POGIL activities for advanced inorganic chemistry courses

CHED 116

Jens-Uwe Kuhn, kuhn@chem.ucsb.edu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510 and Jessica D. Martin, martinj@nsuok.edu, Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, 600 N. Grand Ave., Tahlequah, OK 74464.
We have designed Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning activities suitable for use in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry courses. Topics include Periodicity and the Periodic Table, Coordination Chemistry, Electronic Structure and Spectra of D-block Metals, Solid State Chemistry, and Applications to Bioinorganic Chemistry. The activities were designed using actual data from current and historical literature to provide students both with experience evaluating data and with basic knowledge about topics in inorganic chemistry. These activities are currently being tested in the Advanced Inorganic Chemistry course at Northeastern State University. Some of the activities and initial review of the activities are presented here, along with suggestions and ideas for additional activities.
 

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7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008