Status Quo
Teaching materials on the internet: Characteristics of the chemical reaction in the experiment, lithium to become more important than oil and gas in the future, teacher training: renewable energies, from the Big Bang to radiation protection
DEGINTU: access via the "Chemical education" website
Collaboration with the Division of chemical education.
Contributions submitted to the annual conference of the Division of chemical education.
- Regensburg with experimental lecture "Characteristics of the chemical reaction in the experiment" from the "From practice for practice" series
- Erlangen with symposium "ChemistryExperienced: Ammonia Symposium: A chemical equilibrium as a lever for global food security and decarbonisation"
- Poster "Senior Experts and Chemical Education Divisions: Together for chemistry"
Brochure “Chemistry experiments spark”, a project of the working group for the 20th anniversary of the SEC Division
Aims
- Generate further teaching materials
- Update and maintain the list of speakers and topics
- Participation in the annual conference of the Division of chemical education every two years
- Early-years education: training and materials for SEC members to support children during experiments
- Ensure a continuous supply of young talent
- SEC lecturer (provisional link)
Planned projects
- Generate teaching materials from Online lectures:
1.1. Runge lecture, develop teaching materials on chromatography from it
1.2. Teaching materials “Salts and ionic bonding” – experimental learning at stations [notice seeking contributors published in the newsletter – Prof. Dr Hans-Dieter Barke is providing materials] - Initiate a nitrous oxide lecture for schools (Faszination Chemie already contains an article by Karin J. Schmitz entitled "What actually is nitrous oxide?")
- Make DEGINTU accessible to universities in English
- Survey “Reasons why today’s graduates choose chemistry as their subject of study”, an idea by Hans-Günther Schmalz
- Participation in the 2026 annual conference of the Division of chemical education in Göttingen:
5.1. Experimental lecture by Horst Klemeyer and Alfred Krause (date/time: 24/09/2026 09:50–24/09/2026 10:45, lecture room: Lecture Theatre MN27 (Building K))
5.2. Poster: Presentation of the brochure “Chemistry experiments spark”; Hans-Günther Schmalz / Petra Schultheiß-Reimann will submit a proposal (submit abstract by 30 June at the latest) - Participation in the 2027 annual conference of the Division of chemical education:
6.1. Symposium – WHAT?
6.2. Poster: Idea – possibly results of the survey “Reasons why today’s graduates choose chemistry as their subject of study”
Members of the working group
Speakers: Petra Schultheiß-Reimann, Hans-Günther Schmalz
Eberhard Ehlers, Astrid Dorfer, Ursula Hoeppener-Kramar, Horst Klemeyer, Wolfgang Kortmann, Alfred Krause
Teaching materials (project-related):
Ursula Hoeppener-Kamar, Hans-Günther Schmalz, Petra Schultheiß-Reimann, other SEC members depending on the project
Participation in the annual conference of the Division of chemical education
Hans-Günther Schmalz, Petra Schultheiß-Reimann, other SEC members depending on the project
DEGINTU
Horst Klemeyer, Alfred Krause, further SEC members sought
Early-years education
Astrid Dorfer, Ursula Hoeppener-Kamar, Wolfgang Kortmann
Collaboration with GDCh Divisions
Division of chemical education
Special collaboration with individual Division members: e.g. with Prof. Dr Markus Prechtel, Chemistry Education at TU Darmstadt (topic: sustainability)
