Mobile Learning Application for Helping Pupils in Learning Chemistry

Ahmad Ewais,Sirien Jaradat,Mohammad Maree,Rami Hodrob

doi:10.3991/ijim.v15i01.11897

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https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i01.11897

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<p>Elementary school pupils can face different difficulties to learn different topics. Among the different topics, learning chemical elements and their different properties and interactions. A way to make the learning process easier and effective is using mobile learning. Mobile learning can contribute a new method to educate pupils different topics. Also, mobile learning has different advantages over classical learning materials. Among the different advantages of using mobile learning is the fact that it enables pupils to interact with learning materials, visualize different learning concepts, and learning anytime and anywhere. This article presents an exploration study related to investigating the possible use of educational mobile App to learn chemistry course in elementary school. The article presents also a qualitative research methodology implemented by including 7 pupils. � The findings of this research show that mobile learning technology can be adopted for learning chemistry course in order to enable pupils to understand periodic table, chemical elements properties and their chemical interaction. Also, this study has shown that the proposed mobile application can be integrated in learning chemistry course for elementary school pupils.</p>

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Chemistry is considered as one of the important science subjects in elementary schools, pupils find it as uninteresting and difficult domain (Sirhan, 2007)
Enabling pupils to view all chemical elements in the periodic table with their characteristics; chemical reaction equations and interactive chemical lab helping pupils to perform chemical equations between different elements; electron configuration enabling pupils to know how many electrons that are available for each chemical element; molecules game
The ChemApp was evaluated by female pupils to test its functionalities and investigate pupils’ attitudes toward the use of mobile learning in chemistry course

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Chemistry is considered as one of the important science subjects in elementary schools, pupils find it as uninteresting and difficult domain (Sirhan, 2007) This is related to the obstacles and misconception that the pupils face to understand learning concepts such as periodic table, properties of chemical elements, chemical interaction between different atoms and molecules, chemical bound, etc. (Hafis & Supianto, 2018) proposed mobile application game which enables pupils to learn chemistry concept of chemical bonds to improve the pupils learning achievements. Another research work presented in (Cahyana, Paristiowati, Savitri, & Hasyrin, 2017) proposed the use of mobile learning application to visualize the different steps in organic chemistry reaction by enabling pupils to compose the chemical bonds between atoms using touch screens. More related work can be found in the reviewed work in (Klimova, 2019; Qurat-ul-Ain et al, 2019)

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