Increasingly, chemistry education programs are choosing to adopt the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) method to help students more effectively learn course material. In this method, small teams of students are presented with a simple model followed by questions that are designed to help students explore the model, invent concepts, and then apply concepts to new material. Published POGIL chemistry activities employ static models, either figures or tables, but there are many web-based simulations that could also serve as robust models. The purpose of this research is to incorporate user-friendly simulations as dynamic models in POGIL activities for a second semester General Chemistry course. Ultimately, we plan to assess if student learning is improved with the use of dynamic models in POGIL activities.

Incorporating dynamic models into POGIL activities for general chemistry

255th National Meeting (2018)

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