Title

Interlocking Toy Building Blocks as Modules for Undergraduate Introductory and General Chemistry Classroom Teaching

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Publication Title

Journal of Chemical Education

DOI

10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00001

Keywords

Acids/Bases, Covalent Bonding, Curriculum, First-Year Undergraduate/General, General Public, High School/Introductory Chemistry, Multimedia-Based Learning, Thermodynamics

Abstract

Interlocking toy building blocks (e.g., Lego) as chemistry teaching modules are presented. Interlocking building blocks were assembled on a baseplate to depict chemistry concepts of Lewis structures, chemical bonding, conjugate acid-base pairs, types of chemical reactions, irregularity in ionization energy trends, and the decay of a radioactive isotope. The modules were presented to visualize these chemical concepts in undergraduate introductory and general chemistry classrooms. Modules were presented on a document camera in an online mode of delivery.

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