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 Sofa Bed Sectional students according to the proposed topics by the LP-IBL junction, and the chemistry of a number of metals has been studied.Qualitative data were collected from written reports, oral presentations, lab-notebook reviews and personal GUM COOLMINT 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 and application abilities were revealed by the students throughout the experimental course.