Laboratory courses provide students the opportunity to perform the chemistry that is discussed in lecture, engage in peer collaboration, and develop laboratory and transferable skills. It is important that these courses also help improve student confidence in the laboratory and student attitudes towards chemistry. Inquiry labs are a one way to accomplish all of these goals. Using an iterative design process, new laboratory experiments were created for General Chemistry 2 labs. Topics include equilibrium, kinetics, crystal structure, and solubility.<br/>General Chemistry labs are a requirement for many STEM majors and are often the only chemistry experience students will have. This in turn means the large number of students required to register for general chemistry labs include a diverse range of interests, previous chemistry experience, and majors. In addition, these courses are often taught by multiple instructors and graduate teaching assistants often with high turn-overs. Together, these factors make it challenging to adopt active learning strategies, such as inquiry based experiments. These experiments will be designed to be easily adopted with minimal training, use equipment common to general chemistry labs, and provide scaffolding to help students develop core chemical concept and transferable skills.

Developing guided-inquiry labs for General Chemistry 2

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