Studio General Chemistry with Full Merging of the Laboratory and Classroom Experiences

正在开发一个车间普通化学课程，其中包括每次会议期间的实验工作。实验工作与课堂讨论融为一体。小组工作的学生被要求将他们的宏观观察与化学原理联系起来。30分钟的基于概念的发现实验室与讨论和横向开发材料的结合提供了一个独特的化学视角。在使普通化学课程现代化的过程中，讨论的主题更少，不适合新生的物理化学更深奥的方面也被剔除。更多的时间被分配给材料化学、有机和生物化学以及环境科学。课程材料被组织成模块或案例研究，其中包含的材料是为了显示材料与学生已经接触到的问题的相关性而开发的特定目的。通过将实验室、讨论和每个主题的“横向发展”问题纳入教学大纲的每个模块，社会相关性被纳入到教学大纲的每个模块中。

A workshop general chemistry class is being developed that includes experimental work during every meeting. Lab work is merged with classroom discussion. Students working in groups are challenged to link their macroscopic observations to chemical principles. The merger of thirty-minute, concept- based discovery labs with discussion and lateral development material provides a unique perspective of chemistry. In modernizing the general chemistry curriculum, fewer topics are treated and the more esoteric aspects of physical chemistry that are inappropriate for freshmen are eliminated. More time is allocated to materials chemistry, organic and biological chemistry, and environmental science. The course material is organized into modules or case- studies that contain material which is developed with the specific aim of showing the relevance of the material to problems to which the students already have been exposed. Societal relevance is built into every module of the syllabus by incorporating laboratories, discussion and "lateral development" problems for each topic.