Enhancing the Undergraduate Laboratory Experience By Combining an Environmental Focus, Instrumental Methods and Service Learning

通过结合环境重点、仪器方法和服务学习来增强本科生实验室经验

• 批准号: 0126421
• 负责人: Susan Sutheimer
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: Green Mountain College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-01 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0126421&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Undergraduate; Laboratory; Experience; Combining

Chemistry (12)The goals of this project are to narrow the gaps between textbook concepts and real world chemistry, and between student interests and student laboratory experiences. These goals are being accomplished by structuring laboratories for all chemistry courses around the common theme of the environment, by stressing the use of instrumental techniques, and by adding a service learning component. This project is adapting the Topic Oriented Approach Development concept from the University of Wisconsin and implementing specific laboratory experiments from the educational literature. Students are placed in real world situations so they will find chemistry laboratories interesting, relevant, and applicable to their world. The chemistry courses serve non-chemistry and non-science majors at an environmental liberal arts college, and thus the focus on environmentally related topics is especially relevant to student interests. The use of instrumental methods in the laboratories adds a dimension of interest, skill, and analytical thought, improving both teaching and student learning.

化学（12）本项目的目标是缩小教科书概念和真实的世界化学之间的差距，以及学生兴趣和学生实验室经验之间的差距。这些目标正在通过围绕环境的共同主题构建所有化学课程的实验室，强调使用仪器技术，并增加服务学习组件来实现。这个项目是改编自威斯康星州大学的主题导向教学法发展概念，并从教育文献中实施具体的实验室实验。学生被放置在真实的世界的情况下，所以他们会发现化学实验室有趣，相关，并适用于他们的世界。化学课程服务于环境文科学院的非化学和非科学专业，因此对环境相关主题的关注与学生的兴趣特别相关。在实验室中使用仪器方法增加了兴趣，技能和分析思维的维度，提高了教学和学生的学习。