Foundations of Chemistry

“The emerging consensus among educators is that students need early, engaging experiences in the lab — and much more mentoring than most of them receive now — to maintain their interest and inspire them to take up careers in the sciences.”  NYTimes article, How to Educate Young Scientists, July 3, 2006.

Dave Hanson’s Foundations of Chemistry provides many engaging experiences, 75 in all, for the general chemistry student. 
 

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Topics

View topics included in Foundations of Chemistry.
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As a special incentive, Pacific Crest, publisher of Foundations of Chemistry, is offering high schools the opportunity to purchase a site license for their school. The cost of this site license is only $300 and allows you to duplicate all 75 activities from an electronic version of the book. Best of all, the site license is valid for the life of the current edition.

• The POGIL Instructor’s Guide can help you more easily make the transition to a POGIL based classroom.

• An Instructor’s Guide for Foundations of Chemistry will be available in the Fall of 2006.

• The Faculty Guidebook contains the module, "Introduction to POGIL". Click to view this module in HTML format.

• A free, on-site workshop can be scheduled to maximize the effective implementation of Foundations of Chemistry, if a large-scale adoption is made by your college.