Through an NSF-funded project, we have written a series of in-class activities that link general chemistry concepts to climate change topics using the POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) approach.  Within each activity we have chosen models that connect climate change context to chemistry content. We believe the direct inclusion of context models is important in activities traditionally designed to teach fundamental chemistry concepts as a way to increase student engagement.  Choosing appropriate types of models helps guide students towards making connections between the content and context found in each activity.  This talk will address the importance of choosing relevant models and some of the challenges we have found in linking these context models with general chemistry content.  A few example models will be presented.<br/> <br/>

Fracking and carbon sequestration, oh my: Connecting general chemistry students to climate change topics

249th National Meeting (2015)

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