Tuesday, 27 June 2006: 8:15 AM-4:45 PM
Donner Room (John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort)
Innovations in Chemistry Education (Invited and Contributed)
Sponsored by the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education.
Organizers:Morton Z. Hoffman
Glenn A. Crosby
8:15 AM Introductory Remarks
8:20 AM119An immodest proposal: The mole is a number and absolute temperature is an energy
Christopher E. D. Chidsey
8:50 AM120Using a computer game format to effectively teach chemical nomenclature
Joseph Chimeno
9:10 AM121Tick tock, where is the clock? On the need to bring dynamic, time-dependent processes into the chemistry curriculum
John W. Kenney III
9:40 AM coffee break
10:15 AM122The Virtual ChemLab Project: Sophisticated and realistic simulations for freshman and sophomore chemistry
Brian F. Woodfield, PhD
10:45 AM123Exploring how animations of sodium chloride dissolution affect students' explanations
Resa Kelly
11:15 AM124The impact of adjunct questions emphasizing the particulate nature of matter on students' understanding of chemical concepts presented in multimedia lessons
Patananya Lekhavat, Loretta L. Jones
11:45 AM lunch break
1:15 PM125Research on student understanding of matter and energy in college physics and chemistry courses
Michael E. Loverude
1:45 PM126Improving instruction through research on student learning: A perspective from physics
David E. Meltzer
2:15 PM127Increasing the yield of chemistry students through out-of-the-box pedagogy
Morton Z. Hoffman
2:45 PM coffee break
3:05 PM128Enhancing student centered learning in analytical chemistry course
Shyam S. Shukla, J. Curran
3:25 PM129Boosting the octane rating in teaching thermochemistry
Scott J. Donnelly
3:45 PM130Opportunities for transforming and updating a CPT-approved undergraduate chemistry program to align with the newly proposed CPT guidelines
Maureen A. Scharberg
4:15 PM131Unintended consequences of innovations in science education
G. A. Crosby

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