Curricular Enhancement of the Sciences through the Vertical Integration and Interdisciplinary Applications of GCMS

通过 GCMS 的垂直整合和跨学科应用增强科学课程

• 批准号: 0736538
• 负责人: Lois Zook-Gerdau
• 金额: $ 13.63万
• 依托单位: Muskingum College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-15 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0736538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curricular; Enhancement; Sciences; through; Vertical

Chemistry (12) GC-MS instrumentation is being vertically integrated throughout the curriculum to expand the learning experiences of students as well as faculty members in a wide variety of course offerings and in undergraduate research projects. Through hands-on operation of the instrument, method development exercises and novel inquiry-based experimentation, the depth at which students understand core chemical principles as well as their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills is advanced. Novel experiments and experiments adapted and modified from the literature are being used, and they increase in complexity as students proceed from basic chemistry to the more advanced level courses. A capstone research course is providing an interdisciplinary real-world exposure to a versatile analytical instrumental method and by reinforcing through experimentation the theory behind GC-MS is increasing the depth of students' understanding of chemistry and allowing them to see the interconnections amongst related fields of study. Interdisciplinary approaches to the sciences are thought to improve critical thinking skills by requiring students to draw on knowledge from multiple disciplines to solve a problem.

化学（12）GC-MS仪器在整个课程中垂直整合，以扩大学生和教师在各种课程和本科研究项目中的学习经验。通过动手操作仪器，方法开发练习和新颖的探究式实验，学生理解核心化学原理的深度以及他们的批判性思维和解决问题的能力。新的实验和实验改编和修改的文献正在使用，他们的复杂性增加，学生从基础化学进行到更先进的水平课程。一个顶点研究课程提供了一个跨学科的现实世界接触到一个多功能的分析仪器方法，并通过实验加强GC-MS背后的理论是增加学生对化学的理解的深度，并让他们看到研究的相关领域之间的相互联系。跨学科的科学方法被认为是通过要求学生利用多个学科的知识来解决问题来提高批判性思维能力。