Teaching Lab Report Writing through Inquiry:A Green Chemistry Stoichiometry Experiment for General Chemistry

摘要

We present a novel experiment suitable for advanced placement high school chemistry or first-year undergraduate chemistry.This experiment has four key features:students utilize stoichiometry,learn and apply principles of green chemistry,engage in authentic scientific inquiry that promotes optimal science learning,and discover why each part of a scientific lab report is necessary.Stoichiometry,the study of amounts of reactants and products in chemical reactions,is an important topic in general chemistry.It is standard practice to include a stoichiometry experiment in general chemistry laboratory programs.Many excellent stoichiometry experiments have previously been described (1-6); however,none in the literature combine all of the features present in this experiment.