Abstract In the context theme of the space station, this paper promotes the problem, improves the inquiry, relies on the evidence, builds the model, and forms the value orientation higher than the knowledge content itself. This paper develops Tao Xingzhi's creative education concept, cultivates and enhances the existing creativity of students, makes them grow up, helps students have self-awareness of model cognition in the process of solving practical problems in the future, and improves students’ integrated thinking and deeps learning ability. The key elements of complex chemical problems in the new situation are selected and broken into parts model method, so as to explore the structure of the model, to cultivate students’ ability to explain or solve complex chemical problems based on the model.