Introducing Research-inspired Modules in the General Chemistry Lab Curriculum

化学（12）大多数理工科学生把普通化学作为他们专业的要求。 然而，学生可能会普遍感到与这门课程脱节，因为他们无法理解化学如何与他们的研究领域相关。 形成联系的一种方法是在普通化学实验室中使用跨学科研究启发的模块。 因此，在这个项目中开发的四个为期3周的实验室模块强调与物理学，环境科学和工程学的联系。 此外，允许学生开发自己的实验程序的练习在一般化学实验室手册中的代表性不足。这是一个重要的一步，在桥梁之间的差距差距开始科学/工程专业的学生和自主的研究为导向的。 该项目的模块填补了教育文献中探究实验室实验类型的关键空白。 他们的目的是培养和衡量调查方法的发展，并培养积极的态度，特别是增加对化学的兴趣，这两者都是感兴趣的主题，大多数化学教育工作者。 通常可能脱离传统化学课程的学生会认为这些项目有趣且信息丰富。希望说明化学与其他领域之间关系的教育工作者对该项目的跨学科实验室模块开发感兴趣，或直接使用该项目开发的实验。

Chemistry (12)Most science and engineering students take general chemistry as a requirement for their major. However, students may generally feel disconnected from this course because they cannot appreciate how chemistry relates to their fields of study. One way to form connections is to use interdisciplinary research-inspired modules in the general chemistry laboratory. Thus, the four 3-week lab modules being developed in this project emphasize connections to physics, environmental science, and engineering. Additionally, exercises that allow students to develop their own experimental procedures are underrepresented in general chemistry lab manuals. This is a vital step in bridging the gap between a beginning science/engineering student and an autonomous research-oriented one. The modules from this project are filling a critical gap among the types of inquiry lab experiments in the education literature. They are designed to cultivate and measure progress in inquiry methods development and to foster positive attitudes about and increase interest in chemistry in particular, both of which are topics of interest to most chemical educators. Students who might normally be disengaged from their traditional chemistry course favorably view these projects as interesting and informative. Educators wishing to illustrate the relationship between chemistry and other fields are interested in this project's development of interdisciplinary lab modules or use the experiments developed from this project directly.