Experimenting with At-Home General Chemistry Laboratories During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Jessica L. Andrews ^[1] ; Juan Pablo de Los Rios ^[1] ; Mythreyi Rayaluru ^[1] ; Seungwon Lee ^[1] ; Lilly Mai ^[1] ; Anna Schusser ^[1] ; Chi H. Mak ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Southern California

     University of Southern California

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 97, Nº 7, 2020, págs. 1887-1894
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, an at-home laboratory program was created and implemented for a section of the general chemistry course at the University of Southern California. The experiments were designed to only utilize safe household items and no special equipment. These laboratory activities, spanning over 4 weeks, focused on concepts usually covered in the final one-third of our second-semester chemistry laboratory, including pH, acid–base titrations, buffers, solubility, phase equilibria, and thermodynamics. In this article, we describe the design of the laboratories and our experience with this experiment, while also providing an assessment on how similar activities could be integrated profitably into a regular general chemistry course.