Orinon wrote:But would you teach that to a bunch of teenagers?
Hell yeah! Why should you not prepare them for college chemistry where they do expect atoms to be drawn as such?
Orinon wrote:If your not happy, bite me
Ignoring that mispelling, just leave me time to cook fava beans.
Orinon wrote:Abigale doesn't want to teach them the exact shape and structure. She wants to teach them enough to not completely bomb out of any exams. And (considering my school exams) this involved learning basic atomic stucture, electron, proton and neutron numbers, electron shell configurations and how molecules bind together.
Also, the other one is easier to remember
Screw easier things to remember. They can just use chunking and elaborative rehearsal to ensure things will stick in their memories. Oh wait, schools never actually teach people how to learn, or else they would know about those things from elementary school. I forgot how education has not advanced in two hundred years for those following the Prussian-educational-model or worse, a few thousand years for those following educational models based upon Confucius's ideas. I pity anybody in any Earth-based education.
Since I forgot to do it for my last post, here it is.