Creative Chemists: Strategies for Teaching and Learning
Simon Rees, University of Durham, UK
&
Douglas Newton, University of Durham, UK
'Creative Chemists' is a volume in the Advances in Chemistry Education book series published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Outlines contents
Chapter 1. Creative Teaching and Creative Students
[This chapter can be downloaded as free sample at https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-511-0]
- 1.1 Creative Thinking
- 1.2 Being Creative in Chemistry
- 1.3 Creative Teaching in Chemistry
- 1.4 Students Thinking Creatively in Chemistry
- 1.5 Some Challenges
Chapter 2. Creative Thinking
- 2.1 Chemical Thinking
- 2.2 Divergent Thinking
- 2.3 Convergent Thinking
- 2.4 Associative Thinking
- 2.5 Lateral Thinking
- 2.6 Strategies to Promote Creative Thinking
- 2.7 Some Characteristics of the Creative Teacher
- 2.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3. Multisensory Learning
- 3.1 Teaching with Creativity
- 3.2 Engaging All the Senses for Learning
- 3.3 Olfactory Learning 38 Key Questions
- 3.4 Gustatory Learning
- 3.5 Haptic Learning
- 3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4. Cultural Chemistry
- 4.1 Experiential Learning
- 4.2 Cultural Chemistry in the Classroom
- 4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5. Constructing and Representing Understandings in
Chemistry
- 5.1 Creative Thinking and the Periodic Table
- 5.2 Multiple Representations
- 5.3 Visual Literacy and Spatial Ability
- 5.4 Visualisations
- 5.5 Role Play Representations
- 5.6 Analogies and Metaphors
- 5.7 Conclusion
Chapter 6. Storytelling
- 6.1 Storytelling in Science Teaching
- 6.2 Unexpected Change
- 6.3 Curiosity
- 6.4 Constructing Models of the World
- 6.5 Detail
- 6.6 Character
- 6.7 Story Stimuli
- 6.8 An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
- 6.9 Fictional Stories
- 6.10 Our Own Stories
- 6.11 Conclusion
Chapter 7. Performance and Drama
- 7.1 Drama in Science
- 7.2 Performance with a Pedagogical Purpose 95
- 7.3 Drama and the Human Element of Chemistry
- 7.4 Scientific Debate
- 7.5 Drama Games
- 7.6 Conclusion
Chapter 8. Practical Chemistry
- 8.1 Types of Practical Chemistry Instruction
- 8.2 Escape Rooms
- 8.3 Microscale Chemistry
- 8.4 Inquiry Based Learning
- 8.5 Problem Based Learning
- 8.6 Virtual Experimentation
- 8.7 Science Technicians
- 8.8 Summary
Chapter 9: The Language of Chemistry
- 9.1 Scientific Language
- 9.2 The Significance of Language in Chemistry
- 9.3 Scientific Literacy
- 9.4 Lexical Quality Hypothesis
- 9.5 Word Classification
- 9.6 Linguistic Demand in Multiple Dimensions
- 9.7 Conclusion
Chapter 10. Assessing Creativity
- 10.1 Assessing, Recognising, or Evaluating Creative Thinking?
- 10.2 Evaluating Creative Teaching in Chemistry
- 10.3 The Formative Evaluation of Chemistry Students' Creative Thinking
- 10.4 The Summative Evaluation of Chemistry Students' Creative Thinking
- 10.5 Conclusion
Chapter 11. Why Creativity Matters
11.1 The Chemistry Teacher's Role
