Chemistry

The key objective of these modules is to improve the quality of secondary chemistry education through in-service teacher training. The training targets to address the gaps in subject knowledge and teacher’s pedagogical skills to effectively deliver chemistry instruction at secondary education curriculum. The role of the teacher in Puntland is to assist students meet their expectations at school level. Modern teachers are expected to preserve national values and ensure that the younger generations attain their educational aims as independent citizens.
The quality of a good chemistry teacher should include: comprehension of subject matter, as a key ingredient, which can be made when teachers command the fundamental concepts and basic principles of chemistry that will help them apply effective teaching/learning in classrooms. In addition to proficiency of chemical knowledge, a chemistry teacher should have basic knowledge in chemistry related fields like mathematics, technology, philosophy, psychology as well as other areas such as language, reading and writing skills, which are determinants of learning and understanding.
Course Features
- Lectures 96
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
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Introduction to the Course
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Model 1: Methodology
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Module 2: Laboratory Management and Use of Equipment
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Module 3: The Periodic Table
- Introductions to the periodic table
- The structure of the periodic table
- Metals and non-metals
- Blocks of elements in the periodic table
- The position of hydrogen in the periodic table
- Electron arrangement and the Periodic Table
- Periodicity
- Atomic radius
- Ionic radii
- Ionization energy
- Properties from structure and Bonding
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Module 4: chemical formula and equation and mole concepts
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Module 5: Bonding and structure
- Introduction to chemical bonding
- The octet rule
- Types of bonding
- Ionic (electrovalent) bonding
- Covalent bonding
- Metallic bonding
- Electronegativity, polarity and polarization
- Polarization in ionic compounds
- Molecular orbital
- Shapes of simple molecules
- Molecules with bonded pairs
- Molecules with lone pairs
- Intermolecular forces
- Properties of ionic compounds
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Module 6: Organic chemistry
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Module 7: Enthalpy changes
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Module 8: Practical Exercises
- Pure substances and mixtures
- Making iron sulphide
- Separating sand from salt
- Making Precipitate
- Hard and Soft Water
- Comparing the hardness of different samples of water
- Acids and Bases
- Making Solutions and Diluting Acids
- Neutralization using titration
- Metals and Acids
- Determining the formula of Magnesium Oxide
- The formation of the Marble Chip
- Preparation of gases Carbon dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen
- Concentration and Rate of Reaction
- Reactivity of metals
- Electrolysis
- polarity of water
- Preparing a salt from an acid and a carbonate
- Ways of using limestone
- FERMENTATION (Organic: Alcohols)
- Displacement Reaction
- Hydrogen test (Gases)
- Shape of a liquid (Liquids)
- Making iron sulfide
- Metal/Acid Reactions Experiment
- Laboratory Preparation of Hydrogen