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Improving Information Literacy Through Wikipedia Editing In The Chemistry Classroom: Lessons Learned, Ye Li, Charity Flener Lovitt, Anne J. Mcneil, Kristen S. Shuyler
Improving Information Literacy Through Wikipedia Editing In The Chemistry Classroom: Lessons Learned, Ye Li, Charity Flener Lovitt, Anne J. Mcneil, Kristen S. Shuyler
Kristen S. Shuyler
Assignments in which students edit Wikipedia may help students learn about the complexities of information creation and production, while engaging them in researching and writing about topics related to class content. This chapter presents two case studies that illustrate how Wikipedia-based activities can be designed to achieve both chemistry and information literacy learning outcomes. In both examples, faculty partnered with a librarian to implement the Wikipedia editing assignments. Through these experiences, those involved learned about Wikipedia and its community, and identified promising practices for project requirements based on formal and informal assessment and observations. Reflections are offered on the value …
Teaching Climate Change Concepts And The Nature Of Science: A Library Activity To Identify Sources Of Climate Change Misconceptions, Charity Flener Lovitt, Kristen S. Shuyler
Teaching Climate Change Concepts And The Nature Of Science: A Library Activity To Identify Sources Of Climate Change Misconceptions, Charity Flener Lovitt, Kristen S. Shuyler
Kristen S. Shuyler
A library activity was developed in which students found information about climate science misconceptions from popular and scientific literatures. As part of the activity, students developed a rubric to evaluate the credibility and type of literature sources they found. The activity prepared students to produce an annotated bibliography of articles, which they then used to create a training document about a climate science misconception for staff at a local science center. Evaluation of annotated bibliographies showed that students were able to distinguish between popular and scholarly literature but struggled to identify primary and secondary sources within the scholarly literature. In …
Supplemental Materials For Building Data And Information Literacy In The Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum, Yasmeen Shorish, Barbara A. Reisner
Supplemental Materials For Building Data And Information Literacy In The Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum, Yasmeen Shorish, Barbara A. Reisner
Yasmeen Shorish
Course syllabus from Chem 481, Fall 2015, to supplement the chapter "Building Data and Information Literacy in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum" in the monograph Integrating Library and Information Literacy Into Chemistry Curricula - ACS Symposium Series, ACS Publications.
Chemistry Of Hydrogen Oxide Radicals (Hox) In The Arctic Troposphere In Spring, J Mao, D J. Jacob, M J. Evans, J R. Olson, X Ren, W H. Brune, T M. St. Clair, J D. Crounse, K M. Spencer, M R. Beaver, P O. Wennberg, M J. Cubison, J L. Jimenez, A Fried, P Weibring, J G. Walega, S R. Hall, A J. Weinheimer, R C. Cohen, G Chen, J H. Crawford, C Mcnaughton, A D. Clarke, L Jaegle, Jenny A. Fisher, R M. Yantosca, P Le Sager, C C. Carouge
Chemistry Of Hydrogen Oxide Radicals (Hox) In The Arctic Troposphere In Spring, J Mao, D J. Jacob, M J. Evans, J R. Olson, X Ren, W H. Brune, T M. St. Clair, J D. Crounse, K M. Spencer, M R. Beaver, P O. Wennberg, M J. Cubison, J L. Jimenez, A Fried, P Weibring, J G. Walega, S R. Hall, A J. Weinheimer, R C. Cohen, G Chen, J H. Crawford, C Mcnaughton, A D. Clarke, L Jaegle, Jenny A. Fisher, R M. Yantosca, P Le Sager, C C. Carouge
Jenny A Fisher
We use observations from the April 2008 NASA ARCTAS aircraft campaign to the North American Arctic, interpreted with a global 3-D chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem), to better understand the sources and cycling of hydrogen oxide radicals (HOx≡H+OH+peroxy radicals) and their reservoirs (HOy≡HOx+peroxides) in the springtime Arctic atmosphere. We find that a standard gas-phase chemical mechanism overestimates the observed HO2 and H2O2 concentrations. Computation of HOx and HOy gas-phase chemical budgets on the basis of the aircraft observations also indicates a large missing sink for both. We hypothesize that this could reflect HO2 uptake by aerosols, favored by low temperatures and …
Collaborative Chemical Information Literacy: Is It "Scholarly?", Barbara C. Harvey
Collaborative Chemical Information Literacy: Is It "Scholarly?", Barbara C. Harvey
Barbara C. Harvey
This symposium illustrates a collaborative classroom activity that incorporates information literacy into an introductory chemistry course. The primary learning outcomes of the activity are to understand the peer-review process, knowing how to locate original research articles based on “clues” in a general news article, and how to differentiate between popular and scholarly periodicals. Students work in small groups in a highly-collaborative classroom setting. Each group is given a recent chemistry-related news item, and must determine how and where to find the original research article the news item is based on. Emphasis is placed on identifying original, peer-reviewed research publications. Each …
Biophyschem2011: A Joint Meeting Of The Australian Society For Biophysics And The Raci Physical Chemistry Division Foreword, Adam Trevitt, Jeffrey Reimers, Ronald Clarke, Jamie Vandenberg
Biophyschem2011: A Joint Meeting Of The Australian Society For Biophysics And The Raci Physical Chemistry Division Foreword, Adam Trevitt, Jeffrey Reimers, Ronald Clarke, Jamie Vandenberg
Adam Trevitt
[extract] This Research Front of the Australian Journal of Chemistry is aligned with the BIOPHYSCHEM2011 meeting, a joint conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics and the Physical Chemistry Division of the RACI, which was held at the University of Wollongong from 3 to 6 December 2011. Just shy of 200 delegates made the journey to the Illawarra as these two societies came together for the first time for a national meeting. The idea for this collaboration sprang from the inaugural Australian Biophysical Chemistry Workshop, coordinated by Dr Ron Clarke (U. Sydney) and Dr Tak Kee (U. Adelaide) in 2010. …
Soil Chemistry: Understanding Phosphorus In The Environment, Paul Milham, Warwick Dougherty, Robert Morrison, Robert Clark, Ronald Smernik, Ashlea Doolette, Lucy Burkitt, Damian Collins, Rebeca Alvarez, Andrew Thomas
Soil Chemistry: Understanding Phosphorus In The Environment, Paul Milham, Warwick Dougherty, Robert Morrison, Robert Clark, Ronald Smernik, Ashlea Doolette, Lucy Burkitt, Damian Collins, Rebeca Alvarez, Andrew Thomas
Robert Clark
It is an essential ingredient in food production, but poor management means bad news downstream. Understanding the way phosphorus behaves in the environment calls for soil and plant biology, and some new soil chemistry.