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

化学(12)这个项目的目标是缩小教科书概念和现实世界化学之间的差距，缩小学生兴趣和学生实验室经验之间的差距。正在通过围绕环境这一共同主题为所有化学课程建立实验室、强调使用仪器技术以及增加服务学习部分来实现这些目标。这个项目采用了威斯康星大学的面向主题的方法开发概念，并从教育文献中实施了具体的实验室实验。学生被置于真实世界的情景中，因此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理学院的非化学和非理科专业的学生，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，改善了教学和学生的学习。

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.