Douglas G. Pohl, Jose Sanchez, and Stephen Wilson. Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
A recently approved building project provides a unique opportunity to address pedagogical problems with the inclusion of a studio lab space. The studio approach to teaching chemistry has been the topic of several NSF funded initiatives. This new space will allow integration of laboratory activities with chemical concepts taught in lecture courses. To insure this integration is meaningful we intend to develop guided inquiry activities that purposefully take advantage of the studio environment using the POGIL methodology. Two classic labs currently being used in our freshman laboratory involving the Fe3+ (aq) + SCN- (aq) ↔ FeSCN2+ (aq) equilibrium have been modified to include POGIL activities. We have modified both the “Determination of the Concentration Equilibrium Constant , Kc” and the “Determination of the Temperature Effects on the Concentration Equilibrium Constant” to be used in the studio classroom setting.