CHED 751 |
| The increase in science-based procedural crime dramas on television has lead to a surge in student interest in forensic science. To encourage this interest we have designed a 2-week experiment where teams of students use gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry to “solve” a hypothetical arson case. Students are given four crime scene samples at various stages of combustion as well as four possible accelerants. Using process-oriented guided learning students discover how state-of-the-art scientific techniques rely on general chemistry fundamentals, in this case GC-MS using intermolecular forces to separate a complex mixture. The lab was incorporated into a first-semester general chemistry lab and a second-semester general chemistry lab to determine the appropriate audience for this experiment. |
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POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning
1:30 PM-4:45 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Magnolia, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |