The laboratory course in organic chemistry for preservice chemistry teachers has been designed anew. For the course, only 2 weeks (8 h a day) are available. Therefore, we wanted to use this time effectively, which led to the following main goals: the students should achieve practical skills, understand the practical procedures they had to conduct, and apply those well-founded to new problems. Besides this, the students should get to know procedures and experiments for their future profession. The design of the course focuses on the concept of "school-related content knowledge" that was applied and adapted for planning this laboratory course. The new course has been evaluated using the results of two questionnaires as well as the content of the reflection tasks that were part of the students' laboratory journals. The students are very content with this newly designed course and are of the opinion that they developed practical skills and that they are able to apply those skills for new experiments. They also rate those skills as useful for their future profession as a chemistry teacher.
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