CHEDMonday, 11 September 2006

1:30 PM-4:45 PM San Francisco Marriott -- Salon 10, Oral
Chemical Education Research
Learning New Concepts
Organizer, Presidings:Diana Mason
Vickie M. Williamson
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:35 PMInvestigation of the effect of representation scale on student understanding of chemical concepts
Kereen Monteyne, Giovanni Avila, Emily Lomont
2:00 PMLearning about space and time dependence at the atomic level: Addressing the problem through visualization
Peter Garik, Dan Dill, Alexander Golger, Morton Z. Hoffman
2:25 PMContribution of the nature of the context to the activation of students' molecular-level ideas about aqueous solutions
Melonie A. Teichert, Lydia T. Tien, Dawn Rickey
2:50 PMIntermission
3:00 PMClassification of organic compounds and reactions/mechanisms by science majors, I
Moisés Camacho
3:25 PMLearning equilibrium chemistry using a systematic approach
Melinda Z. Kalainoff, Dawn E. Riegner, Matthew A. Deloia, Russ P. Lachance, Andrew I. Biaglow
3:50 PMExploring student thinking when classifying chemical reactions
Marilyne N. Stains, Vicente Talanquer
4:15 PMConnecting quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and kinetics with statistical mechanics: A series of computational projects for physical chemistry II students
Jessica L. Cline, Sally A. Meyer, Hunter Elliott
4:40 PMConcluding Remarks

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The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006