“Hello, I’m Carbon.”:: Writing about Elements and Compounds

• Roland P. Stout ^[1]
  1. [1] University of North Carolina−Pembroke
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 87, Nº 11 (November), 2010, págs. 1163-1165
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • General chemistry students are asked to assume the identity of an element and to write their own story. In the spirit of pedagogical approaches such as writing-to-learn and writing across the curriculum, this assignment has several objectives, most significantly to connect students to the discipline of chemistry in a robust way. Facilitating this process writing assignment and evaluating it using a three-dimensional grading rubric are discussed. Suggestions of how to convince students to write a story rather than a report and summaries of four student autobiographies are given.