Pedagogic roles of animations and simulations in chemistry courses / Jerry P. Suits, editor, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, Michael J. Sanger, editor, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee ; sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education
Published
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACS, viewed Sept. 25, 2013)
