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Connected Chemistry—A Novel Modeling Environment for the Chemistry Classroom
Mike Stieff
Department of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
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March 2005
Vol. 82 No. 3
p. 489
Abstract
This article introduces a novel learning environment for teaching chemistry, Connected Chemistry, and describes its potential use in a high school and undergraduate chemistry classrooms. Connected Chemistry comprises several molecular simulations and is designed to enable instructors to teach chemistry using the perspective of "emergent phenomena". That is, it allows students to see observed macro-level chemical phenomena, like many other scientific phenomena, as resultant from the interactions of many individual agents on a micro-level. This perspective is especially appropriate to the study of chemistry where the interactions between multitudes of molecules on the atomic level give rise to the macro-level concepts that students study in the classroom. For example, physical processes such as melting and evaporation and the concepts of pressure and temperature result from such molecular interactions, which students cannot observe directly. Modeling environments such as Connected Chemistry provide students with the opportunity to observe these interactions in a simulated chemical reaction to aid students in developing a deeper understanding of chemistry concepts and processes in the classroom and laboratory. Here, the pedagogical foundations of Connected Chemistry are presented as well as three potential applications of the software: as a classroom visualization tool, a laboratory simulator, and a student feedback tool.
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*  Citation
 Stieff, Mike. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 489.
*  Keywords
 CER Constructivism; Computer-Based Learning; Curriculum
*  History
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Last Updated:		 February 2, 2005
February 18, 2005
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