ReadMe (electron configuration) ***Instructors ONLY***

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Description

This module contains educational content and learning activities designed to engage students to practice writing electron activity and learn periodic trends. When learning with this module, students will make use of an external website called Orbital Explorer Links to an external site. our team build to complete a series of active learning activities. 

 

How to Cite

This module is part of the published work of

Xiao Li, Marc N. Muniz, Karlun Chun, Jonathan Tai, Darrin M. York, “Inquiry-Based Activities and Games that Engage Students in Learning Atomic Orbital“, Journal of Chemical Education. (in submission)

 

Instructions of Using this Module in Your Course

  1. This is an openly accessible module shared by Rutgers eLearning on Canvas Commons Links to an external site., and can be searched and found by its Module Name "Learning Activities: Electron Configuration & Periodic Trends". Make sure you remove any restriction (e.g. institution) before searching.
  2. This module contains learning activities designed to engage but not limited to undergraduate students in General Chemistry course to learn electron configuration and periodic trends. 
  3. You could preview Links to an external site. this module to get an idea of its content. 
  4. Once you decided to adopt and use this module to teach in your class, you could import Links to an external site. it to your course. Follow Canvas guide in how to import a Commons resource in Canvas (here's the link Links to an external site. of how to import a module from Commons again)
    • Some components of this module are developed for instructors only and should NOT be published to students, for example, this ReadMe page, make sure you unpublish such components when importing the module to a published course site. Be cautious when publishing content marked as "Instructors ONLY" unless you do mean to publish it, for example, the key. 
    • We also provided you a full record of how the activities were implemented on Canvas in 2019 (in-class instruction) and 2020 (remote-instruction due to COVID19) in Rutgers Honors General Chemistry courses, but we recommend using the most updated material we prepared for 2021 Fall semester. 
    • If you imported our module and like our work, please give us a star on Commons. 
    • If you have further questions about the module please contact James Chun (jchun@rutgers.edu) or Darrin York (Darrin.York@rutgers.edu).