STEAM+ Brown Bag Series

We are excited to announce we are hosting another hybrid STEAM+ brownbag event in March.

On this occasion, presenters Shauna Schechtel and Steven Ganescu, from the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University, will talk about their research titled "Reimagining what undergraduate chemistry education could be".

Chemistry poses a unique environment in which students learn. For example, laboratory learning is chemistry’s signature pedagogy and is a requirement for the accreditation of undergraduate chemistry programs. Additionally, chemistry students encounter a wide array of representations that they are not exposed to prior to taking a chemistry class. This unique environment contextualizes how students learn and experience chemistry. It is therefore important to understand how these experiences might inform the innovation of curriculum and teaching.

They will present findings from two complementary studies that investigated the ways in which chemistry education could be reimagined. Specifically, the studies sought to answer:

• What is it like for a student to experience a chemistry laboratory learning environment?
• How might prompting students to create their own representations of chemistry help them explore chemical concepts?

Join us for this event either online or in person at the Faculty of Education Library.

Please register for this event.