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Todays Chem 150 AgendaInstructor Ken Marr

• Before sitting down get a copy of the
  following...
• a.) Chem 150 course syllabus and skim through
  it.
• b.) Lab 1 Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen
• - Prelab questions and prelab prep due at start
  of class tomorrow.
• c.) Chemistry Lab Notebook Policy
• d.) ALE 1 The Wave Nature of Light
• - Due Friday
• Brief Introduction to Course
• Form Teams (you will work together both in class
  and lab)
• Team activity for today
• Start working on ALE 1
• Chemistry Concept Test (start today, finish as
  homework for Friday)

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From data collected at the National Training
Laboratories (NTL) Bethel, Maine, USA
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Why will Collaborative and Active Learning rather
than lecture be the primary means of instruction
in this Course?

• You dont really understand something until you
  can explain it to your grandmother (Albert
  Einstein)
• Much as we would like think that we as teachers
  can tell students what we have learned the
  evidence shows that we cannot transfer our
  knowledge ready-made into students minds.
  Students have to do the actual work of learning
  by actively making connections and organizing
  learning into meaningful concepts. When students
  are interacting with other students to clarify,
  explain, and understand, they are actively
  building their own minds. (from Collaborative
  Learning 101 by Patricia Cross)
• This course is structured such that you as
  students can teach and learn from others.

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Random formation of Groups

• Line up according to your birthdaypeople born in
  January towards the front of the room, those in
  December in the back of the room.
• Your instructor will then divide you into groups
• Groups will work together daily for the entire
  quarter