Chemist David G. Evans teaches a chemistry lesson at Nanjing Zhongshan Primary School in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. [Photo/Jiangsu International Online]
The Nanjing Zhongshan Primary School in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province recently invited David G. Evans, an English chemist and distinguished professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, to conduct a chemistry lesson.
During the lesson, Evans performed several experiments to pique the students' interest and help them understand the differences between physical and chemical change.
He also encouraged students to think and seek the truth using scientific methods. "The amazing things you are watching are not magic but science. You should think about why such changes happen like a scientist and do experiments to test your ideas," Evans told the students.
Evans received his doctoral degree from Oxford in 1984 and became a teacher at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 1996. He and his colleagues have given chemistry experiment lessons to students at many schools since 2011 to popularize the discipline.
"I hope my efforts would help children who love chemistry strengthen their resolve to be a chemist, and that all kids can develop scientific thinking," said Evans.
The Nanjing Zhongshan Primary School has been organizing a variety of activities to conduct science education in recent years. Forty-eight students in the school have been honored as "little academicians" by the Chinese Youth Academy of Sciences.
