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An InterActive General Chemistry Textbook

Chem21Labs has created a condensed interactive textbook that tracks the OpenStax™ Chemistry2e textbook. If students need additional information or explanation, they can visit the OpenStax™ site.

The Chem21Labs' Chemistry InterActive textbook is used in distance learning classes and contains the following activities and assignments:

  • Embedded activities - interactive graphs and animations that "give life" to the presented content. On some webpages, words on the page are  highlighted  at a specific place in the animation to create a strong visual connection.
  • Timed-Repetitive Quizzes - assignable flash cards that build and maintain a student's chemical database.
  • Tutorials - interactive assignments that build primary connections between the facts stored in the database.
  • Homework - assignments that use multi-step processes and higher order thinking skills. Homework problems build secondary connections.
  • Labs - assignments that add sensory connections.
    • Virtual labs - students perform labs that contain expensive or hazardous chemicals and specialized equipment. The virtual lab hovers over the lab report webpage . . . . data collected inside the virtual lab is entered on the webpage. Calculations based on the collected data are auto-graded . . . . students have 3 tries to enter the correct answer - feedback is given after each try.
    • Hybrid labs - assignments that contain a hands-on lab and a virtual lab. The hands-on lab uses generally regarded as safe (GRAS) household chemicals. Both the virtual part and the hands-on part are autograded as described above for virtual labs.
  • Chemistry jokes are sprinkled throughout the book to add a smile while learning. Here are a couple of favorites:
. . . . they make up everything
A Laboratory Retriever.

Laboratory Retriever picture
Every time life gave him lemons, he went into anaphylactic shock.

Chemist with Lemons picture