methodological aspects of natural science education, primary chemistry education, remote and virtual laboratory, ICT in chemistry education

The role of real experiment in science education is also in time of virtual communication irreplaceable. At the same time the real life brings more virtual environment items, new virtual worlds etc. . The ob-jective of this article is to describe possibilities and their limits in the use of vir-tual environment supporting chemistry education, paying special attention to the primary chemistry instruction. It means effectiveness of the computer simu-lations and natural science (chemical) animations applied in primary science education (basic school, years 8 - 9), either independently, or in various com-binations with real experiment. The core of the provided researches is to conclude relations, regularities and recommendations for meaningful and ef-fective use of computer simulations and animations, remote and virtual labora-tories, remote sensing, and to research pedagogical-psychological phenomena as pre-concepts, individual learning styles, visual literacy etc.