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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If it gets bad chemistry teachers to stop lecturing straight from the textbook (which is what happened in my high school chemistry class), and start assigning actual scientific writing about chemistry for students to read, then "less teaching" is a good thing[/quote]

No, it will enable lazy chemistry teachers to do less lecturing and less labwork.  They will use it as an excuse to assign more reading.  Is that what you want?[/quote]

I have to admit, I never took Chemistry in high school.   Are you telling me that before kids do chemistry labs, there is no reading involved?   They don't have to read textbooks?  Charts?   Papers?   Results of previous labs?   Don't you have to use reading, in order to read lab instructions?[/quote]

PP again.   A cursory internet search brought up a number of High School Chemistry textbooks.  Here's a page form one that is available online:

http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/chemeq/Eq-01.html#SEC1

Certainly looks like ample opportunity for reading to be used.  I see topic headings, paragraphs, bolded vocabulary, subheadings, main ideas, and details.   Ample need for the skill of reading to be applied, in the field of chemistry, perhaps before said labwork takes place.

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