The Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource (http://www.ionicviper.org), is an online teaching materials repository and interactive social networking environment for inorganic chemistry educators.  The website was developed by a group of inorganic chemists from predominantly undergraduate institutions.  Learning objects (small instructional units) on the website include lab experiments, in-class activities, literature discussions, 'five slides about' presentations, problem set questions, and web resources.  This presentation will highlight available materials on VIPEr in the subdiscipline of solid state and materials chemistry.  The presenters will discuss ways for the solid state and materials chemistry community to contribute to VIPEr and enhance our field in the undergraduate classroom. Literature discussion activities, in particular, are an effective way to introduce undergraduates to exciting research being carried out at the frontiers of solid state chemistry.  Existing literature discussions and plans for developing more at the June 2013 workshop �VIPEr - Solid State Materials for Alternative Energy Needs� will be presented.

VIPEr: Highlighting solid state chemistry research in the undergraduate chemistry classroom

245th National Meeting (2013)

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