Macroscopic Analogies

Students come in, like all of us, trying to apply macroscopic analogies to everything – (the billiard balls colliding and similar things) and using them as models for atoms. Try to get across that it's a simple analogy but it's not as simple as that in reality. I guess go back a step and try and show that everything is really just a form of energy.

Topic:

  • General Chemistry
  • Nature of Matter

Strategy:

  • Representations
  • Analogies and Metaphors
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