Schmitt-Sody B, Kometz A (2012)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2012
Publisher: Divisione Didattica della Società Chimica Italiana
Book Volume: 34
Pages Range: 336-338
Journal Issue: 3, speciale
URI: https://www.soc.chim.it/sites/default/files/users/div_didattica/PDF/2012-3.pdf#page=348
Open Access Link: https://www.soc.chim.it/sites/default/files/users/div_didattica/PDF/2012-3.pdf#page=348
In Germany extra-curricular student labs increase student interest in a subject area by providing independent and hands-on experiments and are an important innovation in education. The student lab at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg is called NESSI-Lab and focuses on chemistry. NESSI-Lab offers school classes from first to sixth grade a one day experience in chemistry, with age-appropriate experiments about fire, water, air, and earth. The feedback received from participating students and teachers was very good and resulted in an extension to another target group: children with hearing loss and learning disabilities. The frequently modified cognitive, linguistic, motor, and social development of hearing-impaired children and children with learning disabilities requires existing experiments to be adjusted, as well as their instructions and NESSI-Lab schedule. A pilot study was conducted to adopt changes to the Lab to accommodate the restraints mentioned above. The understanding and learning gains have been examined by interviews with 25 hearing-impaired children aged between 8 and 10 years. The results of a survey of special education teachers about experiments in special education schools, the adapted NESSI-Lab concept, and first results of an interview study about understanding and learning gains of children with hearing loss shall be presented. (Orig.).
APA:
Schmitt-Sody, B., & Kometz, A. (2012). New methods to teach chemistry to children with special needs in student labs. La Chimica nella scuola , 34(3, speciale), 336-338.
MLA:
Schmitt-Sody, Barbara, and Andreas Kometz. "New methods to teach chemistry to children with special needs in student labs." La Chimica nella scuola 34.3, speciale (2012): 336-338.
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