{"title":"Using Multiple PhET Sims to Investigate Greenhouse Gases within a Real-World Context","authors":"Ted M. Clark*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c0055110.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00551","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p >The need for educational resources that effectively address contemporary scientific and societal challenges is exemplified by the global issue of climate change. This article describes a lesson utilizing multiple PhET sims in a general chemistry course examining greenhouse gases and their contribution to global warming. This is a cumulative lesson that integrates topics from earlier in the course such as Lewis structures, VSEPR predicted geometries, and molecular polarity. The lesson plan also incorporates a socio-political context, which includes exploring the views of citizens from various countries and analyzing the opinions of current American politicians on climate change. Student feedback highlights the strong appeal of this approach, noting particularly its relevance and effectiveness in linking scientific principles to real-world issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":43,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chemical Education","volume":"101 10","pages":"4242–4250 4242–4250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Chemical Education","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00551","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The need for educational resources that effectively address contemporary scientific and societal challenges is exemplified by the global issue of climate change. This article describes a lesson utilizing multiple PhET sims in a general chemistry course examining greenhouse gases and their contribution to global warming. This is a cumulative lesson that integrates topics from earlier in the course such as Lewis structures, VSEPR predicted geometries, and molecular polarity. The lesson plan also incorporates a socio-political context, which includes exploring the views of citizens from various countries and analyzing the opinions of current American politicians on climate change. Student feedback highlights the strong appeal of this approach, noting particularly its relevance and effectiveness in linking scientific principles to real-world issues.
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The Journal of Chemical Education is the official journal of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society, co-published with the American Chemical Society Publications Division. Launched in 1924, the Journal of Chemical Education is the world’s premier chemical education journal. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles and related information as a resource to those in the field of chemical education and to those institutions that serve them. JCE typically addresses chemical content, activities, laboratory experiments, instructional methods, and pedagogies. The Journal serves as a means of communication among people across the world who are interested in the teaching and learning of chemistry. This includes instructors of chemistry from middle school through graduate school, professional staff who support these teaching activities, as well as some scientists in commerce, industry, and government.