The ChemCollective: Online Resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry

URL: http://www.chemcollective.org/

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The Chemistry Collective utilizes a combination of virtual lab problems, concept tests, scenarios, and simulations to assist students in learning chemistry. Numerous activities are available for instructors to download and use in their classes.

Summary

Subject keyword(s)	Biology, Chemistry, Chemistry -- Study and teaching, Life Science, Science, Science -- Chemistry, Science -- Instructional issues
Grade level	Middle School, High School, Higher Education, Vocational/Professional Development Education
Intended audience	Educator, Learner
Resource type	Collection, Instructional Material, Reference Material, Text, Tool
Resource format	application, application/pdf, text, text/html, video
Rights	Copyright and other restriction information is unknown

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Title	AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
Link	http://amser.org/
Description	AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for those in community and technical colleges, but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.
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Title	CSERD: Computational Science Education Reference Desk
Link	http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/
Description	The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) features resources to help students learn about computational science and to help teachers incorporate it into the classroom. Computational science involves the appropriate use of a computational architecture or computing environment (a computer, calculator, abacus, dice, or the like) to apply some algorithm, or mathematical method, to solve some scientific application, or problem. This combination of application, algorithm, and architecture results in a model that can be used as a scientific tool. The Resources section of the CSERD site provides a permanent collection of materials developed especially for CSERD, including models (pieces of scientific software), activities (lessons or lesson plans that use models), tutorials (short courses designed to teach a specific topic), applications, algorithms, architectures, and several other categories. The Resources form part of a larger catalogue of computational science items gathered by CSERD from around the internet. The catalogue can be searched or browsed by subject, keyword, education level, audience, and resource type. The record for each item includes a link to the resource, title, brief description, education level, and other information.
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Title	Internet Scout Project
Link	http://scout.wisc.edu/
Description	The Internet Scout Report provides evaluation and annotation of high-quality online resources, particularly those that will be of value to the education community. Each resource is selected, researched, and annotated by a team of professional librarians and subject-matter experts, who evaluate sites on the basis of their content, authority, upkeep, presentation, availability, and cost. Published since 1994, the Report is one of the internet's oldest and most respected publications. The Internet Scout Project is part of the College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Content contained within the resource

  About About Us View Contributors News Papers and Publications Instructors Intro for Instructors Find Activities Online Stoichiometry Course Comment About Your Experience Share Classroom Data Modify or Create Activities Students Intro for Students Find your Instructor's Website Chemistry Tutorials Run Virtual Lab Explore a Murder Mystery Try Other Activities Help Getting Started and FAQ Documentation Links Related Projects The Chemistry Collective The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education. Highlighted Resource: Central Ideas In Molecular Science - CIMS Project   In collaboration with Kent State and MIT, we are developing particulate-level simulations of chemical systems for use in chemistry, biology, materials science, and physics courses. A sample of these is now available, and we are looking for instructors interested in trying these and similar simulations in their classrooms. How to participate Find activities for use in your courses now Comment on activities and how your students responded Modify or create activities to fit particular teaching/learning goals Submit activities and websites created for your courses Discuss issues in improving teaching and learning in chemistry Sponsors The ChemCollective is funded by the National Science Foundation through the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program and the National Science Digital Library. Recent News In July we exhibited at this year’s ChemEd2011 conference at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. We also presented a workshop on classroom uses for the ChemCollective materials. In December 2010, we presented our collaborative molecular visualization work, "Visualization in Chemical Education" at the PacifiChem 2010 conference, in Honolulu, Hawaii. In August 2010, we presented our new approach to teaching equilibrium and acid/base chemistry in a talk, "Making the implicit explicit in acid-base instruction" at the 2010 ACS Fall National Meeting in Boston, Ma. Also in August 2010, we presented 2 papers, "Learning about student cognition by logging interactions with online activities" and "Recurring patterns: A cross-disciplinary approach to the big ideas of molecular science" at the 2010 BCCE at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. more.. Contact Us    Page Last Updated: 12.19.2011