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Facilitating laboratory learning
- To study about the importance of chemical design for
future development
- To emphasize the use of scientific investigation skills
for facilitating laboratory learning
This program develops basic concepts required for the understanding
of chemical design. In order to show students how substances
undergo intended chemical changes, teachers use experiences
from everyday life, such as baking, soft drinks, the components
of drugs, and the contents of felt tip markers. Chemists,
portrayed in this video as chemical designers, use a variety
of laboratory inquiry methods and tools. These tools are
applied to chemistry teaching in the classroom and to the
ways teachers can facilitate of laboratory learning.
"We, as organic chemists, are molecular
engineers. Our tools, instead of wood and steel and hammers
and nails, are atoms and molecules. And we have learned
how to put these together to build molecules… so when
we design, it’s no different than when an architect
designs. You ask yourself which atoms you want placed where,
what the ultimate architecture of the molecule is, and then
you design a route to build it. Then you…actually make
the molecule."
Dr. Kevin Chapman
Director of Medicinal Research, Merck
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