Animations, organic chemistry and chemistry networks

By 2011-03-01T00:00:00

Footprints science animations

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Animations

There are some interesting sample animations on this site, developed for teachers to use in Key Stage 3 and GCSE science.

The chemistry samples include drag and drop animations on the rock cycle and fractional distillation of crude oil as well as some very clear explanatory animations on topics such as simple distillation and chromatography.

The full product is available to purchase, and consists of the animations arranged on Powerpoint slides so that they can easily be ordered to suit individual lessons and schemes of work.

Typically only a few seconds long and no substitute for more formal teaching, the clear, colourful animations may well be useful as an aid to student visualization of these ideas.

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