Marian DeWane taught AP Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Environmental Science and AP Physics in Boise, Idaho for 30 years. She has been recognized as Teacher of the Year and has her National Board Certification.
In 2009, Dr. DeWane won the Presidential Science Teaching Award from President Obama. Dr. DeWane has been involved with the College Board for 15 years as a consultant. She is involved in the grading of the AP Exam and has been a Question Leader for four years, a Table Leader for seven years, a Reader for six years, and a Workshop Leader for five years. She has been a National Leadership Trainer, a consultant mentor, workshop writer for the new AP curriculum changes, and question writer for the new exam. Her teaching focuses on active learning, inquiry-based learning, and working on empowering students.
Course Description Part 1
Welcome to the AP® Chemistry Summer Workshop as presented by Marian DeWane and Tom Greenbowe. One goal of the workshop is to provide each participant an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how the AP® Chemistry topics and learning objectives govern the AP Chemistry curriculum and the AP Chemistry Test. Chemistry content topics planned for discussion include: Stoichiometry, Thermochemistry (calorimetry), Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Maxwell-Boltzman Distribution, Intermolecular Forces, Kinetics, Acid-Base Equilibria, Energetics of Solution Formation, Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry (Galvanic and Electrolytic Cells). Other topics can be substituted depending on the needs of the participants. Participants will work through five laboratory experiments using a combination of two guided-inquiry approaches: the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) and Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL).
Participants will learn about the SWH and how it supports both students and teachers doing guided-inquiry laboratory experiments. For each laboratory activity participants will construct a ‘Research Question’ and design an experiment to answer the question, write claims and evidence statements and write an effective discussion about the experiment.
Why attend an in-person APSI? Meaningful discussions and collaborations! Opportunities to do hands-on activities and laboratory experiments.
Participants will experience doing guided-inquiry classroom activities, interactive demonstrations, and incorporating computer simulation and animations in their presentations. We will also modify POGIL activities by incorporating computer simulations and animations developed by John Gelder (Oklahoma State University), Mike Abraham (University of Oklahoma), and Tom Greenbowe (University of Oregon). Sample URL:
https://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/bc_0media_chem/chem_sim/calorimetry/Calor.php
Calorimetry computer simulation dissolving lithium chloride in water. The calorimetry computer simulation provides a temperature versus time graph and an animation of the dissolving process at the particle level of representation.
AP Chemistry teachers perform calorimetry experiments of dissolving various salts in water. The teachers pool data, observe trends, and determination the thermal energy transferred and determine the change in enthalpy for dissolving different salts in water. This is why we do hands-on calorimetry experiments.
Having your students do a calorimetry experiment helps students gain a better understanding of the transfer of energy and leads to a good score on calorimetry free-response questions (or a multiple-choice questions) on an AP Chemistry Test.
Interactive activities are designed to prepare your students to understand specific chemistry concepts and principles so that the students will be able to solve the problems on the APChem Test. This workshop will provide each participant with instructional resources to draw upon during the school year. Each participant will develop two instructional units for use in their AP Chemistry course.
