What is CoolScience! Chemistry?
CoolScience! Chemistry is a collection of interactive simulations in Chemistry to help promote scientific inquiry in learners at the secondary level. It features a a comprehensive array of interactive capabilities that help the educator be a champion of inquiry in the classroom by promoting up to Level 4 inquiry!

A key feature is the Virtual Laboratory Environment that allows the teacher / student to choose between pre-designed experiments or to modify and customise their own investigations for practically all areas cover in this topic — its Scientific Inquiry at its finest!

 KEY BENEFITS

•Saves the educator hours to prepare colorful and engaging teaching aids.

•Provides adequate pre-practical experiences to help the learner understand key concepts and predict the results when during the actual practical experience.
•Permits the learner to manipulate different variables and examine the consequences of their actions without compromising their safety. •Illustrates difficult concepts that cannot otherwise be demonstrated in the laboratory.
•Promotes level 2 to 4 scientific inquiry (broadly described by National Research Council, 2000) and critical thinking through simulations
•The product is also completed with worksheets to challenge the learners to explain scientific phenomena through simulations, thus activating various thinking habits in the process of learning and reinforces understanding.
 

ITS APPLICATIONS
As a ready-to-use teaching aid -- to navigate through the ready-developed courseware and leverage on the inquiry-based content framing roadmap and the animations which help the learners understand complex concepts in science and at the same time saving the teacher many hours of preparation. As a self-study guide for students, using COOLABS! a CoolScience! proprietary virtual laboratory that allows the student to choose between pre-set experiments or to customise his own investigations using the virtual lab-bench. As a resource for posing challenges to students of different abilities. As a tool for lesson customization --- to choose from the simulation library included in this learning package only the relevant simulations to compliment his current repertoire of teaching aids.