The ChemActivities found in Introductory Chemistry:A Guided Inquiry use the classroom guided inquiry approach and provide an excellent accompaniment to any one semester Introductory text. Designed to support Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), these materials provide a variety of ways to promote a student-focused, active classroom that range from cooperative learning to active student participation in a more traditional setting.

Michael P. Garoutte received his B.S. in Chemistry from Missouri Southern State College in 1989, and his Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in 1995. His doctoral work was done under the supervision of Richard Schowen, and involved mechanistic studies of proton transfer in serine proteases. After a year teaching at Mercer University and a year at the University of Central Oklahoma, Garoutte took a position at his alma mater in 1997. He teaches a one-semester general-organic-biological chemistry course, organic chemistry, instrumental analysis, and computer applications in chemistry, and directs student research. After being introduced to Calibrated Peer Review at UCLA in 2001, Garoutte served as a facilitator for CPR and the Molecular Science project at several Multi-Initiative Dissemination Project workshops. The overwhelming community of support for curriculum reform in chemistry at these workshops encouraged him to adopt POGIL in his allied health and organic chemistry courses. He developed a set of POGIL-like guided-inquiry activities for the allied health chemistry course, published in 2007 and continues to be active in the project.

ChemActivity 1      3

Working in Teams; Estimation      3

ChemActivity 2      4

Types of Matter; Chemical and Physical Changes      4

ChemActivity 3      9

Atoms and the Periodic Table      9

ChemActivity 4      14

Unit Conversions: Metric System      14

ChemActivity 5      20

Measurements and Significant Figures      20

ChemActivity 6      25

Density and Temperature      25

ChemActivity 7      29

Atomic Number and Atomic Mass      29

ChemActivity 8      34

Nuclear Chemistry      34

ChemActivity 9      40

Electron Arrangement      40

ChemActivity 10A      44

Valence Electrons      44

ChemActivity 10B      46

Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table      46

ChemActivity 11      50

Ions and Ionic Compounds      50

ChemActivity 12      54

Naming Ionic Compounds      54

ChemActivity 13      57

Covalent Bonds      57

ChemActivity 14      63

Electrolytes, Acids, and Bases      63

ChemActivity 15      67

Naming Binary Molecules, Acids, and Bases      67

ChemActivity 16      70

Molecular Shapes      70

ChemActivity 17      78

Polar and Nonpolar Covalent Bonds      78

ChemActivity 18      83

The Mole Concept      83

ChemActivity 19      87

Balancing Chemical Equations      87

ChemActivity 20A      90

Stoichiometry      90

ChemActivity 20B      93

Limiting Reagent.       93

ChemActivity 21      98

Predicting Binary Reactions      98

ChemActivity 22      102

Oxidation-Reduction Reactions       102

ChemActivity 23A      106

Equilibrium      106

ChemActivity 23B      111

Le Chatelier’s Principle      111

ChemActivity 24      114

Changes of State      114

ChemActivity 25      119

Rates and Energies of Reactions      119

ChemActivity 26      124

Gases      124

ChemActivity 27      129

Intermolecular Forces      129

ChemActivity 28      136

Solutions and Concentration      136

ChemActivity 29A      140

Hypotonic and Hypertonic Solutions      140

ChemActivity 29B      144

Colligative Properties      144

ChemActivity 30A      147

Acids and Bases      147

ChemActivity 30B      151

pH      151

ChemActivity 30C      154

Acidity Constant (K_a)       154

ChemActivity 31A      157

Buffers      157

ChemActivity 31B      160

Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation      160

ChemActivity 32      165

Titrations      165