La stéréochimie dynamique
An innovative audiovisual teaching method for chemistry developed at the Université de Montréal by Professor Henri Favre, _La stéréochimie dynamique_ (Dynamic Stereochemistry) was first and foremost a response to a pedagogical problem: how to make students see and understand molecular transformations in space and time, using a blackboard and two-dimensional plans on paper? “Visualizing these phenomena is all the more difficult”, says a brochure accompanying the film, “as they always consist of three elements: the three-dimensional structure of the molecule, its continuous motion, and simultaneous and concomitant energy variations”.
| Directors | Henri Favre, Henri Favre |
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Using simple models of molecules – made of wood or plastic – and with the help of a creative animation team, including the Centre audio-visuel de l'Université de Montréal, Professor Henri Favre takes his students – and today's viewers – through a colorful molecular dance. Through its play on color and movement and its singular terminology, this film reveals to the neophyte an intriguing poetics of molecular transformation.
La stéréochimie dynamique (Dynamic stereochemistry) consists of three short animated films: Cyclohexane. Inversion and pseudo-rotation; Nucleophilic substitution reactions; Sn1 reaction: solvation, solvolysis. These three silent films were intended for classes ranging from 24 to over 500 students, where the teacher was free to make “live” comments, adapting to the audience's pace of learning according to the context.
"Two out of five dynamic stereochemistry students are unable to visualize what is happening at molecule level during a chemical reaction […]. Students who have viewed the films prepared for use with Dr. Favre's method have understood, for the first time, some of the phenomena involved in stereochemistry. Some teachers, after viewing these films, are reconsidering their own teaching methods." (Excerpt from A New Method of Teaching Dynamic Stereochemistry by Dr. Henri Favre)
Nino Gabrielli
Collaborating Researcher
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la
littérature et la culture au Québec (CRILCQ)
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Français
8 mn
Language: Multilang
- Année 1969
- Pays Quebec
- Durée 8
- Producteur Centre audio-visuel de l'Université de Montréal
- Langue Silent
- Résumé court An innovative audiovisual method for teaching chemistry, developed at the Université de Montréal by Professor Henri Favre.
- Ordre 2
Using simple models of molecules – made of wood or plastic – and with the help of a creative animation team, including the Centre audio-visuel de l'Université de Montréal, Professor Henri Favre takes his students – and today's viewers – through a colorful molecular dance. Through its play on color and movement and its singular terminology, this film reveals to the neophyte an intriguing poetics of molecular transformation.
La stéréochimie dynamique (Dynamic stereochemistry) consists of three short animated films: Cyclohexane. Inversion and pseudo-rotation; Nucleophilic substitution reactions; Sn1 reaction: solvation, solvolysis. These three silent films were intended for classes ranging from 24 to over 500 students, where the teacher was free to make “live” comments, adapting to the audience's pace of learning according to the context.
"Two out of five dynamic stereochemistry students are unable to visualize what is happening at molecule level during a chemical reaction […]. Students who have viewed the films prepared for use with Dr. Favre's method have understood, for the first time, some of the phenomena involved in stereochemistry. Some teachers, after viewing these films, are reconsidering their own teaching methods." (Excerpt from A New Method of Teaching Dynamic Stereochemistry by Dr. Henri Favre)
Nino Gabrielli
Collaborating Researcher
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la
littérature et la culture au Québec (CRILCQ)
-
Français
Duration: 8 minutesLanguage: Multilang8 mn
- Année 1969
- Pays Quebec
- Durée 8
- Producteur Centre audio-visuel de l'Université de Montréal
- Langue Silent
- Résumé court An innovative audiovisual method for teaching chemistry, developed at the Université de Montréal by Professor Henri Favre.
- Ordre 2
