Embedded between France, Germany and Belgium, Luxembourg has a strong culture for teaching
foreign languages. The students are intensively taught French, German and English at school.
Due to this intense learning of foreign languages, the curricula do not leave enough time for teaching
Sciences.
Students in Luxembourg are taught Sciences only during 3.3 years at an average of 3 lessons a week.
Compared to our neighbour countries, this is far not enough. Furthermore, our students are taught
Sciences at an age of 16 to 19 years. This is too late, considering that the psychological age for
discovering Sciences is at the age of about 12 years.
We have decided to develop and publish our own Chemistry books, as the German, French or
Belgian books do not fit to our programs and the age of our students.
These books are accompanied by (N)TIC: interactive CD-ROM and DVDs.
The interactive CD-ROMs contain additional exercises for training the stuff seen in class (i.e. chemical formulas, equations, stoechiometry). The DVDs contain film movies of the experiments
presented in the books. So every student has the possibility to watch again the experiments at home
and do some more training on the material he has to learn.
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More Chemistry Teaching Ideas
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| • | DNA Extraction from Kiwi Fruit (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMJHQC4VUE_0.html) |
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| • | How does Toothpast work? (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMC6RC4VUE_0.html) |
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| • | Teaching Science and Humanities (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMBXOC4VUE_0.html) |
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| • | ICT in Chemistry (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMTNY9RR1F_0.html) |
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| • | Web Chemistry: Sweeteners (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEM4P2ARR1F_0.html) |
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| • | The Shadow of the Flame (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMZ93ARR1F_0.html) |
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| • | Looking for Antioxidant Food (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEM3F4ARR1F_0.html) |
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| • | Discovering an Accessible Enzyme (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEM0O4ARR1F_0.html) |
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| • | Natural Antibiotics (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMOW4ARR1F_0.html) |
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| • | Some Simple Demonstrations in Classroom (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Science_on_Stage/SEMJFC8OY2F_0.html) |
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Online material
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| • | Movie downloads and exercises in French (http://www.al.lu/chemistry/) |
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| • | Flash animations in German (http://www.ltam.lu/chimie/home.htm) |
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| • | Animations, simulations, exercises in German and French (http://www.restena.lu/lhce/Chimie/index.html) |
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| • | Animations, documents, exercises in French (http://www.lgl.lu/LGL/Departements/chimie) |
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Download
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| • | Patricularities in Chemistry Teaching in Luxembourg PDF (http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/scienceonstage/LX_ Pacella_Teaching_Chemistry_Luxembourg.pdf) |
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