ChemOL
ChemOL
The ChemOL school laboratory for primary school classes
20 years Chemol
The ChemOL school laboratory was established in 2002 and pursues three basic objectives:
- To give primary school pupils their first experience of chemistry. Special emphasis is placed on ensuring that the experiments and the associated knowledge meet the requirements of primary school pupils. They learn scientific working techniques and basic concepts and thus expand their knowledge in a fun way. As a rule, a class spends a whole morning in the laboratory wearing lab coats and safety goggles.
- Teachers should be enabled to cover the somewhat neglected part of science lessons.
- ChemOL is part of the curriculum for students on the science teaching courses at the University of Oldenburg; they are involved in the supervision and thus gain experience in working with children during the experiments.
As part of the ChemOL training courses, teachers are introduced to the basic technical concepts, familiarized with suitable experiments for the classroom and shown ways of carrying out the ChemOL experiments with a class.
Further general information on ChemOL can be found here
Air
Pupils' laboratory "Air" for year 1/2
In this learning programme, children playfully prove in simple chemical experiments that air is a mixture of substances. Through displacement and mass determination, we prevent the common misconception that air is "nothing". The children can also explore how the volume of air changes when the temperature changes. They also realise that warm air rises, so that the natural phenomenon of wind can be explained (KC: end of the 2nd school year).
Our primary school courses are supervised by our staff in collaboration with students from the Sachunterricht department.
If you are interested, please contact:
Didaktik der Chemie
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg
Email: c uol.de
Water & salt
Pupils' laboratory "Water & Salt" for grades 2-4
In this course, pupils learn about the three different physical states of water in a fun way (KC: end of 4th grade). To this end, the children experiment with the transitions of melting, solidification, evaporation and condensation and also learn about the transition of resublimation using the example of hoar frost.
In addition, pupils explore what happens when (cooking) salt is added to water and how dissolving common salt changes the properties of water.
Our primary school courses are supervised by our staff in collaboration with students from the Sachunterricht department.
If you are interested, please contact:
Didaktik der Chemie
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg
Email: c uol.de
Carbon dioxide
Pupils' laboratory "Carbon dioxide" for grades 2-4
In this programme, pupils produce carbon dioxide in various ways and identify it (KC: end of 4th school year). They learn in a playful way that not every gas is air by comparing air and carbon dioxide. The children also investigate the solubility of carbon dioxide in water.
Our primary school courses are supervised by our staff in collaboration with students from the Sachunterricht department.
If you are interested, please contact:
Didaktik der Chemie
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg
Email: c uol.de
Fire
Pupils' laboratory "Fire" for grades 3/4
This course teaches the safe use of matches in the form of a match driving licence. The pupils then experiment with the components of a candle and answer the question of what conditions a fire needs to burn (fire triangle). Building on this, fire prevention and firefighting measures are also taught (KC: end of the 4th school year).
Our primary school courses are supervised by our staff in collaboration with students from the Sachunterricht department.
If you are interested, please contact:
Didaktik der Chemie
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, 26129 Oldenburg
Email: c uol.de
