Laboratory projects using inquiry-based learning: an application to a practical inorganic course

Laboratory projects using inquiry-based learning: an application to a practical inorganic course

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This paper reports how laboratory projects (LP) coupled to inquiry-based learning (IBL) were implemented in a practical inorganic chemistry course.Several coordination compounds have been successfully synthesised by students according to the proposed topics by the LP-IBL junction, and the chemistry Outdoor Dining Table of a number of metals has been studied.Qualitative data were collected from written reports, oral presentations, lab-notebook reviews and personal discussions with the students through an experimental course with undergraduate second-year students at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia during the last 5 years.

Positive skills production was observed by combining LP and IBL.Conceptual, practical, interpretational, constructional (questions, explanations, hypotheses), communicational, environmental Wooden Shape Sorting and application abilities were revealed by the students throughout the experimental course.