A Real World Model for Introductory Chemistry Laboratory Curricula

9353996拜耳该项目为四个研讨会提供资金，向参与者介绍在他们的实验室课程中使用“真实世界的化学”。现有的一系列实验--个别教员熟悉和喜欢的--被置于适合当地社区的现实世界背景中。学生成为当地组织或行业实验室的“化学家雇员”，从事这些实验，这些实验被重新制定为该组织实验室的当前项目。“转化过程”描述了没有真实世界经验的科学教师如何在他们当地寻找化学家，并提取有用的场景，这些场景可以添加到现有的介绍性实验中。这一过程引起了学生的热烈反响，并激发了他们进一步考虑科学事业的动力。***

9353996 Bayer The project provides funds for four workshop sessions to introduce participants to the use of "real world chemistry" in their laboratory courses. An existing set of experiments - familiar to and preferred by individual instructors - are placed into a real-world context appropriate for the local community. Students become "chemist employees" in the laboratory of a local organization or industry and work on these experiments reformulated as current projects of that organization's laboratory. The "transformation process" describes how science teachers without real-world experience can search out chemists in their local area and extract useful scenarios that can be added to existing introductory experiments. The process has provided an enthusiastic response from students and motivation for further consideration of a science career. ***