9
Jun
2019
Materials chemistry
9
Jun
2019
Inorganic Chemistry I
Submitted by Bradley Wile, Ohio Northern University
8
Jun
2019
VIPEr Fellows 2019 Workshop Favorites
Submitted by Barbara Reisner, James Madison UniversityDuring our first fellows workshop, the first cohort of VIPEr fellows pulled together learning objects that they've used and liked or want to try the next time they teach their inorganic courses.
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4
Jun
2019
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by Jeremy Andreatta, Worcester State University
3
Jun
2019
Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by Leon Tilley, Stonehill College
13
Feb
2019
Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by John Lee, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
1
Feb
2019
Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by Steven Girard, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
16
Jan
2019
Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by Catherine McCusker, East Tennessee State University
3
Jan
2019
Venn Diagram activity- What is inorganic Chemistry?
Submitted by Sheila Smith, University of Michigan- DearbornEvaluation Methods:
I did not assess this piece, except by participation in the discussion
Evaluation Results:
I asked my students to write an open ended essay to answer the question (asked in that first day exercise): What is Inorganic Chemistry.
Interestingly, 2 of my 15 students drew a version of this Venn Diagram to accompany their essays.
Description:
This Learning Object came to being sort of (In-)organically on the first day of my sophomore level intro to inorganic course. As I always do, I started the course with the IC Top 10 First Day Activity. (https://www.ionicviper.org/classactivity/ic-top-10-first-day-activity). One of the pieces of that In class activity asks students- novices at Inorganic Chemistry- to sort the articles from the Most Read Articles from Inorganic Chemistry into bins of the various subdisciplines of Inorganic Chemistry. As the discussion unfolded, I just sort of started spontaneously drawing a Venn Diagram on the board.
I think Venn diagrams are an excellent logic tool, one that is too little applied these days for anything other than internet memes. This is a nice little add-on activity to the first day.
Your Venn diagram will likely look different from mine. You're right.
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The successful student should be able to:
- identify the various sub-disciplines of inorganic chemistry.
- apply the rules of logic diagrams to construct overlapping fields of an Venn diagram.
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colored chalk may be handy but not required.
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I used this activity in conjuction with a first day activity LO (also published on VIPEr).
I shared a clean copy (this one) with the students after the class where we discussed this.
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10-15 minutes
11
Sep
2018
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Submitted by Darren Achey, Kutztown UniversityPages
