The Integration of Molecular Modeling Across the Chemistry Curriculum as a Tool for Understanding Chemical Structure and for Developing Critical Thinking Skills

9354515 Caffery这个项目的目标是开发一种材料，将分子建模整合到化学课程中，作为理解化学结构的手段和培养批判性思维技能的工具。该计划将让学生使用这个工具，同时强调从简单的分析和比较到推理，最后到综合结果和评价结果的思维技能。这种方法的创新之处在于，它要求在整个主要项目中整合技术，而不是将其用于单个教师开发和使用的孤立实验和练习中。它提供了一种明确发展思维技能和培养团队合作的创造性方法。该项目将主要集中在一、二年级化学和生物专业学生的课程上，并将包括选择的具有重要应用技术的高年级课程。我们也相信非科学专业的学生可以学习简单分子的建模，并将其纳入我们的设计中。他们将通过“做科学家所做的事情”来学习科学。* * * y

9354515 Caffery The goal of this project is to develop materials which will integrate molecular modeling into the chemistry curriculum as a means of understanding chemical structure and as a tool for developing critical thinking skills. The plan will involve students in using this tool while emphasizing thinking skills from simple analysis and comparison through inference and finally, synthesis of results and evaluation of findings. The approach is innovative in that it calls for integration of the techniques across the major program rather than use in isolated experiments and exercises developed and used by individual faculty members. It provides a creative means of explicitly developing thinking skills and for fostering team work. This project will focus primarily on courses taken by first and second year chemistry and biology majors and will include selected upper division courses in which the technique has significant applications. We also believe that non-science majors can learn to model simple molecules and have included them in our design. They will learn science by "doing what scientists do." ***y