CHEMISTRY MINOR PROGRAMS: TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

ТOWARD THE MODERNIZATION OF PEDAGOGY: A CRITICAL REVIEW

Pure and applied pedagogy is a science of education which prepares the young generations for life and society. Since Jan Comenius it has constantly being developed and improved. Its modern appeal is due to the significant influence of the latest methodological...

HOW TO DEVELOP PUPILS’ COGNITIVE INTEREST ON THE BASIS OF THE SUBJECT „MAN & NATURE: STRUCTURE AND LIFE PROCESSES OF ORGANISMS“: IN-SERVICE TRAINING OF TEACHERS WITHOUT BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION. II

The aim of this study was to design learning and cognitive tasks which would be used for developing cognitive interests of the students to their primary biological education. The teachers trained are without a special biological education. The school subject...

REMARKS ON THE SCHOOL CHEMISTRY IN BULGARIA: CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM

The mass action law belongs to the chemical thermodynamics. The chemical reactions run in the direction in which the free energy of the chemical systems decreases. When the free energy reach its minimum value (at given conditions), then the chemical equilibriu...

TEACHING AIDS IN PRESENTING THE TOPIC OF „THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS BY DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV“ AT THE PRIMARY SCHOOL

This paper presents the theoretical basis, construction process, practical usage of teaching aids – a whiteboard with magnets and funny text, as well as the process of the lesson realization – in presenting the topic of Periodic Table of Elements (PTE) by D. I...

POSSIBILITIES FOR SKILLS FORMING IN BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION

Alstract. Skills formation in students is related to building of certain personal qualities that require placemnet of the problem in the domain of comprehension. The notions <i>skill and comprehension</i> are presented both separately and in their integrative...

SIMULATION OF THE FATTY ACID SYNTHASE COMPLEX MECHANISM OF ACTION

One of the most complicated subjects to our students is the fatty acid synthase (FAS) complex. The objective of this article is to make the lecture of fatty acid synthesis enjoyable and understandable through mimicking the action of the fatty acid synthase co...

TODOR JONCHEV (1859–1940) AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE BULGARIAN CHEMICAL LITERATURE

This article studies Todor Jonchev’s contribution to the Bulgarian chemical literature. His books and manuals in Chemistry and Chemistry teaching are listed and commented. His life and social activities are discussed as well.

FORMING OF CONTENT OF DIFFERENTIAL TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY IN SCHOOL EDUCATION OF UKRAINE

The article grounds historical and didactical development of method of differential teaching of chemistry in secondary education establishments of Ukraine which is accompanied by serious qualitative changes in respect to forming of content of education and cho...

STUDY OF RADICAL-SCAVENGING ACTIVITY

The radical-scavenging ability of a substance largely determines its antioxidant activity, but the two terms are not equivalent. The quantum-chemical approach is a possible technique of exploring this action. The article addresses the main mechanisms of the re...

PROFESSOR JOHN WHITE WEBSTER, SCIENCE EDUCATOR AND CONVICTED MURDERER

Professor John White Webster (1793-1850) was a nineteenth century American science educator. He was the author of several well regarded university textbooks in chemistry and a geological text on the island of St Michael in the Azores. He had a first degree in...