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Chimica nella Scuola

Percorsi didattici per la Scuola primaria

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): Chimica nella Scuola n.2 2024

Alla scoperta dell’acqua! Unità didattica interdisciplinare realizzata in modalità laboratoriale

Submitted
17 May 2024
Published
20-05-2024

Abstract

This paper reports an interdisciplinary teaching unit design for a 4th grade of a primary school and tested in the outskirt of Bologna aimed to investigate three of the properties of water (surface tension, capillarity, and solvent power) by using the “hands-on, minds-on” approach of the 5Es instructional model. The three properties of water were investigated at both macro and sub-micro level. The experiments were designed to be performed autonomously by the students; two atomic theories were explored with multimedial teaching material to deepen the peculiar behavior of water molecule.

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