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

9354515 Caffery，这个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手段和发展批判性思维技能的工具。该计划将让学生使用这一工具，同时强调思维技能，从简单的分析和比较到推理，最后是结果的综合和对结果的评估。这种方法是创新的，因为它要求将技术整合到整个主要项目中，而不是在个别教员开发和使用的孤立实验和练习中使用。它提供了一种创造性的方法来明确地发展思维技能和培养团队合作精神。这个项目将主要集中在化学和生物专业一年级和二年级的课程，并将包括精选的高年级课程，在这些课程中，该技术具有重要的应用价值。我们还认为，非理科专业的学生可以学习对简单分子进行建模，并将其纳入我们的设计。他们将通过“做科学家做的事”来学习科学。

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