Chemistry doesn't just happen in test tubes

• Autores: Peter Borrows
• Localización: School Science Review, ISSN 0036-6811, Vol. 100, Nº. 372, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Teaching science through everyday issues), págs. 33-40
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many teachers don’t notice, or don’t understand, the chemistry going on in and around their homes and hence don’t point it out to their students. Thus they miss out on an important motivating experience. This article gives a few random examples, most of them well within the understanding of students at key stages 3 and 4 (age 11–16). From fatbergs to hard water, from church gargoyles to lightning conductors, from bricks to rubbish bins, from hair treatments to autumn leaves, from kerbstones to street lights – and a source of methanal you didn’t know about.