Computer-based materials have been developed for the peer-led workshops of our honors-level general chemistry course. With guidance from the written materials and from the workshop leaders, the students start with a blank Excel® spreadsheet, and program their laptop computers for the following exercises: creation of the logarithm table, acid-base titrations, simultaneous complex ion equilibria, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, simulation of the operation of a galvanic cell, complex reaction mechanisms, wave interference. In addition, the students experience workshops that utilize programs developed to explore electronic wave functions, atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals, hybridization, bonding, and the origin of spectra. Examples of the workshop exercises will be presented and discussed.
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