Teaching strategies for the promotion of chemistry in secondary and high school education

Abstract

The noticeable decrease of the number of high school chemistry students suggests the need of developing strategies in order to achieve the levels of the past decade. In this work, some tools, applicable from the first educative levels to secondary and high school, are proposed. These strategies include the design of fun laboratory experiments for 6-7 year children, the creation of a peculiar team of researchers involved in the problems proposed to students, the availability of solved problems collections or taking part in external competitions, as the Chemistry Olympiad.