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In the Classroom
JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Promoting Graphical Thinking: Using Temperature and a Graphing Calculator To Teach Kinetics Concepts
José E. Cortés-Figueroa
Organometallic Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR 00681-9019

Deborah A. Moore-Russo
Department of Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR 00681-9018

checked by Mark Case
Emmaus High School, Catasauqua, PA 18032

Cover
January 2004
Vol. 81 No. 1
p. 69
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A Calculator-Based Laboratory (CBL) System, a graphing calculator, and a cooling piece of metal are used in a classroom demonstration to teach key concepts of a first-order chemical reaction. This activity promotes graphical thinking and permits student-centered instruction where the students explore concepts and discover how simple mathematical equations model observable facts (data).

Find this demonstration and others in the DigiDemos area of the JCE Digital Library.

See Correction re: this article.

More Information
*  Citation
 Cortés-Figueroa, José E.; Moore-Russo, Deborah A. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 69.
*  Keywords
 Analytical Chemistry; Computer-Based Learning; Demonstrations; Kinetics; Teaching / Learning Aids
*  History
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Last Updated:		 December 8, 2003
July 7, 2005
Link to Correction added (July 2005).
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