Through an NSF-funded project, collaborators from a variety of different types of institutions have written a series of in-class activities that use climate change topics to teach general chemistry concepts via the POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) approach. It is expected that these new activities will help engage students in learning fundamental general chemistry topics while establishing connections to climate change concepts. Classroom testing began in Spring 2013 and feedback from the testing is being used to inform revisions. This talk will share some key components of sample activities and report on what has been learned. For example, it really is important to include specific prompts in an activity in order to better understand what students are thinking when they answer the why or explain types of questions!

Using feedback to revise and improve classroom activities

247th National Meeting (2014)

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