Teaching Strategies

Topic

Strategy Type

Topic	Strategy	Title	Description
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Qualitative Concept Focus	Teach Qualitative Cocepts First	Get students to have a qualitative understanding before they apply it. Teach the topic qualitatively and then they can realise that they can do calculations with it. Q and K would come later, after they have the qualitative understanding.
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Link to Other Topics	Link to Related Topics	Interconnect equilibrium with other topics – acid-base, reaction rates etc. You can introduce part of the topic of weak and strong acids and then do a bit of equilibrium, just enough to make sense of it.
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Link to Other Topics	Relate to other Subjects/Courses	Compare the material to what they might be learning in physics. For example, in Le Chatelier’s principle, a phrase like ‘counteract the change’ is similar to Lens’s Law in physics for electromagnetic induction. So maybe if students have a better grip of that they can see similarities there. It’s... more
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Content Structure Link to Other Topics	Introduce Equilibrium in Previous Topics	Start to flag the concept of equilibrium early when teaching other topics, saying this is the concept of equilibrium we’ve got to come to later. So students start to understand how it’s all interlinked, rather than it being a lone, odd concept?
Physical Chemistry Equilibrium	Representations Demonstration and Simulation Technology Online and e-Resources	YouTube Demonstrations	Use YouTube demonstrations which demonstrate well (gases etc) but would be difficult to do the real demonstration in a lecture theatre. Link to YouTube Video: Le Chatelier's Principle

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