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

分子建模在化学课程中的整合作为理解化学结构和培养批判性思维技能的工具

• 批准号: 9354515
• 负责人: Mary Caffery
• 金额: $ 7.39万
• 依托单位: Clarke University of Dubuque, Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-05-01 至 1997-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9354515&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Molecular; Modeling; Across; Chemistry

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

9354515 Caffery该项目的目标是开发材料，将分子建模整合到化学课程中，作为理解化学结构的一种手段，并作为发展批判性思维技能的工具。该计划将让学生参与使用这一工具，同时强调从简单的分析和比较到推理，最后是综合结果和评估结果的思维技能。这种方法是创新的，因为它要求在整个主要程序的技术集成，而不是在孤立的实验和练习中使用开发和使用的个别教师。它提供了一种创造性的方法，明确发展思维技能和促进团队合作。 该项目将主要侧重于第一和第二年的化学和生物专业的课程，并将包括选定的上师课程，其中该技术具有重要的应用。我们还相信，非科学专业的学生可以学习模拟简单的分子，并将其纳入我们的设计中。他们将通过“做科学家做的事”来学习科学。“*y