In this video, Catherine Drennan discusses the central role of Teaching Assistants in the course, and how she developed an application and training program to foster enthusiasm among incoming graduate students for teaching introductory chemistry.

In this video, Catherine Drennan explains how Pizza Forums create opportunities in this large lecture course to get to know students on a personal level and to learn what's working and what's not working well in the course.

In this video, Catherine Drennan explains how she uses humor to engage students and to help them remember curricular content.

In this video, Catherine Drennan explains how she uses clicker questions and demonstrations to promote active participation during lectures.

In this video, Catherine Drennan describes how introducing clicker competitions increased student effort and engagement in the course; it also seemed to foster a sense of community among students in this large lecture class.

In this video, Catherine Drennan shares how she prepares for lectures. She reviews note-taking handouts, plans the sequence of activities, develops demonstrations, and coordinates her t-shirts with lecture content to infuse the course with a sense of fun.

In this video, Catherine Drennan discusses how she spotlights contemporary chemists in the course as a way to communicate to students that chemistry is a modern subject that can be used to make the world a better place.

In this video, Catherine Drennan notes that 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science is a class in which students can discover their passion for chemistry, or plant the seeds for later understanding chemistry's central role in many fields.

Topics: Review of Course Material

Topics: Introduction to Catalysis; Types of Catalysts; Catalysts of Life and Enzyme Catalysis

Topics: Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rates; The Reaction Coordinate and the Activation Complex

Topics: Investigating Reaction Mechanisms

Topics: Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactive Decay; Chemical Kinetics: Second Order Integrated Rate Laws, Relationship Between k and K, Elementary Steps and Molecularity

Topics: Introduction to Kinetics: Rates of Chemical Reactions, Rate Expressions and Rate Laws

Topics: Spectrochemical Series: Geometry Makes a Difference; Crystal Field Theory: Tetrahedral Case; Crystal Field Theory: Square Planar Case; Other Geometries and Applications

Topics: Introduction to Crystal Field Theory; Crystal Field Theory: Octahedral Case; Spectrochemical Series: the Ligand to the Metal Matters

Topics: d-Block Metals or Transition Metals; Coordination Complexes (Chelate Effect, Shapes, Isomers); d-Orbital Counting and d-Orbitals

Topics: Relationship between Cell Potential and Gibbs Free Energy; Meaning of Standard Reduction Potentials; Nernst Equation

Topics: Acid-Base Titrations: Titration of Weak Acid with Strong Base (cont.)

Topics: Introduction to Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Reactions; Balancing Redox Reactions; Electrochemical Cells

Topics: Acid-Base Titrations: Titration of Strong Acids and Strong Bases, Titration of Weak Acids / Strong Bases & Strong Acids / Weak Bases

A buffer helps to maintain a constantTopics: pH of Salt Solutions; Buffers!