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Thompson, Meredith M.; Lamanna, Allison C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Group work can engage students in active learning, yet students often resist working with peers in class. We investigated the impact of five minimally structured, easily implemented group work strategies used during weekly problem-based discussion sections in two introductory chemistry courses through student surveys and quiz score analyses.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Introductory Courses, Chemistry
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Williams, Dylan P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
A classroom based Problem Based Learning (PBL) activity was adapted to run as a remote activity during the COVID-19 pandemic using an approach described as virtual Problem Based Learning (vPBL). vPBL is based on (i) identification of a suitable learning platform that supports collaborative working in a way that mimics the classroom based activity…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Chemistry
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Musgrove, Hannah B.; Ward, William M.; Hiatt, Leslie A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
A Quantitative Analysis Lab class was developed that began with 9 weeks of student preparation for the Quant Escape Game (QEG) where the students learned the fundamentals of quantitative analysis. The preparation was followed by the four-week QEG, an active-learning, cooperative-learning, and problem-based learning experience in which the students…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
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A^ngelo F. Pitanga; Deley A. N. da Silva; Douglas D. de Menezes; Franciele da S. Mota – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
This Article aims to share the results of a project that was developed with 80 students from Technical High School of Professional and Technological Education (PTE) at an institute located in the northeast of Brazil. The students discussed the global overview of fuel production and use, and how the introduction of green hydrogen into the market…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Nagarajan, Subhalakshmi; Overton, Tina – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
With a growing number of global challenges related to the environment, water, public health, and energy, there is an imminent need to teach chemistry in the context of its interconnectedness with other systems. Project- and problem-based learning are student-centered learning approaches which offer educators the opportunity to engage learners in…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Active Learning, Student Projects, Problem Based Learning
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Ong, Jun-Yang; Chan, Shang-Ce; Hoang, Truong-Giang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
A Sonogashira experiment was transformed into a problem-based learning platform for third-year undergraduate students. Given a target that could be synthesized in a single step, students worked in groups to investigate which method was the best for large-scale production. Through this practical scenario, students learn to conduct a literature…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Science Process Skills
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Saloranta, Tiina; Lo¨nnqvist, Jan-Erik; Eklund, Patrik C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
In our upper-level undergraduate laboratory course in organic chemistry we focus on a research-oriented task in a context-based and problem-based learning approach. The course starts with a preliminary training period where the students learn how to safely and independently perform synthesis and purification procedures and to operate the most…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
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Shen, Hao-Yu; Shen, Bo; Hardacre, Christopher – Journal of Chemical Education, 2013
A systematic approach to develop the teaching of instrumental analytical chemistry is discussed, as well as a conceptual framework for organizing and executing lectures and a laboratory course. Three main components are used in this course: theoretical knowledge developed in the classroom, simulations via a virtual laboratory, and practical…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study
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Oliver-Hoyo, Maria T.; Pinto, Gabriel; Llorens-Molina, Juan Antonio – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
Two commercial self-heating food products have been used to apply chemical concepts such as stoichiometry, enthalpies of reactions and solutions, and heat transfer in a classroom activity. These products are the self-heating beverages sold in Europe and the Meals, Ready to Eat or MREs used primarily by the military in the United States. The main…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Chemistry, Heat, Teaching Methods
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Boyce, Mary C.; Singh, Kuki – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
This paper describes a student-focused activity that promotes effective learning in analytical chemistry. Providing an environment where students were responsible for their own learning allowed them to participate at all levels from designing the problem to be addressed, planning the laboratory work to support their learning, to providing evidence…
Descriptors: College Science, Portfolio Assessment, Chemistry, Problem Solving
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Selco, Jodye I.; Roberts, Julian L., Jr.; Wacks, Daniel B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2003
Describes a sea-water analysis project that introduces qualitative and quantitative analysis methods and laboratory methods such as gravimetric analysis, potentiometric titration, ion-selective electrodes, and the use of calibration curves. Uses a problem-based cooperative teaching approach. (Contains 24 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Chemistry, Cooperative Learning, Course Descriptions