Case-Study General Chemistry Curriculum Supplements
Linkage of Chemical Concepts and Chemcases.com Instructional Units
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. |
ChemCases.com Curriculum Supplements link to the chemical concepts of second semester General Chemistry. Each instructional unit offers a case study on the issues of chemistry and society.
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ChemCases.Com Opportunity | Issues of Chemistry in Society |
| Liquids, Intermolecular Properties | Low Cohesive Forces in Refrigerant Liquids, Olestra Alcohol |
Institutional choices in food and diet. Abuse of substances |
| Solutions | Gatorade Formulation as an Isotonic Solution, Alcohol |
Ownership, Ethics of Testing. Abuse of substances |
| Chemical Kinetics | Silicones, Refrigerants Olestra |
Medical Decision making |
| Thermodynamics | Thermodynamics and the Preparation of Silicon, Gatorade Fuels Tetraethyllead Converter |
Safety and efficacy of medical Implants. Difficulty of Epidemiological Research. Environment vs. industrial efficiency, human comfort. |
| Equilibrium Reactions/Acid-Base | Drug Pathways and Chemical Concepts | Drug Abuse |
| Group 1-4 Elements | Silicones | |
| Group 5-8 Elements | Refrigerants | Good Business Ethics, Clash of Environmental Objectives |
| Transition Metals | Cisplatin - The Development of a Cancer Drug , Nuclear Chemistry | |
| Electrochemistry | Cisplatin - The Development of a Cancer Drug , Fuel Cells |
Drug efficacy, Political decisions on energy |
| Oxidation-Reduction | Cisplatin - The Development of a Cancer Drug | Drug Efficacy vs. Side Effects |
| Organic and Biochemistry Review | Nutrasweet Case as Introduction to Organic Chemistry Drug Pathways and Chemical Concepts |
Public Perceptions of Toxicity, Ability to Determine Safety |
| Nuclear Chemistry Topics/Nuclear Discussions | Nuclear Chemistry in Our Lives | Waste Disposal, Nuclear Proliferation |
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:
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Principal Investigator Laurence Peterson; Project Director Matthew Hermes. NSF Grant DUE-9652889 |
Chemcases.com is a National Science Foundation supported curriculum development project 
Principal Investigator Laurence Peterson
Project Director Matthew Hermes
