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Two Year College Community of Practice

The 2025 2YC Community of Practice (CoP) is a cohort of faculty members from two year colleges that are interested in developing, improving, and implementing active learning techniques in their courses.听

The 3-month program consists of monthly virtual gatherings (60-75 minutes on Friday) from September to November. Participants will learn how integrate green chemistry and active learning techniques into online or hybrid courses. They will also learn about alternative grading methods.

10 faculty member participants听will receive a $3,000 stipend for attending all three sessions and producing active learning modules for online or hybrid courses to be shared with the broader two-year college faculty community.听

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will be accepted from May 1st through August 1st.

Tentative Schedule of Events - 2025

September


Introduction

Program goals
Teaching Module information
Green Chemistry principles

October


Low-Barrier Active Learning

Formative assessments
Checklists and surveys
Metacognition and reflection

November


Alternative Assessments

Specifications grading
Contract grading
Ungrading

Teaching Modules Developed by the 2024 CoP Cohort

These active learning modules were developed by the 2024 Community of Practice cohort, which consisted of 16 faculty members from two-year colleges. The modules center the adjunct instructor and are approximately 150 minutes of instruction. They include annotated instructor notes, power point slides, worked out examples, and guidance on incorporating active learning. They are free to use. To edit the materials, please download a copy of the file.

General Chemistry Modules

  • Nomenclature: Ionic & Covalent Compounds

    Author: Dana Perry, Glendale Community College

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Recognize compounds as ionic or covalent
    • Specify symbols and charges for monatomic and polyatomic ions
    • Determine formulas for ionic compounds based on charges
    • Write names for ionic compounds, including fixed and variable charge cations
    • Write names and formulas for covalent compounds based on subscripts and prefixes.


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Just in time teaching
    • Memory matrix
    • Think, pair, share


    Materials:

    • OER Resources
  • Density & Physical Properties

    Author: Scott Donnelly, Western Arizona University

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Identify elements deemed as critical minerals based on their periodic table location;
    • Interpret density versus atomic number vertical bar graphs;
    • Identify an unknown metal based on mass and volume graphs; and
    • Understand density from a conceptual (= non plug-and-chug into an equation) perspective


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Think, Pair, Compare


    Materials:

    • Small, hand-held whiteboards, markers, rags to clean whiteboard
  • Acidic, Basic, and Neutral Salts

    Author: Christina Clark, Glendale Community College

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Define neutral, acidic, and basic salts.
    • Analyze how the properties of a salt are influenced by its parent acid and parent base.
    • Write a dissolution equation for a salt and analyze the cation and anion of a salt.
    • Categorize salts as acidic, basic, or neutral and predict pH of solutions containing a salt.
    • Write hydrolysis reactions for acidic and basic salts.


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Jigsaw
    • 3-2-1 Reflection


    Materials:

    • 听and annotated slides
    • OER Resources
      • Appendix links for and data
  • Kinetics

    Author: Lisa Crawford, Calhoun Community College

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Define reaction rate.
    • Derive rate expressions from the balanced equation for a given chemical reaction.
    • Describe the factors that affect chemical reaction rates.
    • Use the postulates of collision theory to explain the effects of physical state, temperature, and concentration on reaction rates
    • Explain the form and function of a rate law
    • Use rate laws to calculate reaction rates
    • Use rate and concentration data to identify reaction orders and derive rate laws
    • Define the concepts of activation energy and transition state
    • Use the Arrhenius equation in calculations relating rate constants to temperature


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Jigsaw
    • Think, pair, share


    Materials:

    • OpenStax, Chemistry 2e
      • Sections 12.1-12.3 and 12.5

  • Bronsted-Lowrey Model for Acids and Bases

    Author: Phil Root, Scottsdale Community College听

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Observe differences in conductivity and litmus tests for acidic, basic, and neutral solutions.
    • Identify the proton thief (base), proton victim (acid), conjugate acid and conjugate base in a given chemical equation.
    • Describe base and acid strength in terms of the extent to which they react with water (compete for H1+ ions).
    • Account for differences between acids and bases in terms of the Arrhenius and Bronsted-Lowry models.


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning)


    Materials:

    • OER Resources
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  • Limiting Reagents

    Author: Frankie Wood-Black,听 Northern Oklahoma College听

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Students will be able to define limiting and excess reactants.
    • Students will be able to predict the theoretical yield of a reaction based on the limiting reactant.
    • Students will be able to use the PhET simulation to visualize and explore limiting reactant concepts.
    • Students will be able to apply limiting reactant concepts to real-world scenarios and problems.


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Interactive card game
    • PhET Simulations


    Materials:

    • to print听 听听

Organic Chemistry Modules

  • Organic Nomenclature: Alkynes, Aldehydes, Alcohols, Ketones, Thiols

    Author: Lance English

    Learning Goals
    Students will be able to:

    • Analyze the structural properties of alkynes
    • Name alkynes and their isomers
    • Determine the properties of alkynes using molecular orbital theory
    • Analyze reactions of alkynes in terms of Keq, stability, and possible transition states


    Active Learning Techniques:

    • Flipped classroom
    • Jigsaw听


    Materials:

    • OER Resources
      • OpenStax, , John McMurray听