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ERIC Number: EJ1441724
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-May
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
EISSN: EISSN-1938-1328
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Online Orbital Explorer and BingOrbital Game for Inquiry-Based Activities
Xiao Li; Marc Mun~iz; Karlun Chun; Jonathan Tai; Francesca Guerra; Darrin M. York
Journal of Chemical Education, v99 n5 p2135-2142 2022
We report a new online suite of tools that enables inquiry-based active-learning activities to develop students' representational competence about atomic orbitals. Orbital Explorer is a Web site for the visualization and interactive investigation of atomic orbital properties. Orbital Explorer contains two integrated tools, namely, Atomic Orbital Explorer, which enables one to visualize and interrogate individual atomic orbitals, and Orbital RDF Comparison, which enables one to make a more detailed quantitative comparison of orbital energies and properties of orbital radial distribution functions (RDFs). In addition, we present an original chemistry educational gamification design, BingOrbital, constructed in a format resembling Bingo (American version). The game aims to reinforce the recognition of atomic orbitals based on the RDF and three-dimensional isosurface and has been applied as an engaging retrieval practice tool. A companion set of example activities that use the Orbital Explorer and BingOrbital game have been presented in another article.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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