Using Physical Chemistry Laboratory to Improve High School Teaching and Undergraduate Learning

这个项目涉及科学教育的两个平行目标。基于激光的最先进的物理化学实验室实验改编自标准期刊上的文章。此外，在光谱学、量子力学、光化学和动力学等一般领域正在开展新的实验。其结果是一种产品，即使在这些重要领域缺乏经验，也可以让其他机构的教师建立交钥匙实验室。该项目还向本科理科生介绍了他们在研究生院和工作场所会遇到的现代技术。本项目涉及的领域目前在现代物理化学教学实验室中代表性不足。第二个主要目标是让目前在太平洋西北各州教学的高中教师在夏季进入新实验室两周，以提高他们教授实验室科学的知识和技能。教师将接受讲座和实践培训，使用最新的技术和设备，同时制定新的本科物理化学实验室的程序。这种接触将为高中教师提供新的知识，并允许他们使用先进的设备进行实际测量，并在帮助开发新的实验室程序的同时学习新的实验室技能。随着这两个目标的实现，该项目将改善西北地区的教育基础设施，并将为全国各地的学院和大学教师提供在其机构中建立现代物理化学实验室的处方。

Chemistry (12)This project attacks two parallel goals involving science education. Laser-based state-of-the-art physical chemistry laboratory experiments are being adapted from articles in standard journals. In addition, new experiments are being developed in the general areas of spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, photochemistry and kinetics. The result is a product which will allow faculty at other institutions to set up turn-key labs even if experience is lacking in these important areas. This project also introduces undergraduate science students to modern techniques they will encounter in graduate school and the work place. The areas addressed in this project are currently underrepresented in modern physical chemistry instructional laboratories. The second major goal is to bring high school teachers currently teaching in the Pacific Northwest states into the new lab for two weeks in the summer to improve their knowledge and skills teaching laboratory science. The teachers will receive lectures and hands on training using the newest techniques and equipment, while developing the procedures for the new undergraduate physical chemistry labs. This exposure will present the high school teachers with new knowledge, and allows them to make actual measurements with advanced equipment and learn new lab skills while helping develop the new lab procedures. This project will improve the educational infrastructure in the Northwest as both goals are met and will also provide college and university faculty around the country with a prescription for building modern physical chemistry loabs at their institutions.