Learning Object Requests??
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One hour lanthanides overview
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This is a set of 36 slides with an overview on the history, production, industrial applications, coordination and organometallic chemistry of the lanthanides. This is a condensed version of a semester long course for graduate students. It does not include any lanthanides spectroscopy. Some of the content was obtained from Prof. Jean-Claude Bunzli's lectures on lanthanides and actinides.
First Day Review of Atomic Orbitals
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This is an interactive small-group discussion activity I did on the first day of sophomore-level inorganic chemistry to get students to interact with each other and brainstorm to collectively review what they knew about atomic orbitals. I also wanted to "set the stage" for non-lecture type activities in this class. I adapted this in-class activity from one posted by Joanne Stewart (Hope College) with additional questions from a fundamental quiz posted by Barbara Reisner
Spring 2010 ACS Symposium on Undergraduates at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry
In what will now be the Third Annual IONiC Symposium on Undergraduates at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry, we will again be helping to organize programming for undergraduates and those who do research with undergraduates in partnership with the INOR division of the American Chemical Society for the Spring 2010 meeting in San Francisco.
Using "Clickers" in teaching
I'm thinking about using "clickers" to get students to respond to questions during class this fall in my general chemistry section. I'd be interested in hearing from people who have used them and in what ways they were used most successfully.
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Henry Taube and Electron Transfer
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When teaching reactions and mechanisms of inorganic complexes, I tend to get to the end of the chapter (out of breath) and find myself thinking "*$#&, I forgot about electron transfer". While I think it is important that students get an understanding of this in an upper level inorganic course, I simply don't have, or forgot to budget the time to really talk about it.
Inorganic Chemistry Spectroscopy Tutorial: Theoretical Principles and Applications
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We have developed an online tutorial that demonstrates the fundamental principles and applications of the various types of spectroscopy that students will encounter in the inorganic chemistry laboratory, namely infrared spectroscopy (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and UV-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis). The tutorial has been designed as a stand-alone interactive resource that can either introduce the fundamental aspects of spectroscopy from first principles or serve as a supplement for students who prefer to learn visually in an individual setti