Pathway 2: Chapter 1
1. Read Chapter 1: About Science [Conceptual Chemistry – 5th edition]
2. View the Modified Power Point for Chapter 1 under Blackboard’s Course Content
During Spring Term 2017, John
Suchocki did a major modification to chapter 1. New
videos have been add
as indicated below.
The new
videos are not embedded into Path 1. Path 1 students may take path 2 or
path 3 video quizzes for extra credit for those videos not included in
Mastering Chemistry.
Path 2
students during your viewing of Chapter
1 Power Point watch the online videos for Chapter 1 as directed (most of the
following links are also in the power point):
Chapter 1: About Science
with John Suchocki
1.1 Science Is a Way of Understanding the Natural World
How to Succeed In a Science Course (New Video)
Video
#CO101Na (6:47 minutes):
Take Video Quiz 1.1 in Blackboard’s Course Content (2 points)
(unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
1.2 The Discovery of the Buckyball (Section 1.2 Needs a New Title: Maybe: The
Scientific Approach)
a. New Video: The Scientific Approach
Video CO102Na(4:19 Minutes)
b. 2nd Video: Instruction
to Kai and Maile (Tune Your Senses)
Video #CO102a (2:33 minutes)
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/vhe7r30r
Optional:
Old Video: On the Road with Kai and Maile
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/yjer597c
Take Video
Quiz 1.2 in Blackboard’s Course Content (2 points) (unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
1.3 Technology
Is Applied Science
New
Video: Science and
Technology
Video:
CO103Na (3:35
Minutes)
Take Video Quiz
1.3 in Blackboard’s Course Content (1 point) (unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
1.4 We Are Still Learning About the Natural World (two videos)
a. New Video: Skepticism and Denialism
Video: CO 104Na (5:31 Minutes)
b. New
Video: Fact,
Hypothesis, Law, and Theory
Video: CO 104Nb (4:04
Minutes)
c. Old
Video: Science is the Way to Understand
the Universe
Video #CO104a (13:21 Minutes):
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/iqcbrqp7
Take Video
Quiz 1.4 in Blackboard’s Course Content (2.5 points) (unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
1.5 Chemistry Is Integral to Our Lives (two videos)
a. Chemistry is
the Study of Matter
Video 101a (2:27 Minutes)
Mobile/Cell Phone link: http://bcove.me/96aluvle
b. Journey
to the ACS Meeting
Video #CO105a (5:26
minutes)
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/u7h3x0as
Take
Video Quiz 1.5 in Blackboard’s Course Content (1.5 points) (unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
1.6 Scientists Measure Physical Quantities (Four Videos on page)
a. Scientific Notation (Appendix A)
Video #CO106b
(7:31 Minutes);
Mobile/Cell Phone Link:
http://bcove.me/0p5ffj0f
b.
Accuracy and Precision: Scientific Figures
(Appendix B)
Video #CO106c
(8:04 Minutes)
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/xlhukfnu
c. Unit Conversion (Introduction to Dimensional
Analysis)
Video # CO106a
(5:26 Minutes)
Mobile/Cell
Phone Link: http://bcove.me/anfsogbq
Web Site:
Dimensional Analysis(Many worked examples)
http://www.lsua.info/chem1001/dimanalysis/unitanalysisIntro.htm
d. New Video: Metric
Prefixes
Video # CO106Nd3 (7:10 minutes)
Mobile/Cell Phone Link: http://bcove.me/bnei9533
Take Video Quiz 1.6 in Blackboard’s Course Content (3 points)
(unlimited attempts)
or Conceptual Academy (1.5 points) (one
attempt)
3. Complete Online exams/tests under Blackboard’s Course Content ~29 points
a. Video/Reading Quizzes 6: (2+2+1+2.5+ 1.5+ 3) totaling 12 points (includes bonus)
b. Chapter 1 Multiple Choice Exams 2 (10+3) total
13 points
18
questions worth 10 point total. Chapter 1 Measurement
Questions:
Part A: Significant Figures
Part B: Math with Significant Figures
Part C. Scientific Notation
Part D. Metric System & Metric Prefixes
Part E. Metric system Equivalences
Part F. Unit Analysis/Dimensional Analysis
6 Questions covering the Scientific Method; total 3 points
Part S: Scientific Method
c. Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz (Fill-in-the-Blank) 11 words total 4 points
. 4. During your study of Chapter 1,
please review the required
Project #1:
The Scientific Method
Objective Quantative Reason Form
Quantative Reason Grading Rubric
Andromeda Strain Movie Notes
5. During the study of Chapter 1
Section 1.6 (Measurement) begin the second required project #2:
Measurement via Gasoline Project
a. Gasoline Demand Project Directions
Download WORD .doc file: Project2GasolineDemandProject.doc
b. Gasoline Demand Project Projections
Download WORD .doc file: Project2GasolineDemandProjections.doc
c. Throw Away Car Philosophy
Download WORD .doc file: Project2MyThrowAwayCar.doc
d. Sample Gasoline Project Data Presentation
Download WORD .doc file: SampleGasolineProjectDataPresentation.doc
e. Professor Taylor's Gasoline
Project Raw Data Collection (without calculations or presentation)
6. (optional) Before many of you were born and before everyone had access
to the Internet PBS made a television series to teach chemistry with 26 videos,
each 28:30 minutes (1989). In the 1990s students took this CHM 1020 course
using a textbook title “the World of Chemistry”. Watched these films on the
FCCJ cable channel and, then had to go to campus to take a couple of exams
during the term.
This was the first good attempt at self
study for a distant learner. Of course, the distant learner could rent the
videos (about $100 1990s dollars) or buy the series ($400 1990s dollars) or go
to campus to watch these films in the library on VHS tape (before DVDs).
I purchased the series so that I could show about 8 of the broadcasts while
teaching traditional on campus classes. I still sometime show some of the films
(transferred to DVD) in class on campus
.
PBS and the Annenberg Corporation
spent three million 1980s dollars to make these films. About 2010 PBS release
the films on the Internet. They are great films. The chemistry has not changed.
Of course, the styles were 1980s, the technology was 1980s, and no one had the
modern Internet.
Go to
PBS World of Chemistry Video
Watch
Episodes (all 26 video links are on this web page):
#1: The World Of Chemistry
#2: Color
#3: Measurement
John Suchocki created over 150 videos without the help of Pierson Publishing to teach the distant learner with his first four editions of Conceptual Chemistry. He spent ten years making these films.
You had to buy the book to use the videos.
It wasn’t until late 2014 and the 5th edition that his videos were released to all my students and me free to view on the Internet via Conceptual Academy links.
John only released 39 of his plus 180 videos for Pierson to use with the textbook in their Mastering Chemistry Program (Path #1). I have embedded most of the remaining plus 100 videos into the 17 chapters mastering assignments.
For our students beginning in the Fall 2016, if you purchase
a used 4th or 5th edition, rent a 5th edition, or buy the paperback new or used 5th edition, Pathway 3 is free for you to
complete the course content.
This self study course is based on all 15 chapters of video that have been completed.
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