New Book 'Chemistry Through Inquiry' offers Investigative Experiments

Vernier Software & Technology has announced the release of their new lab book, Investigating Chemistry Through Inquiry.  The new book is aimed at helping students in high school and college think critically about chemistry experiments, while providing educators with easy-to-use labs.

Authors Donald L. Volz and Ray Smola provide strong emphasis on investigation and uniquely provide direction for both open and guided inquiry, methods they both use as chemistry instructors.  The new book includes 25 inquiry-based chemistry experiments that consist of a preliminary activity, teacher information, sample research questions, and sample data for those research questions.

Each experiment in the book is based on recommendations from the National Research Council report, “Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools” (2002), and from leading inquiry-based learning experts.

The book’s table of contents lists the different labs by topic area so that teachers can quickly reference the experiments they wish to use in instruction. Educators can also access a free sample lab online that focuses on evaporation and intermolecular attractions in alkaline and alcohols.

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