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High School Site License
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If you're working to help your
students appreciate how chemistry applies in the "real world" outside
the classroom or looking for activities and exercises that help
students develop their problem-solving skills, Solving Real
Problems with Chemistry, 2nd Edition is an absolute gem of an
activities book. |
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Its 23 activities expose students to practical ap-plications of
the principles of chemistry in a way that will catch and sustain their
interest, challenging them to improve their performance in
critical aspects of problem-solving including asking key questions,
performing calculations, modeling, and validating.
As you might expect, each activity
provides pertinent context, a succinct statement of a problem (their
challenge), and space to work out their solution to the problem. Each
activity also contains meaningful bookends; at the beginning
of each activity, students are provided with a short list of
the specific skills they will use and improve as they solve
the stated problem. Once students have finished solving the
central problem of the activity, they are then challenged with
two or three shorter problems, allowing them an additional
opportunity to apply their newly-learned skills.
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 While solving a discrete problem is
certainly evidence of learning, what makes this book so special is
that once students solve the problem, they are prompted to take a step
back and review the actual problem-solving process and methodology
they used. Students are challenged to consider how what they learned
during the course of solving a particular problem could then be
applied in a more general way to help them solve new problems. In
other words, they are guided and prompted to not only become aware of
how they solve problems, but also to examine and consider how they can
improve their problem-solving skills.
A
truly unique feature of the book is the opportunity for an instructor
to provide three different levels of help (clues) to students.
Au Help
(gold) presents a strategy
that resembles the way experts think when they solve problems. The use
of this strategy is illustrated and prompted to differing degrees in
Ag Help (silver) and Cu Help (copper). As the semester progresses,
students should move through these stages of Help to develop
and improve their problem solving skills.
There is an Instructor's Resources
website, which includes solutions to all Got It! problems, answer keys to the
Help pages, as well as the Help pages for students (which include
prompts but not the solutions).
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Screenshot of
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We are pleased to offer an unlimited site
license for high schools. For a one-time price of $300, you will be
given access to all activities in Solving Real
Problems with Chemistry, as well as all instructor resources
(answer keys) and help pages. If you have any questions about the site
license, we encourage you to contact us. The Site License is good
for three full academic years, from the time of purchase.
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High school site
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Preface, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents
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Cheap Gas:
Is it Worth the Drive?
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Are
Homeopathic Medicines only Placebos?
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Formulating
a Fertilizer
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Substitute
Baking Soda for Baking Powder
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Neutralizing Washing Soda for Disposal
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Keeping
Warm with Carbon-Based Fuels
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Ionizing
with Light
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Origin of
Color-Blindness
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Reactive
Molecules
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Vitamins C
and E: Where Do Those Vitamins Go?
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Designing a
Fuel Injector for the Dodge Viper
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Mining
Methyl Hydrate: Fire from Ice!
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The Source
of Cellular Energy: ATP Reacting with Water
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Time of Death:
When Did it Happen?
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Breath-Alcohol Analysis
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Making Soap
Less Irritating
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Acidifying
the World’s Oceans
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The
Composition of the Dead Sea
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Where to
Build an Aluminum Plant
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Batteries:
What Do You Pay For?
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Chelates
are Life Savers
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Predicting
the Useful Life of Instrumentation on the Mars Rover
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The
Atomic & Molecular Olympics
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The Structure of a Typical Activity
What students need to know before beginning an
activity.
The skills they will use and improve as they
engage in an activity.
Additional data needed to solve the problem.
The question or situation requiring
resolution.
Space for students to solve the problem.
Two or three questions that require students
to consider specific aspects of their solution.
Students are asked for alternative ways to
solve the problem, and how what they've learned in solving this problem
might apply to other situations or problems.
Students are given the chance to demonstrate
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Solving
Real Problem with Chemistry (2nd
Edition)
is available in two different formats:
1)
as a
Digital Download
or 2) as a
Print-on-Demand
book.
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Please choose which version of the book you want:
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$26.95 +
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more,
please
contact us. We're happy to answer
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or adoption process.
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