BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF CHEMISTRY
Essential chemistry content is explored through labs, activities, and readings in a context that is topical, meaningful, and accessible for high school students.
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Lab-Aids is the exclusive publisher for NAC, an acronym for A Natural Approach To Chemistry written by Dr. Tom Hsu & Dr. Manos Chaniotakis who have a deep understanding of both learning and science. Lab-Aids partners with NAC to publish digital and print materials and produce program equipment.
Designed Around the 5-E Instructional Model
Learning does not take place all at once, but occurs in stages that are part of a learning cycle. The learning experience is shaped through reflective and cognitive processes until it leads to real and retained learning.
The 5-E model is proven, well-used, and successful curriculum design philosophy that has been used in more than 230,000 lesson plans.
The five steps are called Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate.
ENGAGE
The first step in learning occurs when the student engages with the content. Each chapter of A Natural Approach to Chemistry begins with a short chapter reading - designed to engage the student.
EXPLORE
Engagement only lasts a short time and the exploration phase of a lesson provides common, concrete experiences that students can discuss and share as they dig-in to a new concept.
EXPLAIN
The very act of explaining something to someone else is a crucial, and often necessary part of learning. A Natural Approach to Chemistry provides opportunities for students to form and express explanations for real observations they make.
EXTEND
Extension broadens and deepens student experiences with the new idea by applying it or identifying it in more and different applications, contexts, or experiences.
- Extend ideas to more contexts, skills and applications
- Provide multiple and meaningful ties for recall and use
- Deepen and broaden understanding
EVALUATE
Students use new knowledge or skills to make a decision or compare one or more options. We believe the practical value in knowing chemistry is that the knowledge can be used to evaluate situations and make rational decisions based on knowledge and data rather than on marketing propaganda or less reliable information.
- Access gain in knowledge and skills
- Use new information and skills to make critically evaluate alternatives
A Quick Look at A Natural Approach to Chemistry
It All Works Together
A coordinated approach with a comprehensive textbook, 58 laboratory investigations, a sophisticated data collection and probe system, formative and summative assessments and and extensive teacher's guide provide a complete teaching-learning system.
Online Portal
The online Portal for A Natural Approach to Chemistry is available for both Students and Teachers and includes interactive text, access to the Student Book, Lab Investigations Manual, Teacher's Edition, instructional videos, pacing guides, podcasts, slide presentations, and skill sheets.
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