Working group 3 – Chemistry Education (Universities, Schools, Nursery Schools) #

Status Quo

Teaching materials online: Characteristics of a chemical reaction in experiments, Lithium to become more important than oil and gas, Teacher training: Renewable energy, From the Big Bang to radiation protection

DEGINTU: Access via the "Chemical education" website

Collaboration with the Chemical Education Division.

Contributions to the annual meeting of the Chemical Education Division.

1. Regensburg with an experimental lecture, "Characteristics of a chemical reaction in experiments", from the From Practice for Practice series
2. Erlangen with a symposium, "Experiencing Chemistry through the Ammonia Symposium: A chemical equilibrium as a lever for global nutrition and decarbonisation"
3. Poster, "Senior Experts and Chemical Education Divisions: Together for Chemistry"

Brochure “Chemistry Experiments that Spark”, a working group project for the 20th anniversary of the SEC Division

Objectives

• Generate further teaching materials
• Update and maintain the list of speakers and topics
• Participate in the annual meeting of the Chemical Education Division every two years
• Early years settings: Training and materials for SEC members to support children with experiments
• Continuously recruit new members

Proposed projects

1. Develop teaching materials based on online lectures:
   1.1. Runge lecture, developing teaching materials on chromatography from it
   1.2. Teaching materials on “Salts and ionic bonding” - Experimental learning through stations [Call for contributions published in the newsletter - Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Barke is providing materials]
2. Initiate a nitrous oxide lecture for schools (Faszination Chemie already has an article by Karin J. Schmitz, "What exactly is nitrous oxide?")
3. Make DEGINTU accessible to universities in English
4. Survey on “Reasons why today's graduates choose to study chemistry”, idea from Hans-Günther Schmalz
5. Participation in the 2026 annual meeting of the Chemical Education Division 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 that Spark”. Hans-Günther Schmalz / Petra Schultheiß-Reimann to submit a proposal (submit abstract by 30 June at the latest)
6. Participation in the 2027 annual meeting of the Chemical Education Division:
   6.1. Symposium - WHAT?
   6.2. Poster: Idea - possibly results of the survey “Reasons why today's graduates choose to study chemistry”

Working group members

Chair: 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 meeting of the Chemical Education Division

Hans-Günther Schmalz, Petra Schultheiß-Reimann, other SEC members depending on the project

DEGINTU

Horst Klemeyer, Alfred Krause, other SEC members sought

Early years settings

Astrid Dorfer, Ursula Hoeppener-Kamar, Wolfgang Kortmann

Collaboration with GDCh Divisions

Chemical Education Division

Specific collaboration with individual Division members: e.g. with Prof. Dr. Markus Prechtel, Chemistry Education, TU Darmstadt (sustainability topic)