Inquiry Experiments for General Chemistry: Practical Problems and Applications is a lab manual designed for students in introductory chemistry courses. The manual is the result of several projects funded primarily by the National Science Foundation and developed chiefly at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The experiments have been thoroughly tested with undergraduate non-chemistry and non-science majors as well as with pre-med, engineering, science (including chemistry), and future teachers majors. Successful use of the experiments has occurred outside the institutions of origin including secondary institutions, community colleges and universities.
Unit 1 Scientific Method Experiment 1-1 How Long Can a Bubble Last? 1 Experiment 1-2 Are All Pennies the Same? 19 Unit 2 Stoichiometry Experiment 2-1 How Much Hydrogen? 39 Experiment 2-2 How Much is Too Much? 55 Unit 3 Solutions, Atomic Structure, and Periodicity Experiment 3-1 What Makes a Solution Colored or Colorless? 67 Experiment 3-2 Are There Property Patterns? 87 Experiment 3-3 What Factors Affect Color Intensity? 107 Unit 4 Reactivity and Periodicity Experiment 4-1 What Factors Affect the Solubility of Ions? 121 Experiment 4-2 Can Toxic Ions Be Removed from Water by Precipitation? 143 Unit 5 Gases Experiment 5-1 How Do Gas Volumes Change as We Ascend and Descend? 163 Unit 6 Thermochemistry Experiment 6-1 Which Salts Make Good Cold Packs and Hot Packs? 183 Experiment 6-2 How is Heat Measured Indirectly? 201 Unit 7 Structure and Property Relationsips Experiment 7-1 Do Like Repel or Attract? 225 Unit 8 Equilibrium Experiment 8-1 How Can a Chemical Equilibrium Be Shifted? 241 Experiment 8-2 How Do Soaps Compare in Controlling Malodor? 261 Unit 9 Acids and Bases Experiment 9-1 Is It Acidic, Basic, or Neutral? 281 Experiment 9-2 Are Acid-Base Properties in Consumer Products Predictable? 299 Unit 10 Oxidation and Reduction Experiment 10-1 Do Chemicals Duplicate the Effects of a Battery? 317 Experiment 10-2 Which Metal is Appropriate for Food and Beverage Storage? 337 Unit 11 Electrochemistry Experiment 11-1 Which Metals Provide the Best Voltage? 353 Experiment 11-2 Why Did My Watch Stop Suddenly? 367 Experiment 11-3 Why is a ‘‘Harley’’ Chrome-Plated? 387 Unit 12 Kinetics Experiment 12-1 How Long Will It Take? 401
Nancy Kerner is a lecturer and Smithsonian Fellow at the University of Michigan.?She has long been involved in Guided Inquiry learning and is a co-founder of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), an NSF-funded cross-disciplinary website that shares and disseminates different types of teaching materials. Ram Lamba is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, and he won the American Chemical Society's Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in 1999.?Ram is also involved in the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning project, alongside Jim Spencer, Lyman Rickard, and Rick Moog.?He translated Moog's Guided Inquiry workbook into Spanish.
