Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 8:50 AM
Medical Arts Building, Rm M-133 (Queensborough Community College)
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Cooperative Learning in Inorganic Chemistry: Group Activities for Fun and Learning

Elise G. Megehee, St. John's University, Queens, NY

Over the past five years I have developed and implemented 20-25 group exercises in the classroom setting in a senior level inorganic chemistry lecture without appreciable loss of course content. These exercises allow the students to try the calculations or apply a theory and discover what they do and don't understand in the classroom setting. It also has allowed me to understand and quickly correct errors in student understanding of the material. I will discuss the range of activities such as Jeopardy games to make reviewing more interesting, strategies for implementing the activities into the lecture and the observed outcomes.