Teaching the subject of the electron transport chain is one of the most challenging aspects of the chemistry curriculum at the high school level. This article presents an educational program called "Electron Transport Chain" which consists of 14 visual animations including a biochemistry quiz. The program was created in the Adobe Flash CS3 Professional animation program and is designed for high school chemistry students. Our goal is to develop educational materials that facilitate the comprehension of this complex subject through dynamic animations which show the course of the electron transport chain and simultaneously explain its nature. We record the process of the electron transport chain, including connections with oxidative phosphorylation, in such a way as to minimize the occurrence of discrepancies in interpretation. The educational program was evaluated in high schools through the administration of a questionnaire, which contained 12 openedended items and which required participants to evaluate the graphics of the animations, chemical content, student preferences, and its suitability for high school biochemistry teaching. V C 2015 by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 43(4):294-299, 2015.Keywords: computers in research and teaching; high school; using multimedia in the classroom; using simulation and internet resources for teaching
AZ-Quiz and Jeopardy! are popular television shows and serve as the basis for in-class games designed to support and diversify chemistry instruction at the high school level. Both games were created in Microsoft PowerPoint, which is an easily accessible and controllable instrument that enables the creation of engaging animation. The use of games helps students to practice material covered in class, providing them with a fun and entertaining form of review. The questions in these games come from the following areas: (i) basic metabolism of carbohydrates, peptides, and (ii) lipids and nucleic acids and biological cells.
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