FTIR: A Tool for Changing College and High School ChemistryCurriculum to a Discovery Mode

将大学和高中化学课程改为发现模式旨在通过修改教学方法来影响大学和K-12教育，将现代实验室方法、先进的化学概念、基于发现的教学和社区服务学习(CSL)项目带给Flathead Valley社区学院(FVCC)的一年级和二年级理科和非理科学生以及蒙大拿州西北部农村Flathead High School(FHS)的化学学生。1994年，我们购买了微型实验室设备，并将CSL添加到课程中。下一阶段引入了傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)，这是所需的设备。FTIR在定性和定量上扩展了我们的课程，支持用微尺度技术和基于仪器的定量分析获得的小样本量。它允许进行动力学研究，为大班提供高吞吐量，并更有效地使我们的学生对科学和教学科学感兴趣，使他们接触到工作场所使用的当前研究和分析方法。使用现代仪器来开发和实施概念和理论，整合了讲课和实验室部分，并增加了基于发现的教学。将在两所学校安装的光谱分析软件支持本科生研究项目和与FHS的联合发现项目/辅导和提及项目。使用FTIR的学生合成项目被添加到有机课程中。化学和环境科学课程的非理科学生学习仪器在科学发现过程中的作用。将增加一门犯罪学课程，以支持FVCC的刑事司法计划和当地执法人员，利用FTIR分析毒品、油漆芯片和爆炸物。项目结果将通过出版物、演示文稿和电子交付方式传播给当地和全国的大学和高中化学和CSL教育工作者。项目将通过学生反思、学术S成绩和入学人数进行评估。

Changing College and High School Chemistry Curriculum to a Discovery Mode is designed to impact college and K-12 education by revising teaching methods, bringing modern laboratory methods, advanced Chemical concepts, discovery based instruction, and community service learning (CSL) projects to freshman and sophomore science and non-science students at Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) and chemistry students at Flathead High School (FHS) in rural northwest Montana. In 1994 we purchased microscale laboratory equipment and added CSL to the curriculum. The next phase introduces Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), the requested equipment. FTIR expands our courses qualitatively and quantitatively, supporting the small sample sizes obtained with microscale techniques and instrumentation based quantitative analysis. It allows kinetics studies, provides high throughput for large classes, and more effectively interests our students in science and in teaching science, exposing them to current research and analysis methods used in the workplace. Use of modern instrumentation to develop and enforce concepts and theories integrates lecture and laboratory components and adds discovery based instruction. The spectral analysis software to be installed at both schools supports undergraduate research projects and joint discovery projects/tutoring and mentioning projects with FHS. The student synthetic project using FTIR, is added in organic courses. Non science students in chemistry and environmental science courses learn the role of instrumentation in the process of scientific discovery. A Criminalistics course will be added to support FVCC's Criminal Justice program and local law enforcement officers, utilizing FTIR to analyze drugs paint chips and explosives. Project results will be disseminated to college and high school chemistry and CSL educators locally and nationally via publications, presentations, and electronic delivery The project will be evaluated by student reflection, academic s uccess, and enrollments.