AP Course:

AP CHEMISTRY

CONSULTANT: Thomas Greenbowe

Tom Greenbowe is an Emeritus Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of Oregon and a Morrill Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Iowa State University. Greenbowe taught in the general chemistry program at UO for ten years.

Prior to his move to Oregon he worked in the ISU general chemistry program for 25 years and was the Coordinator of General Chemistry. In his career, Tom has taught 250,000 students. Tom has been involved with the AP Chemistry program and the College Board since 2007. Tom has served as a Table Leader and Question Leader for the AP Chemistry Exam from 2008 to 2024. Tom was appointed to AP Chemistry Test Development Committee from 2008 to 2012. In 2012 and in 2019 Tom attended AP Chemistry Professional Development Workshops that provided training and materials focusing on the new AP Chemistry framework and curriculum and the use of guided-inquiry pedagogy in the classroom. Tom has served as an AP Chemistry consultant since 2010. Tom also served on several American Chemical Society DivCHED General Chemistry ExaminationCommittees.

Throughout his teaching career Tom has incorporated a variety of active learning pedagogies and technology in his instructional units. In 2005, Tom Greenbowe and Profs.

John Gelder from Oklahoma State University and Michael Abraham from the University of Oklahoma received an NSF grant for a technology project that provided activities before class, during class and after class using a learning cycle design to help student betterunderstand introductory chemistry content (http://genchem1.chem.okstate.edu/BDA/Topics.php). Participants in this workshop will have access to an APSI web site that includes homework assignments (with answers), sample examinations (with answers) and additional activities that can be incorporated into the classroom, as well as access to the GAG (Gelder-Abraham-Greenbowe) computer

simulations URLs.

Tom Greenbowe and John Gelder worked with the ACS AACT to develop and produce an update to the “Metals and Metal Ions Activity” (aka Activity Series of Metals), and two electrochemical cells “Galvanic Cells” computer simulations in CSS/JAVA/HTM5. These simulations are currently being used by over 5,000 chemistry teachers. Tom Greenbowe has been recognized for his contributions to the teaching and learning of chemistry through several awards.

Course Description:

Professor Thomas J. Greenbowe, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 tgreenbo@uoregon.edu Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010 tgreenbo@iastate.edu

Welcome to the AP® Chemistry Summer Workshop as presented by Professor Tom Greenbowe.

One goal of the workshop is to provide each participant an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how the AP® Chemistry big ideas, science practices and learning objectives govern the AP Chemistry curriculum and the AP Chemistry Test. Participants will experience doing guided inquiry classroom activities, interactive demonstrations, and guided-inquiry chemistry laboratory experiments. Each of these activities is designed to prepares students to understand specific chemistry concepts and principles so that the students will be able to solve the problems on the APChem Test. A second goal is to provide each participant with multiple instructional resources to draw upon during the school year. A third goal is for each participant to develop four instructional units he or she can use in their AP Chemistry course.

Participants are encouraged to bring three existing classroom lessons, a demonstration, and three laboratory activities to share and to refine. Participants will work through six sample classroom activities using the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) approach. We will work in teams to revise existing AP Chem classroom activities by incorporating (POGIL) principles. We will also modify POGIL activities by incorporating computer simulations and animations developed by John Gelder (Oklahoma State University), Mike Abraham (University of Oklahoma), and Tom Greenbowe (University of Oregon). Sample URL:

https://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/bc_0media_chem/chem_sim/calorimetry/Calor.php

Participants will learn about the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) and how it supports both students and teaches doing guided-inquiry laboratory experiments. For each laboratory activity participants will construct a ‘Question of the Day’ (a research question), design an experiment to answer the question, write claims and evidence statements and write an effective discussion about the experiment. Participants will work through five or six laboratory experiments.

Participants will be provided with the latest AP® Chemistry Workshop Handbook and with webbased access to a variety of preparatory materials for the AP® Chemistry course. Participants will “read” (score) sample student work from the free-response questions from the 2025 AP® Chem Test. We will review the test statistics for the 2024 and 2025 AP® Chem Tests. As a group, we will explore the topics students exhibited difficulty understanding on the 2020-2024 AP® Chem Tests.

Topics of discussion include the Photoelectric Effect, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Mass Spectroscopy, Thermochemistry (calorimetry), Chemical Bonding, Intermolecular Forces, Equilibrium, Kinetics, Acid-Base Equilibria, Thermodynamics (DH, DS, DG), Electrochemistry, Structures in Organic Chemistry, and Modern Materials. Participants will learn strategies for helping students to understand what level of response is needed on the AP Chem Test with respect to writing effective justifications and explanations.