Comments on: GUEST POST: On Chemistry, Movies and Making Science Entertaining https://scriptphd.com/from-the-lab/2010/01/05/guest-post-on-chemistry-movies-and-making-science-entertaining/ Elemental expertise. Flawless plots. Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 By: (Bio)Chemistry in the Movies | Genetics News https://scriptphd.com/from-the-lab/2010/01/05/guest-post-on-chemistry-movies-and-making-science-entertaining/#comment-160 <![CDATA[(Bio)Chemistry in the Movies | Genetics News]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:52:18 +0000 https://scriptphd.com/?p=1395#comment-160 <![CDATA[[...] At ScriptPhD Doug Fowler interviews University of Nebraska chemistry professor Mark Griep and artist Marjorie Mikasen, husband and wife co-authors of ReAction!: Chemistry in the Movies. When Mark taught General Chemistry for the first time, he gave the students a 600-word writing assignment. They were supposed to write about the chemistry in a recent newspaper or news magazine. Such an exercise promotes deep learning because the student has to process the issues and decide what is important. Mark was surprised that only 60% of the students completed the assignment and disappointed that some of them wrote about topics such as vaccines, supernovas, etc. without mentioning their chemical aspects. [...]  The next two times Mark taught General Chemistry, he projected two of these movies and had the students write about one of them. It was a great success; 95% of the students completed the assignment and the quality of writing was vastly superior. [...]]]> <![CDATA[

[…] At ScriptPhD Doug Fowler interviews University of Nebraska chemistry professor Mark Griep and artist Marjorie Mikasen, husband and wife co-authors of ReAction!: Chemistry in the Movies. When Mark taught General Chemistry for the first time, he gave the students a 600-word writing assignment. They were supposed to write about the chemistry in a recent newspaper or news magazine. Such an exercise promotes deep learning because the student has to process the issues and decide what is important. Mark was surprised that only 60% of the students completed the assignment and disappointed that some of them wrote about topics such as vaccines, supernovas, etc. without mentioning their chemical aspects. […]  The next two times Mark taught General Chemistry, he projected two of these movies and had the students write about one of them. It was a great success; 95% of the students completed the assignment and the quality of writing was vastly superior. […]

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