TY - JOUR
T1 - A general chemistry assignment analyzing environmental contamination for the depue, IL, national superfund site
AU - Gomez, Sarah A.Saslow
AU - Faurie-Wisniewski, Danielle
AU - Parsa, Arlen
AU - Spitz, Jeff
AU - Spitz, Jennifer Amdur
AU - Loeb, Nancy
AU - Geiger, Franz M
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
PY - 2015/4/14
Y1 - 2015/4/14
N2 - The classroom exercise outlined here is a self-directed assignment that connects students to the environmental contamination problem surrounding the DePue Superfund site. By connecting chemistry knowledge gained in the classroom with a real-world problem, students are encouraged to personally connect with the problem while simultaneously developing skills in data management and interpretation. Designed for first-year undergraduate, general chemistry students, each of the four primary exercises builds upon the skills developed in those before it. This approach makes it easy to tailor this assignment to the needs of individual classrooms. This assignment was given as the first laboratory course assignment to a pilot group of 178 general chemistry undergraduate students at Northwestern University. Students enrolled in this course had already completed the first of two accelerated general chemistry courses. Over 75% of students scored in the 85% to 100% grade range, illustrating that the majority of students who completed this assignment demonstrated a high level of comprehension.
AB - The classroom exercise outlined here is a self-directed assignment that connects students to the environmental contamination problem surrounding the DePue Superfund site. By connecting chemistry knowledge gained in the classroom with a real-world problem, students are encouraged to personally connect with the problem while simultaneously developing skills in data management and interpretation. Designed for first-year undergraduate, general chemistry students, each of the four primary exercises builds upon the skills developed in those before it. This approach makes it easy to tailor this assignment to the needs of individual classrooms. This assignment was given as the first laboratory course assignment to a pilot group of 178 general chemistry undergraduate students at Northwestern University. Students enrolled in this course had already completed the first of two accelerated general chemistry courses. Over 75% of students scored in the 85% to 100% grade range, illustrating that the majority of students who completed this assignment demonstrated a high level of comprehension.
KW - Applications of Chemistry
KW - Communication/Writing
KW - Environmental Chemistry
KW - First-Year Undergraduate/General
KW - Geochemistry
KW - Inquiry-Based/Discovery Learning
KW - Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary
KW - Internet/Web-Based Learning
KW - Laboratory Instruction
KW - Public Understanding/Outreach
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U2 - 10.1021/ed500637y
DO - 10.1021/ed500637y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927795198
SN - 0021-9584
VL - 92
SP - 638
EP - 642
JO - Journal of Chemical Education
JF - Journal of Chemical Education
IS - 4
ER -