The AP Program has spent several years reviewing and redesigning the AP Chemistry Curriculum. This new course focuses on student understanding of chemistry while simultaneously developing students' analytical reasoning and inquiry-based skills. AP inquiry instruction incorporates any teaching method designed to encourage students to construct and to discover knowledge with an understanding of how scientists study the natural world. AP lab investigations align with best practices described in America's Lab Report, which promotes a student involvement, inquiry-based design. The teacher edition of the new AP Chemistry lab manual and a special Curriculum Module on implementing Guided-Inquiry in the Classroom will be available in 2013. This presentation will outline the content of these two new resources. Similarities and differences between the AP Chemistry approach and the POGIL/SWH approaches will be discussed.

AP Chemistry 2013 and Beyond incorporates a guided-inquiry approach in the classroom and in the laboratory

245th National Meeting (2013)

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