemistry of everyday materials rather than esoteric compounds; inclusion of laboratory exercises and demonstrations graded as to suggested usage level; description of safety and waste disposal methods; and de-emphasis of heavily theoretical models in comparison with qualitative models. In conjunction with the project, a Policy Group, consisting of chemical educators from both higher education institutions and secondary schools is being formed. A second group, the Reactivity Network, will consist of highly qualified secondary school chemistry teachers who will serve on writing teams and give presentations about the review program at professional meetings. This project will address a serious shortcoming in precollege chemical education by providing materials focused on descriptive chemistry, an area largely ignored in current texts. Secondly, it will help to modify the present approach to laboratory work in that the laboratory activities will become the central feature of the materials, and will involve the solution of problems rather than the performance of illustrative experiments.