Peer-Led Team Learning: General Chemistry, 2/e
David K. Gosser, City College of New York, CUNY
Victor S. Strozak, Graduate Center, CUNY
Mark S. Cracolice, University of Montana

Copyright 2006, 320 pp.
Paper format
ISBN 0131464442

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Summary

Peer-Led Team Learning is an innovative model in science education. Student-leaders (peers) guide the activities of small groups of students in weekly Workshop meetings. The students work through challenging problems that are designed to be solved cooperatively. The peer leaders are trained to ensure that the students are actively and productively engaged with the material and with each other. This methodology offers a number of educational opportunities: the supportive format encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding; students learn to work in teams and to communicate more effectively; peer leaders learn teaching and group management skills. Designed for students, this workbook features hundreds of class-tested problems at a variety of levels. These problems cover the core areas of the typical general chemistry course and can be used as-is or adapted by instructors.

Features

  • Focuses most heavily on areas of traditional weakness—The authors have many years of teaching experience and have focused the modules on the topics students traditionally find the most difficult to master.
    • Students will get plenty of opportunity to practice and learn the most challenging core concepts.
  • Versatile—This material has been developed by instructors who teach general chemistry at a variety of institutions. The material is organized into units that correspond to the core chapters found in most general chemistry textbooks.
    • Instructors will find this material at a variety of levels, one of which will be appropriate for their students.
    • All instructors, whether they are teaching a two-term or a one-term sequence, can use this workbook to assign group problems.
    • Instructors can use this material no matter which text they use.
  • Extensively class-tested—The material in the workbook has been tested on students at a variety of institutions and fine-tuned for efficacy and accuracy.
    • The material in this workbook forms a strong base that can be used as-is and at once.
  • Instructor Website—Allows constant updating and provision of additional problems.
    • As new problems are developed and as material is refined, users of this book are able to access a database of this material over the internet.

Table Of Contents

1. The Search for the Elements.
2. Atoms and Subatomic Structure.
3. Introduction to Stoichiometry.
4. Strategies for Stoichiometry.
5. Ions in Solution.
6. Gases: Nature, Laws, and Applications.
7. Thermochemistry.
8. Energy and the Hydrogen Atom.
9. Building Atoms with Quantum Leaps.
10. Covalent Bonding.
11. The Structure of Molecules.
12. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions.
13. Solutions.
14. Chemical Kinetics: Concepts and Models.
15. Rate Data and Rate Equations.
16. The Transition State and Catalysis.
17. Equilibrium Concepts.
18. Introduction to Acids and Bases.
19. The Acid-Base Concept.
20. Buffers and Titrations.
21. Solubility Equilibria.
22. Entropy Concepts.
23. Enthalpy, Entropy, and Free Energy Calculations.
24. Electrochemistry.
Appendix A: Mathematics and Measurement.
Appendix B: Unit Conversion-Dimensional Analysis.

Students Supplements

Peer-Led Team Learning: A Guidebook (ISBN: 0130288055)
Peer-Led Team Learning: A Handbook for Team Leaders (ISBN: 0130408115)