Name: Helping students overcome threshold concepts in chemistry by emphasising scale
Start: 2025-07-21T08:30:00-0600
End: 2025-07-21T10:15:00-0600

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Monday July 21, 2025 8:30am - 10:15am MDT

Metals Hall (Green Center)

Teaching chemistry in scale order helps to identify and overcome student misconceptions. Examples of our action research project: bonding and structure, rates of reaction, biochemistry and practical work.

Speakers

Zoe Thorn

Teacher of Chemistry, Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge UK

Zoe has been a teacher in the UK since 2000 and has taught chemistry and science to students ages 11 - 18 but has focused on 16 - 18 in recent years.

Simon Colebrooke

Chemistry Teacher, Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK

After several years research using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Simon began teaching chemistry in 2005. He has taught chemistry (16-19 year old students) with colleague Zoe for 15 years, in the UK. They have recently published several articles together focused on helping... Read More →

Monday July 21, 2025 8:30am - 10:15am MDT
Metals Hall (Green Center)

Innovative Pedagogy from Current Chemical Education Research

ChemEd 2025

Zoe Thorn

Simon Colebrooke

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ChemEd 2025

Zoe Thorn

Simon Colebrooke

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