We used SENCER pedagogy to develop and implement an integrated, thematic learning community around the theme of water quality in the Cuyahoga River watershed. The students, with undeclared majors and indicators of risk academically, wrote about STEM work in the English Composition class associated with the learning community and spoke about it in the oral communication class, but were not enrolled in a traditional STEM lecture and lab course. Students performed indoor and outdoor lab work while in a scheduled career planning, student success seminar, or a special topics course. Much of the water quality analysis was done in the chemistry lab. This talk will discuss the chemistry content that the students learned, the chemistry lab analyses, and the class activities surrounding the water quality analysis which continue to be done in our general-education chemistry lab course.

Chemistry lab water quality analysis in an integrated thematic learning community

249th National Meeting (2015)

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