Instructors/Faculty Information
Your students arrive in your chemistry class with an enormous diversity of background. What if the instructional material teaching the concepts of chemistry linked to many of their common experiences?
Wouldn't it become easier to make an impact, to have active learning, showing how chemistry impacts the mainstream of our lives?
ChemCases.com units are freely available for your use. They link chemical concepts taught in General Chemistry to responsible decision making in our society.
The cases provide a ready resource of capsules of knowledge that challenge and entertain your students. They provide you with a continuing, thematic source of auxiliary material to supplement your instruction. |
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Conceptually, the pedagogy employed by ChemCases may be diagrammed as follows.
1. Chemistry quietly shapes our world.

2. ChemCases.com Curriculum Supplements map chemical and cultural concepts at ever-increasing levels of cognition.

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About ChemCases.com
ChemCases.com is a series of curriculum units that link responsible decision making in product development with chemical principles taught in General Chemistry. We expect ChemCases.com curriculum supplements will lead interested students toward the sciences, medicine, pharmacy and engineering by:

Developing Knowledge of how
the tools of chemistry are used in
the service of society

Comprehension of the conflicting
information necessary to move
an idea to the marketplace

Application of this information
to show how chemical principles
are used to make decisions

Evaluation of the data to synthesize
solutions to technical and
non technical challenges
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Chemcases.com is a National Science Foundation supported curriculum development project
Principal Investigator Laurence Peterson; Project Director Matthew Hermes.
NSF Grant DUE-9652889
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