Developing the content of the chemistry curriculum at the secondary stage in the light of the standards of life applications

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The purpose of the study is developing the chemistry curriculum in light of the standards of life applications. To achieve this, the researcher prepared a list of standards and indicators of life applications for the content of the chemistry curriculum for the three grades in the secondary stage which included a number (9) standards that fall under each criterion, a set of indicators related to it, where the number of indicators reached (78) indicators. He also analyzed the content of the chemistry curriculum at the secondary stage in light of the list of standards and indicators of life applications for the content of the chemistry curriculum. The researcher also prepared a list of life applications for the content of the chemistry curriculum in light of the list of standards and indicators of life applications which included (177) Life Applications. He analyzed the content of the chemistry curriculum at the secondary stage in light of the list of life applications for the content of the chemistry curriculum. The results of analyzing the content of chemistry books for the three grades at the secondary stage showed that (71%) of the indicators related to life applications of the chemistry curriculum content were not covered in the chemistry books for the secondary stage, and that the number of applications included with the content of these books is (49) of (177) life application (28%(. In the light of these results, the researcher built the proposed framework to develop the chemistry curriculum in light of the standards of life applications for secondary school students in the three grades.

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