During the spring of 2015, I completed an internship working with Dr. Christen Smith at Madison College, a local technical school. The goal of my project was to design a new lab for the College Chemistry 1 course that would include real-world examples and increase student engagement. I wrote the new lab, guest taught the lab in two sections, and conducted extensive evaluation to assess the impact of the lab on student engagement. The lab was titled Measurement of Chloride in Local Water Samples and students used burets to conduct titrations that measured the amount of chloride in tap water, water from a local lake, and effluent from the local wastewater treatment plant. You can see the lab, as it was handed out to students, here.
Overall, the lab was a successful assignment for the students. During my internship, it was only taught in Dr. Smith's sections of College Chemistry 1, but it was added to the curriculum for the entire course in subsequent semesters.
Because of the large scope of this project, I have split my detailed explanations into 4 separate pages, linked below: