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(July 20, 2008)
Molecular Workbench at University of Illinois Chicago:
Are grade school students capable of performing design tasks related to nanoscale self-assembly?
How does the contextualization of these tasks within domain language affect student understanding?
A pilot study conducted by Prof. Thomas G. Moher's research group
examined these questions using the Molecular Workbench software.
The screenshot image on the right was taken a poster by Emily
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Check out
their results.
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Molecular Workbench at American University of Beirut:
MW is featured at the University's Moodle site.
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Check out
American University of Beirut's web page about MW.
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Molecular Workbench at Bowling Green State University:
Prof. Neocles Leontis has created a column of chemistry simulations that currently
include diffusion, equilibration and heat transfer.
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Check out
Prof. Leontis's Column in the submission area.
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Molecular Workbench at Tacoma Community College:
Philip Hunter at Tacoma Community College has created some chemistry simulations that
include kinetic theory, electrostatics, state of matter, intermolecular forces and so
on.
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Check out Philip's web site.
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Molecular Workbench in Chile:
Prof. Arie Aizman at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
and Dr. Carlos Cárdenas at Universidad Andrés Bello, both associated with the
Núcelo Milenio de Mecánica Cuántica Aplicada y Química Computacional
(a computational chemistry research center in Chile), have developed a set
of activities for 7th and 8th graders, and tested in Chilean schools.
From a survey done to 638 students that participated,
71% liked the activities very much.10% did not like this kind of activities in their
classes and the rest did not find anything special to say about them. On the other hand,
in an independent question, 90.4% said that they wish that other classes (math, biology, etc.)
would incorporate this kind of activities. 64% of the students thought that the activities
were very easy to perform, 4.4% thought very hard to go through and the rest took the average.
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Check out their web site at:
http://www.nucleomileniocuantica.cl/extension/actividades.html.
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Wireless Chemistry Lab: Hewlett-Packard donated $70,000 to Parkland College to
develop a Wireless Chemistry Lab, which will "allow students to see animation
of chemical reactions with just a click of mouse. Instructor can then track the students'
progress with the software" (from ABC News). The Wireless Chemistry Lab uses the Molecular
Workbench software to provide chemistry simulations and collect student data.
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Check out their web site at:
http://gradedev.csit.parkland.edu/.
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