Course Identification

Title:

Chemistry module: research laboratory workshop

Code:

20226212

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Ron Blonder

TA's:

Dr. Leah Javitt, Sreedhara Madhenahalli Bhyrappa, Dr. Ilia Korobko, Pragati Prasad, Dr. Ohad Suss, Lev Khmelnitsky

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2022

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

N/A

First Lecture:

20/07/2022

End date:

03/08/2022

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Laboratory; Obligatory; Regular; 2.00 points

Comments

1st year

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

10

Other:

For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

50%

Seminar:

10%

Final:

40%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

40

Syllabus

The course will focus on conducting an educational project that introduces either an innovative chemistry topic in class or an innovative teaching approach. The students will evaluate the educational project.

To design and conduct the educational project, the course will introduce:
- Selected topics in chemistry.
- Guided reading of research papers.
- Different approaches for innovative teaching interventions in class.
- Development of a teaching project based on the above sections.
- Introduction to assessment and evaluation in science education.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

Describe the nature of scientists work
Describe the results of their lab study
Build a scientific presentation of the study
Present the content of the research in which the participated

Reading List

As provided by the guide in the research laboratory

Website

N/A