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Designing, Teaching, and Evaluating a Unit on Symmetry and Crystallography in the High School Classroom

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Nathaniel P. Grove

Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634

Nathan P. Guerin

Talawanda High School, Oxford, OH 45056

David J. Collins , Joseph J. López , Stacey Lowery Bretz and Hong-Cai Zhou

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056

J. Chem. Educ., 2009, 86 (8), p 946

DOI: 10.1021/ed086p946

Publication Date (Web): August 1, 2009

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History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

An innovative teaching and research partnership was developed in collaboration with public high school chemistry teachers from the Talawanda (Ohio) School District and faculty, staff, and students from Miami University. With the involvement of high school teachers, chemistry faculty, postdoctoral associates, and several graduate and undergraduate students, curricular materials were developed for teaching symmetry and X-ray crystallography in high school chemistry classrooms. An overview of the curricular materials developed and evaluation of the effectiveness of these materials is presented.

Keywords (Audience):

High School / Introductory Chemistry

Keywords (Domain):

Inorganic Chemistry

Keywords (Pedagogy):

Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives

Keywords (Subject):

Chirality / Optical Activity

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