JCE Online Journal of Chemical EducationDivision of Chemical Education, American Chemical SocietyAmerican Chemical Society
 | Subscriptions  | Software Orders  | Support  | Contributors  | Advertisers  | 

JCE Print
   Current Issue
 Previous Issues
 Supplements
 Search JCE Index

JCE Digital Library
   JCE DLib Catalog
   ChemInfo
 Data-Driven Exercises
 DigiDemos
 Featured Molecules
 LivTexts
 LrnCom
 QBank
 SymMath
 WebWare

JCE Software
   Latest Releases
 Software & Video
 Downloads
 Support

Only@JCE Online
   JCE Online Store
 JCE HS CLIC
 JCE Discussion Forums
   Biographical Snapshots
 ChemEd Resource Shelf
 Hal's Picks
 Project Chemlab
 Reviewed WWW Sites
 "Web-Ed" Articles

About JCE
   Features
 Publications
 Operations
 Outreach
 Contact Us



  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2008  > January  >
Chemistry for Everyone
A Bright Spark: Open Teaching of Science Using Faraday's Lectures on Candles
Mark Walker, Martin Gröger, and Kirsten Schlüter
Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 8- Chemie/Biologie, 57068 Siegen, Germany

Bernd Mosler
Rudolf-Steiner-Schule, 57072 Siegen, Germany

Cover
January 2008
Vol. 85 No. 1
p. 59
Abstract
As well as being a founding father of modern chemistry and physics Michael Faraday was also a skilled lecturer, able to explain scientific principles and ideas simply and concisely to nonscientific audiences. However science didactics today emphasizes the use of open and student-centered methods of teaching in which students find and develop explanations for scientific phenomena instead of the simply learning about them from lectures and demonstrations. We decided to adapt Faraday's famous lecture series "The Natural History of the Candle" so that some of the ideas and experiments he presented could be used in a student-centered setting, where students decide the meaning of what they see and do.
Supplement
A summary of the different experiments is available.
*
 Download
Contents
  JCE2008p0059W.pdf
 
JCE2008p0059W.zip
JCE2008p0059W.doc (Microsoft Word)
More Information
*
Citation
Walker, Mark; Gröger, Martin; Schlüter, Kirsten; Mosler, Bernd. J. Chem. Educ. 2008, 85, 59.
*
Keywords
Alkanes / Cycloalkanes; Constructivism; Elementary / Middle School Science; First-Year Undergraduate / General; General Public; Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Inquiry-Based / Discovery Learning; Laboratory Instruction; Learning Theories; Student-Centered Learning
*
History
Created:
Last Updated:
12/4/2007
12/12/2007
<< Previous Article Table of Contents Next Article >>
  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2008  > January  > Page 59


Subscriptions
 Subscription Info
 Order Forms

JCE HS CLIC

Our Secondary School editors work hard to distill all the JCE materials to produce a fraction of particular interest to high school teachers. We call it CLIC.
 JCE HS CLIC

Contributions Welcome
JCE welcomes your submission
 Contributors' Corner

Advertisers
In recent years we have worked hard to better match our advertisers with our readers. When shopping for chemistry education materials, visit our advertisers' WWW sites first.
 Recent Advertisers

Be An Ambassador
Take JCE along on your outreach missions. Copies of the Journal, guest access to JCE Online, our publications catalog, and more are available for your participants.
 Outreach with JCE

Comments to
jceonline@chem.wisc.edu		 Copyright © Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society.
All rights reserved.