TY - JOUR A1 - Gräb, Patrick A1 - Geidel, Ekkehard T1 - Spectroscopic studies of food colorings JF - World Journal of Chemical Education N2 - In chemical education, it is often a challenge to understand the basic principles of spectroscopic techniques due to missing connections to the real world. Therefore, the present contribution offers context-based applications of UV/Vis spectroscopy for analytics of food colorings with which learners can improve their skills regarding this method. The spectroscopic determination of food colorings seems to be a promising approach due to the long tradition and omnipresence of dyes in supermarket products. The therefor-required spectral data for commonly used dyes are provided for educational usage. Qualitative and quantitative analytics of food colorings in four different lemonades and chocolate beans have been used to introduce learners to important analytical techniques like sample preparation or elimination of confounding factors. These analytics also display the limitations of the method in the visible range of light in the case of tartrazine and curcumin. By applying Lambert-Beer-Bouguer’s Law in different variations, typical calculations of concentrations can be studied in quantitative analyses. The studied food samples demonstrate the different usage of food colorings depending on the country of sale. Finally, a 3D-printable low-cost photometer suitable for the discussed quantitative analytics in educational contexts is presented. KW - UV/Vis spectroscopy KW - quantitative analysis KW - food colorings KW - context-based teaching KW - low-cost photometer Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-201908 VL - 7 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Emmert, Marcel A1 - Heß, Konrad A1 - Gräb, Patrick A1 - Geidel, Ekkehard T1 - Experiments to Introduce Students into the Temperature Dependence of the Reaction Rate JF - World Journal of Chemical Education N2 - It is a challenge in chemical education to understand basic principles of chemical reaction kinetics on an experimental basis because of the relatively extensive experimental setup and the often time-consuming measurement series. This contribution offers an introduction into the field of the temperature dependence of reaction rate with easy-to-use experiments. Data logging systems have been used to get sufficient data-sets to evaluate different measurements in reaction kinetics. Several experiments were designed for practical courses in chemistry, which allow students to derive the simple van‘t Hoff rule on the one hand. On the other hand, the Arrhenius equation can only be derived on the basis of experimental data with the help of information from collision theory and Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. KW - temperature dependence of reaction rate KW - van‘t Hoff rule KW - Arrhenius equation KW - ow-cost photometer Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-229993 VL - 8 IS - 2 ER - TY - THES A1 - Gräb, Patrick T1 - Physikalisch-chemische Methoden und Experimente für Unterricht und Lehramtsstudium T1 - Physico-chemical Methods and Experiments in the Context of Chemical Education N2 - Die Lehre von physikalisch-chemischen Inhalten in der universitären Lehramtsausbildung und im gymnasialen Chemieunterricht ist herausfordernd. Mögliche Ursachen hierfür sind das teils hohe Abstraktionsniveau und fehlende Messgeräte. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden kostengünstige Messgeräte entwickelt, mit denen Lernende in typische physikochemische Methoden und deren Anwendungen experimentell eingeführt werden können. Durch offen gestaltete und kontextbezogene Experimente zu Themenfeldern der Spektroskopie, Thermodynamik und Kinetik sollen Lernende einen phänomenologischen Zugang zur physikalischen Chemie finden. Durch eine entsprechende didaktische und experimentelle Aufarbeitung der Konzepte sollen insbesondere Schülerinnen und Schüler ohne größeres Vorwissen für physikalisch-chemische Inhalte im Sinne eines modernen und experimentell orientierten Chemieunterrichts begeistert werden. N2 - Creating an understanding for physical chemistry is one of the most demanding challenges in chemical education on university and secondary school level. Possible causes are the high level of abstraction and the lack of measuring devices. In this contribution, inexpensive measuring devices were designed and developed with which learners can be introduced to typical physico-chemical methods and their applications. Openly designed and context-related experiments on the topics of spectroscopy, thermodynamics, and kinetics allow learners to get a phenomenological approach to physical chemistry. Appropriate didactic and experimental processing of the concepts is intended to inspire especially secondary school students with no prior knowledge of physical chemistry in the sense of modern and experimental chemistry lessons. KW - Hochschule KW - Chemieunterricht KW - Physikalische Chemie KW - Messwerterfassung KW - Lehre KW - low-cost Sensoren KW - kontextorientierte Experimente KW - Lebensweltbezug KW - Mikrocontroller KW - Einplatinencomputer KW - Spektroskopie KW - Thermodynamik KW - Kinetik KW - Chemiedidaktik KW - Hochschullehre Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-247636 ER -